took a cruise through the panama canal. Pretty memorable trip. I recommend it to anyone. The canal was only 1 day of the 10 day cruise. It was amazing seeing the container ships how much they hold, how huge they are, and realizing they are full of crap made in china that someone somewhere is buying. It was also pretty sweet coming out of the canal and seeing all the ships waiting to go through. The Canal is one way for so many hours at a time. So if you don't make it while it's open going your way you have to wait. The coolest part going through the locks, was I went down to the lowest deck and at one point I could have jumped over the rail fell about 8 feet and TADA I'm on a sidewalk in Panama. Awesome trip started in Acapulco, had 1 stop in mexico, nicaragua, costa rica, guatemala, went through the canal, stopped in cartagena columbia, aruba, and ended in puerto rico. Good way to get a sample of latin america. I would like to go back to costa rica and stay a week, and again in panama. Like the idea of retiring down there somewhere, but need to spend more time to make sure.
