Category: Panama Canal

  • At sea

    At sea

    As of 8 am Thursday, we were chugging past Los Angeles. It is a gray and foggy day, but the good news is that I have finally figured out the ship’s internet (hopefully)….here is the post I wrote Thursday night…. The Insignia pulled away from San Francisco at exactly 5:00pm.…

  • San Francisco in Doom Loop?

    “It’s what the politicians want” said the driver who delivered us to our San Francisco hotel yesterday. He was referring to many closed businesses, a significant drop in tourism and a surge in homeless living on city sidewalks. “It was the pandemic and all those financial employees who work at…

  • Panama Canal Trip, if only we didn’t need to fly first

    Panama Canal Trip, if only we didn’t need to fly first

    As a little girl, my family would visit the local airfield with a picnic, sit beside the wire fence and watch planes land; the airport was a local attraction. As an adult, flying was the beginning of an adventure, an adrenaline rush. Families could unite or separate at the gates.…