trip down the canal

Here are the photos of our trip down the canal as we flew in on Friday. really nice, though cloudy in spots as you can see. great and thrilling to see the canal from end to end.

today the 4th we celebrated in El Valle, that will be another post. I am a day behind, but that is best I can do for now.






Bridge of the Americas and the Pan American highway -



cargo being loaded at west end -




Stephen with his future mother-in-law in our room at the Hotel. Fatima or Fa is such a fine and fun person to be with. Patt and I like her a lot and enjoy being with her very much. Stephen is once again -- a lucky guy.- and he knows it too.




the view from our "veranda" or whatever in front of our room -- replete with swim up bar under the thatch roof.




Our room is one of the middle ones just past the 3rd palm tree, - not so fancy, but nice location