In 1965, when I was a teenager, my mother and I traveled on a cruise from Los Angeles to Nassau aboard the P&O liner M/V Oriana. We made a port call at Acapulco and transited the Panama Canal in the process. I'd taken travel photos before then, but I like the photos from this trip as they represent my first set of travel photos that tell a complete story. In this blog I'll use the photos to show you what it was like to travel though the Panama Canal. So, let's step into the WAYBAC Machine and take a look at cruising in the 1960's. In the 1960s, cruises typically were not self-contained round trips as they are now. Instead, sections of longer line voyages were sold as cruises. Oriana was traveling on an eastward round-the-world
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