The highlight and purpose of our trip was sailing through the Panama Canal. My father and I spent almost the whole day on our balcony watching the landscape pass by. Because we both had read The Path Between the Seas , we frequently discussed the history of failing to create the canal and the evidence of the final success, plus obvious on-going problems with side-wall collapse. This day was the culmination of my father's engineering interest in the design and construction of the project, his career speciality, albeit in the field of electric power. Throughout the canal passage, narration and commentary were played on the TV, which we could hear from our balcony chairs. Surprisingly, I took almost no photos during the passage; however, in 2010 I took
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