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February 17th 2013

Published: February 17th 2013

<strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Day 478 Thursday 31st January Got up at 8.30 feeling like we could have slept till midday. I don’t know why but yesterday knocked the stuffing out of us and we both felt wrecked. After breakfast we took a long time to get into gear and head out the door to explore the city. Hadn’t planned on an... Read Full Entry

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Scott With Culebra Cut in the background

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Culebra Cut

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Looking back at the Culebra Cut

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The stern of a container ship

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Huge container ship passing across the Gatun Lake

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Digging the canal out wider

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Entering the Gatun Lock

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Gatun Lock gates

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The Atlantic Ocean from the Gatun Locks

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Shelley in the Gatun Locks

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Our last gates open to the Atlantic Ocean

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Us leaving the Gatun Lock into the Atlantic Ocean

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Cranes working over the new locks

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Sunset over ships in the Atlantic awaiting to cross Panama

Panama City

"The Screw" and a new building

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The open sewer channel- wish this was scratch and sniff

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Typical footpaths

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French Monument with Lessop

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Our walk to the mall

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Casco Viejo from afar

17th February 2013

Home and Away
Bob Carlsen

You have had quite a journey...
so much time on one continent. And I have enjoyed Following your adventures. I'm looking forward the reading you conclusion about the best and the worst...the must sees and must avoids...hopefully you are planning one! I'll never have time to do what you've done.

20th February 2013

Shelley and Scott
Michele Hutchinson and Scott Maberley

A Conclusion
Have to admit that blogging every day for 500 days has been a chore and we would approach it differently for our next trek. Glad you have enjoyed it but sort of looking forward to getting home and having the time and internet to catch up on other travellers blogs like yourself....there is never enough time or internet when you are on the road. On the flight home i am hoping to put together a nest/worst of and stats if of course i dont just fall in to a coma. Thanks heaps Shelley and Scott

21st February 2013

Home and Away
Bob Carlsen

You have been amazingly diligent...
Knowing how difficult it is to find high speed internet, you have gone above and beyond! I've gone through the same evolution, wanting to post everday...then posting as soon as possible after I get home. I'm about to do an RTW from 21 March to 16 April, doing the Silk Road and the Baltics...and will take my time. So please ignore my pressure, and go home and relax!

27th February 2013

traudy
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Unbelievable!!!!
Wow!!! What an epic journey you both have been on. I must say i cant wait to see your smiling faces here at home, relaxed and satisfied with your acomplishments.Writing a daily blog on this trip is phenomenal, I must say I have throughly enjoyed your day to day accounts of the natural beauty, human treachery, the now and historcal past of what founded Sth America and still beats its heart today. You are both incredible, absoulutely incredible,thankyou for sharing your thoughts, frustrations, joys and saddness with us all. And as for Panama, wow, thats was so interesting, the ups and downs of how to get from one side of and ocean to the other. Enjoy Germany., and yes I hope you blog that too xxx much love

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