Life in Rose

Co-author i the singer Edith Piaf spread the classic French song La Vie en Rose (pink life) in 1947, making it an irreplaceable anthem of Gallic love to this day. Behind the soft notes that warm the heart every time we listen to them, there is an ethereal line that encourages dreaming instead of existing.

All this comes to mind because in a few days our annual sailing, this time a three-week cruise from Seattle, a city bordering the Canadian border on the west coast of the United States, Miami in its Caribbean, crossing the new locks of the Panama Canal, with stops in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California; Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlán, Puerto Vallarta, Manzanillo and Acapulco in Aztec Pacific Riviera; Puerto Quetzal in Guatemala, Panama City, Cartagena de Indias in Colombia and Georgetown in the Cayman Islands before disembarking in Miami.

Traveling by boat Norwegian Encore cruise (which translated from French means “again”), sorry for the redundancy, will allow us throughout the itinerary to highlight, underline, evaluate the advantages of our destination during conferences before arriving at various stops. And it’s very easy because transit through the canal is the main course in all these wonderful routes.

At the village sale, there are pale obituaries that invite and stimulate the curiosity of more than 4,000 travelers who follow us. For example, during registration in Seattle I will be wearing my Panama Canal hat, the official one, which I bought at the Panama Canal store. IMAX cinema souvenirs from the visitor center from Miraflores. I think I had to subtly request a commission for the sale on Monday, November 13, because surely those hats will be on the agenda, a must-buy, seen and gone, during our 48-hour visit to the isthmus.

Last week during our cooperation as a speaker at Ibero-American Silver Economy Forum At the headquarters of the Latin American Parliament, we propose that the rebirth of our tourism has a common denominator of the correct exploitation of tourism segment of retirees in the United States, daily increasing by an additional 10,000 people, its mighty universe of 56 million souls.

But it’s one thing to address an audience, and another to act boldly, speechless, talking informally for three weeks with your fellow cruise passengers, the vast majority of them. American retirees about the virtues of our destiny.

The task of selling becomes more feasible with crossing the channel which is the number 1 choice of cruise passengers, because over the Caribbean, the Mediterranean and other desirable destinations. What should be typed are tembleks that adorn the head of beautiful Panama, those pearls and gold that dazzle our paradise. And the desire must be created by knowing the facts. At the age of twelve, my parents sent me to continue my education at a preparatory school in the city of Worcester, in the heart of Massachusetts, near Boston.

That boarding school expanded to completion of university studies and professional milestones in that country for more than a quarter of a century, visiting 41 states in the country, above the national average, almost at the level of truck drivers.

This allows us not to be ignorant of the very diverse idiosyncrasies of its population, because tourism is not just advertising, it pokes its nose into the variety of colorful flowers of the American Union in which the thinking of a New Yorker or a Californian but the citizens of the Midwest, the South or the extreme Northwest, to squeeze the juice out of the opportunities and bring to light once and for all the fate of the isthmus, finally turning it into “Vie en Rose” by Edith Piaf. We will soon enjoy that opportunity.