My dad always loved the Panama Canal, even though he’d never been there. My wife and I decided that we’d like to take a cruise on a (relatively) small boat that would take us through the Canal and up the coasts of Panama and Costa Rica, which we did in January of 2014.
That year happened to be the 100th anniversary of the completion of the Canal – one of the candidates for the Eighth Wonder of the World.
Our tour company was Windstar Cruises, which specializes in four-masted sailboats that only fit about 150 people, allowing their ships to get into smaller places then the larger cruise ships. Our ship was the Wind Spirit.
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