Our Villa Vie Odyssey: Panama Canal - Was it Worth the Hype?
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we recently completed a Crossing through the Panama Canal now we have done the Panama Canal before and we enjoyed it but this time we had a totally different experience because we were doing it as residential Cruisers versus commercial Cruisers
it was a lot of fun experiencing this with them and uh we had a great time and then of course he was all over it so at 7:45 a.m. he pulled us up and said hey guys uh come over this way we were crossing under the Atlantic Bridge which was amazing
this thing is really an engineering Marvel even though it's been going on for over aund 100 years uh as you see these ships come and go and you see what's involved it's relatively simple but it is clearly not easy
we loved it and I think this time because we were on a residential cruise ship we had a very different experience um the last time we went we were on a huge ship with thousands of people and it was a lot
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