TRAVEL MEMOIRS

Lunch with the Colonel

A light lunch on a freighter in the Caribbean

Joe Marr
Travel Memoirs
Published in
6 min readFeb 7, 2024

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A freighter anchored at sunset
Photo by Christian Lendl on Unsplash

Many years ago, when I was in the Army, the Colonel, to whom I reported, invited me to lunch. We were to meet with the Captain of a Spanish freighter that had anchored two days before in Limon Bay, the major harbor on the Caribbean for Panama and the Canal Zone.

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Joe Marr
Travel Memoirs

Retired academic physician, biotech executive, and biotech investor. Now devotes time to extended family, volunteering, and creative writing.