by The Inside Cabin | Jan 9, 2018 | 2018 Grand World Voyage, Panama, Panama Canal, Central America
Panama Canal Today we will transit through the Panama Canal. It’s always exciting to watch this engineering marvel in action. The new, wider locks are open and in service, but we will be using the original locks. We arrived at the Gatun locks at 7 am and would spend...
by The Inside Cabin | Jan 8, 2018 | 2018 Grand World Voyage, Costa Rica, Central America, Puerto Limon (San Jose)
Puerto Limon It had been raining for the last seven days in Costa Rica, fortunately it was partly cloudy when we arrived around 7 AM. We moored starboard side, with the aft part of the ship facing the town. Based on my experience on the 2016 world cruise, I found...
by The Inside Cabin | May 9, 2016 | Central America, Guatemala, Puerto Quetzal
It was a little foggy as we approached the pier at Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala this morning. Rain was in the forecast and it was supposed to get hot and steamy in the afternoon. We were cleared to go ashore around 10 am but since we were scheduled for the 11:30 am...
by The Inside Cabin | May 8, 2016 | 2016 Grand World Voyage, Central America, Nicaragua, Corinto
Around 10 am we arrived in Corinto, Nicaragua, and moored alongside the wharf in the container port. None of the tours looked interesting so we chose to stay close and walk around Corinto. Since the Amsterdam wouldn’t be leaving until 7pm, we weren’t in any rush to...
by The Inside Cabin | May 7, 2016 | Puntarenas, Central America, 2016 Grand World Voyage, Costa Rica
We arrived in Puntarenas before 7 AM, mooring at the end of a long pier that leads to the center of town. While it wasn’t too hot at 7AM, you could tell that it was going to get a lot hotter and more humid soon. The pier here is long and narrow with no place for...
by The Inside Cabin | May 5, 2016 | 2016 Grand World Voyage, Panama, Panama Canal, Central America
We were up before the sun to watch our approach to the Gatun Locks. Transiting the Panama Canal is always exciting regardless of how many times I have done it before and always worth getting up a little early to watch our approach. We went to the observation platform...
