{"id":94,"date":"2007-03-14T23:38:32","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T23:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/14\/we-are-in-the-pacific-ocean\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T17:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T17:03:13","slug":"we-are-in-the-pacific-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"We are in the Pacific Ocean!"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }\n.flickr-yourcomment { }\n.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }\n.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/48817769@N00\/421531416\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/149\/421531416_732b6ddded_m.jpg\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n\t<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/48817769@N00\/421531416\/\">We are in the Pacific Ocean!<\/a>.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\n\tSafe Arrival in the Pacific<\/p>\n<p>     We completed our transit of the Panama Canal this<br \/>\nafternoon.  The photo has Mark and Laura, crew Matt Wall, our<br \/>\nthree line handlers Winston, Roberto, and Ng, and Marin, the<br \/>\nadvisor provided by the Panama Canal Authority.  Missing is crew<br \/>\nAnnabelle Bitter, who took this photo.<\/p>\n<p>    It was an extremely memorable experience &#8211; very overwhelming<br \/>\nin many ways.  We are now moored at the Balboa Yacht Club just<br \/>\npast the Bridge of the Americas.  Details of our passage will<br \/>\nfollow tomorrow when we have rested and had the chance to call<br \/>\nsome of you.  We were thrilled to talk to Ben and Hannah while<br \/>\nour boat was on the webcam in the locks, and to reach Shirley a<br \/>\nfew times en route. We expect to leave for the Galapagos on<br \/>\nFriday. Our current position is N 8 degrees 56.3 minutes, W 79<br \/>\ndegrees 33.9 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>L.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are in the Pacific Ocean!. Safe Arrival in the Pacific We completed our transit of the Panama Canal this afternoon. The photo has Mark and Laura, crew Matt Wall, our three line handlers Winston, Roberto, and Ng, and Marin, the advisor provided by the Panama Canal Authority. Missing is crew Annabelle Bitter, who took &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=94\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We are in the Pacific Ocean!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-panama"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}