{"id":3591,"date":"2015-01-11T14:12:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T22:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3591"},"modified":"2015-01-11T14:12:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T22:12:47","slug":"voiceless-wonder-panama-canal-01112015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3591","title":{"rendered":"Voiceless Wonder \u2013Panama Canal \u2013 [01\/11\/2015]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"tumblr_m09cwp87aU1qefrmxo1_500\"<\/a>Hello world cruise\u2026goodbye voice..<\/p>\n

I had hoped that when something similar to this happened last year it was a onetime thing; but the GWV requires a lot of talking at the beginning, and even my voice \u2013with all its power and all its training \u2013 cannot handle near full use nearly 10 hours a day, for three days straight.<\/p>\n

Went to sleep yesterday evening sounding only a tiny bit like Lauren Bacall, and now? Let\u2019s just say I\u2019m drinking a lot <\/em>of hot tea and honey!<\/p>\n

And as I am doing so, we are lazily chugging our way through the Panama Canal. Unfortunately I am \u2013 as all too usual \u2013 busy with internet queries and book reshelving and I all too often forget to look out the window, but when I do I am reminded just how incredible this place is. It\u2019s still hard to believe that it\u2019s all man-made.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s even harder to believe that I\u2019ve been through here more times than I can count.<\/p>\n

I mean, that\u2019s just not something I thought would ever happen; when you\u2019re a kid looking at pictures in magazines, or even an adult staring at photographs on a university slide screen, you don\u2019t actually ever think you\u2019ll get<\/em> to all these places. Most of us think we might cross one or two off the list if we\u2019re very lucky and very stringent with the inevitably iron-lung-caged bank book\u2026but even then we know it\u2019s probably a pipe dream\u2026<\/p>\n

Except for those of us who are so very very lucky\u2026.<\/p>\n

Yes, I have a cold, yes I\u2019m still adjusting to the hours and my voice is currently sounding a bit like I\u2019ve swallowed sand but really\u2026I\u2019m still so one of the lucky ones.<\/p>\n

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