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Central America and Caribbean

Colon to Panama City

February 3, 2015 Leave a Comment

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All good things must come to an end. After 7 days on our boat the Sea Lion, we were at the end of our journey though Costa Rica and the Panama Canal. We started by exiting the canal (and our boat) at Colon, Panama and made our way to Panama City by land. Colon, Panama. Once […]

Filed Under: Destinations, Featured-City, Panama, Panama Canal, Panama City Tagged With: Atlantic Canal Observation Center, Bio Museum, Colon, Miraflores Museum

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

February 3, 2015 Leave a Comment

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After we got through the first set of locks on the Panama Canal at night, we anchored for the evening. Following a beautiful sunrise, we were pleased to learn that we would be making a visit to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI). This world-renowned research facility was created and operates a biological reserve on […]

Filed Under: Destinations, Featured-City, Panama Canal Tagged With: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Cruising the Panama Canal

February 25, 2015 Leave a Comment

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You might say that if you have been through one canal, you have been through them all. Yes, that’s true. But how many times do Americans get to go through something the size of the Panama Canal. That was our main purpose of taking a 7 day boat cruise on the 60-person Seal Lion run […]

Filed Under: Destinations, Featured-City, Panama Canal

Exploring the Wildlife In Panama

February 25, 2015 Leave a Comment

Panama’s Coiba National Park Continuing on our Costa Rica/Panama Canal cruise with Lindblad National Geographics, we left Costa Rica and entered into Panama and arrived in Panama’s Coiba National Park. This group of islands, once a penal colony to hold President Manuel Noriega’s political enemies, is now one of Panama’s newest national park. It is […]

Filed Under: Destinations, Featured-City, Panama, Panama Canal

Cruising through Costa Rica’s National Parks

September 11, 2016 Leave a Comment

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We are not cruise people. But we have been on some cruises when absolutely necessary to experience particular destinations. For example: Yangtze River in China, which we took while the Three Gorges Dam was still being built and we saw first hand China’s relocation of what would end up being 1.3 million people during the […]

Filed Under: Central America and Caribbean, Costa Rica, Featured-City, Manuel Antonio National Park, Osa Peninsula, San Jose Tagged With: Lindblad, Lindblad National Geographic, Manuel Antonio National Park, Osa Peninsula

Bonaire Restaurants and Hotel

December 23, 2014 Leave a Comment

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Bonaire Restaurants Although we only had five days (lunches) and four evenings (dinners) in Bonaire, we tried, as always, to make the most of our dining opportunities. And since we were on an island, the vast majority of our meals consisted of seafood. This, however, did limit our choices, since the only four …

Filed Under: Bonaire, Central America and Caribbean, Destinations, Featured-City, Food & Wine, Hotels, Restaurants, Travel Tagged With: At Sea, Bistro de Paris, Cactus Blue Food Truck, Chez Madeleine, It Rains Fish, Kit City Food Truck, Posada

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