This Random Thought Brought To You By History Research

Reading about U.S. foreign policy history, specifically the history of the Panama Canal. Did you know that we totally cheated Columbia out of Panama and the canal? We had a treaty going with Columbia that would have given us a 99-year lease on the canal, but when the Columbian senate rejected the treaty, we instigated, encouraged, supported, and protected a Panamanian independence movement. Once Panama got its independence, we made the canal deal with them instead. Sneeeaaaaaky....

Anyway I was looking up some background info on this in Wikipedia and I thought, man, I'd really like to go on a really long trip down through Central America and the Caribbean. That would be awesome. Trek down through Mexico, all the way down to Panama, then jump on a boat and spend a week or two hanging out in the Caribbean. I wonder how expensive that would be. I would think flights to Central America can't be THAT expensive.

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Turns out flights to Central America aren't actually expensive at all. I could go from Seattle to Mexico City in the middle of the summer for a mere $225. That's one-way of course, but still. That's not bad at all.