This photo is looking out the side of a cruise ship heading into the Panama Canal from the Caribbean side. The large engine that is guiding the ship is one of the [...]

Much of the hardware for the panama canals is still original hardware, but the “mules” that guide the ships through the canal have been updated from the original GE steam engines to [...]

This photo shows a cruise ship going through the first set of locks on the Caribbean side of the Panama Canal. This ship is not one of the new monster size cruise [...]

Visit the Panama Canal with the Amateur Traveler: This video shows a bus and ferry tour of the Panama canal through to the Pacific side. This tour was part of a larger [...]

Visit the Panama Canal with the Amateur Traveler: This video shows entering into the Panama canal through the Gatun locks on the MS Volendam from Holland America. click here to download (mp4) [...]

I finally put up my trip journal for my trip to Panama. This is the trip that I talked about on: Episode 113 – Theme Cruise to Panama (Shakespeare at Sea / [...]

This journal covers a cruise to Panama on Holland America through Insight / Geek Cruises. The cruise was a Shakespeare cruise done in conjunction with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and a Mac [...]

Chris (The Amateur Traveler himself) talks about his recent themed cruise (Shakespeare at Sea / MacMania) on the Holland America ship the ms Vollendam to the Panama canal with stops at Half [...]

The Amateur Traveler podcast interviews Kinsey from the Tvindy Time podcast about his 97 day trip from Muncie, Indiana to Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Kinsey traveled through Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa [...]