Hi Everybody and Happy New Year! This post reflects a bunch of events out of order (sorry); since early December we've visited the San Francisco Bay area, Panama City, Panama (not Florida) and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (no pix of that part yet). Take a look at the pictures below - December was a busy little month for us!In the picture above we are at the Gatun locks of the Panama Canal - hard to believe the size of the ships, almost like seeing the Sears Tower sailing by. We could have stayed here looking at the 100-year old canal all day long. Amazing place.
One of the ships with crew members - click on the photo to see how much fun they're having!
One of the gates as a ship goes "All ahead full"
Here's Kathleen at a famous place...
Fort San Lorenzo in Panama, at the mouth of the River Chagres - easy to see why the Spanish put the fort here
Exploring Ft. San Lorenzo
Mark at the Fort
Here's the train we rode from Panama City to Colon - a wonderful trip through triple canopy jungle, complete with crocs swimming in the lake.
This was Manuel Noriega's private watering hole before he got tossed out of office - now it's part of a Smithsonian nature conservancy project on the Amador causeway. We got to ride bikes! Yippeeee!!!
A peresozo de dos dedos (two toed sloth) earning his name in a tree at the Smithsonian project
Mark at Limantour Beach, California December 2009
Kathleen & Mark at Point Lobos, California
Kathleen, you look happy. That makes me happy. And make sure Uncle Wally sees pictures from the train rides.
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