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PANAMA CITY

  The end of Day 15 was dinner. Only walked 2729 steps today. Day 16, and we are in Panama City. I think this is the Viking Mars, also in port.  After we arrive in Southampton, we fly to Amsterdam to catch The Viking Vali on a Christmas River Cruise to Budapest. Lunch today was another bowl of noodles, with a Margarita and glass of Merlot. Ending with a flan. As my  blog from way back in 2013 indicated , I know a couple who once lived in Hawaii.  Judy and John Collins might be the most famous people I know.  They founded the Ironman Triathlon.  I found a  Coronado article  on 2021 which provided a lot of information, and how the family was still active in the triathlon, or smaller versions of them. John was a Navy Seal and true athlete.  Judy might have been more competitive, for she was the first female to ever swim between two Hawaiian islands.  It was on Mother's Day in 1977 when she swam from Lanai to Maui.  Judy worked for me on a National Science Foundation program, Science f

STORY OF THE PANAMA CANAL

   At sea Day 15.  Lunch of oxtail stew. Bones. Raspberry sherbert and coconut ice cream cone. Tomorrow we arrive in Panama City, and on day 17 transit the Panama Canal.  So we went to the Theater to watch a 56-minute documentary released in 1987:    A Man, A Plan A Canal, Panama , a Nova program. While the French started this all in the 1880's, they failed for being too early.  The technology and science were on the verge of being being developed. When President Teddy Roosevelt became president in 1901, he took on this effort as his main crusade. The  Panama Canal made the U.S. a world power . Certainly, it is in the  top ten of all construction projects , along with the Great Pyramids of Ghiza, Great Wall of China, Machu Picchu, Taj Mahal, Hoover Dam and Eiffel Tower. The Story of the Panama Canal. What is it? 51-mile waterway in Panama connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Locks lift ships up to Gatun Lake, the  largest man-made lake, 85 feet above sea level. 52 million ga