The Panama Canal

I actually visited the canal today.

There´s a pretty shit exhibition and museum, and an observation deck where you can watch the locks being filled and emptied for massive boats.

I enjoyed it... In the distance you can see ships all waiting for their slot, and as the cargo ships get closer you realise quite how fricking massive they are, and how little margin of error there is as they go through the canal.

It´s also the first modern tourist attraction I´ve paid to see, after Mayan ruins etc.
And I´m reminded that the things that we do now adayas and take for granted are pretty spectacular, and worth celebrating... we carved a water highway across a country to join two oceans so that bananas from Honduras can end up all over the world in a week or so, in cities, like Panama city where people work in skyspcrapers, towering so high above the ground that we could piss on Tikal and the Pyramids from a great height, and then we party in places like the jade seahorse in Utilla, a tree house gaudi mosaic bar, and we can fly around the world just for a business meeting, or to travel around.... wow, we´re so freaking lucky you have to take stock of it some time.
I´d liek to think that in the future there´ll still be tours of the canal, and they´ll be like "before the invention of teleporters, people would transport their goods in these masssive boats that look like they should sink, across a canal that bridges two oceans, just so they could all have their bananas in a timely fashion," and the future people will struggle to comprehend the way we lived, just as we struggle now to think about the Mayans and their weird football games and sacrifices.