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One of the items about which I had to do a little research was the Pan American Highway. I had heard of it before, but didn't know exactly what and where it was/is.
We traveled on this "famous" highway which is dubbed the "world's longest motor-able road". This road extends from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Ushuaia, Argentina, with a 54 mile rain forest gap in Panama. The road/s were built during WWII, to facilitate the sending of products down this particular part of the Americas. Discussion has been entertained concerning paving the rain forest gap, but for several reasons it hasn't (and probably won't) be done.

We were warned to keep cameras and electronics in zip lock/plastic bags at all times and we thought Jose was kidding, but we learned different. We had a cheap set of binoculars that got water inside them and were not very effective looking through fog.

We enjoyed listening to and watching the folks from England. A quote that I got seems awkward to us, but perfectly normal to them. "We resolved the query about which market is amalgamated with WalMart" This means we figured out which company merged with Walmart. There were at least 2 and maybe more of the folks from England whose use of eating utensils was "unusual" to me. I thought turning a fork upside down was peculiar. And one woman whiled away the hours on the bus by playing an imaginary piano. Interesting! I know someone who practiced her typing with no typewriter when she was in high school.

These last bits of info just didn't seem to fit elsewhere, or I forgot them at the time. STILL IN PROGRESS

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