A budding affection for Boquete

It has always bewildered me, this fascination with cruising through the Panama Canal. The water goes up, the ship goes through, the water goes down. I know the canal is an engineering marvel, but as an exercise in appreciation, I'd rather count rivets in the Eiffel Tower. Since "canal" and "Panama" go together like "horse" and "carriage," I relegated Panama to my Z list.

By Yvonne Michie Horn

November 3, 2002