Cruising Panama’s Canal by sunny lockwood
Love a good travel tale?
Cruise from San Francisco through the world’s most famous canal in the comfort of your reading chair.
Top Amazon reviewer, William Curnutt says this book “is inviting, funny, contagious, and just a flat out joy to read.
Excerpt from the Book
Sunny’s Take on the Transit
We jump up as soon as we get our 5 .m. wakeup call, dress and hurry down to Deck 4. Today is the only time that the ship’s crew opens the doors to the bow so that passengers can go outside for a close look as we move through the Canal. Scores of people who got up even earlier than we did crowd the hall ahead of us.
At 6 a.m. sharp the doors open and out we rush to stake our places along the rail. Sweetheart and I claim a very good spot on the starboard side. From here we can see every stage of our transit. behind us the sun turns the horizon golden. Great thunderheads rise pink, white and lemony yellow in the gray dawn sky. The sea behind us is calm as a mirror. It holds an array of freighters and tankers, waiting their turns to enter the Canal.
I’m surprised at how industrial the whole area is. All the old photos I’d seen made the Canal look like a watery path through the jungle, but here we are surrounded by cranes and cement and iron and cable. Metallic mules, men, rails and lights and bells. I could never have imagined such a busy place.
Yet, crowding close on either side is the jungle, a tumble of greenery.
I love standing at the rail, looking forward and aft, smelling the morning air. I just love it out here. It feels so free.
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