Panama canal museum

Adventures are all about learning and seeing new things. Panamá certainly provides learning, and it even ties into my genealogy.
The Panamá canal museum was today’s adventure choice. Yes, I love a museum, but also it was 82 at 10:00, with 75% humidity so anywhere with AC had my interest.
Admittedly my understanding of the creation, history and technology of the construction of canal itself is limited, so almost (a big almost inserted here) everything was new to me. What wasn’t new was my understanding of a small time in Canal history when my great, great, great-grandfather Samual Allen Dick crossed the isthmus (west to east) on a train after his 10 year adventure in the gold fields of California. My genealogy friends especially Julian Clark, and Adel Welty, will hopefully recall how we uncovered his ship, and passenger manifest, and today I stood near where Samuel had been. It was great!
As for the actual canal history I took some photos from the museum and you can read about its creation on your own.Read more