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Added commentary to entries about our cruise from Costa Rica to Panama.
Yesterday we had a bus ride from the dock at the port of Colón back to Panama City airport, with a stop at the Miraflores Locks visitor center which had an informative display, most of which had been covered in the documentary we had seen earlier, "A Man, a Plan, a Canal, Panama." Turns out El Papa was in town for the 2019 Catholic World Youth Day but he didn't hold us up much (one 4-5 minute stoppage on a highway entering the city, and a bunch of young people at the visitor center).
Going through security in Panama City I had my cuticle scissors confiscated (as did other passengers)...first time, though I remember putting them in my checked bags the first few years after 9/11.