As for the rest of the world our little bubble has also been burst. We cannot board a passenger ship as foreign travelers in Panama therefore we cannot transit the canal, strike two for that bucket list item . Avianca has grounded its fleet so our trip to Colombia is cancelled. Instead of returning home on the 27th, we will be returning home???
Our day was a full wonderful day with a rescheduled trip to visit the Embra People at a different site out of the National Park. Access was by a long wooden boat holding up to 8 passengers sitting side by side. The 30 minute trip was made more exciting by low water, it is the dry season, which required much poling and occasional trips into the water by the boatmen to push us through the shallows (less than 9 inches). While there Juan Carlos learned that the Miraflores Visitor center, overlooking the Miraflores Locks was closing at 5 with no planned reopening. Change of plans, rather than a couple of hours free time, we headed to the Visitor Center where we saw a wonderful 3D IMAX movie about the canal, history and current operation before heading up onto the 4th floor observation deck to watch several boats transit the Miraflores Locks less than 100 Yards from us.
We have plans for a group dinner in 30 minutes and for a rain forest walk tomorrow. After that it is all ??? As I said to our children, if we get stranded for a while I cannot think of a more compatible group we have traveled with, family excluded.
Oh my….stay safe!
OMG!!😳
Glad you’re making the best out of an unfortunate situation. We wish you a safe return home.
Dearest Paul and Carol,
I’m so glad that you’ve had a splendid trip! And I’m also glad you’ll be heading home 🙂 Safe journeys and take good care of yourselves. Love to you both. – me
Thank you for sharing the beauty of your adventure. Very appreciated given that most of Boston is practicing social isolation. Today the weather was gorgeous and I enjoyed a long walk careful to stay three feet away from my fellow “walkers”
Peace
You better believe that things are changing fast. Richard Witt and his wife just returned to Jojoba. They were in Spain for a total of 36 hours and just managed to catch a flight out before the country was shut down. They are self quarantining themselves at Jojoba. The Governor shut down all bars and restaurants today and said that anyone 65 or older should not go outdoors. Be interesting to see how well all this goes over at the park. Mary Beth has forbid me from attending JCAT meetings until this thing
plays out.
There is to be a Board meeting tomorrow be interesting to see what they do.
Should be interesting, we have very limited food on the coach. Will need to buy what we’re can. Current flight gets to LAX midnight tomorrow Tuesday I think.
I wish you a safe return to the chaos in the US. I was lucky to make it back to NY last week, 4 days early from my trip to Vietnam. After a forced 2 day stay in an isolation facility (don’t ask) because two British tourists on our flight from Hue to Saigon were suspected of being exposed (they weren’t) our remaining tour was cancelled and the whole group was sent home. I felt safer in Vietnam than I do here. Good luck to you both and stay healthy.
At least we have the electronic communication system working so there is no chance of spreading the virus this way I think
Be safe be brave be kind