Ok read all the reasons on here - Good ones! after watching Tony for the past year or two - There are better reasons for going.

HE IS A U.S. Citzen - I was not born in Panama but raised there and it is where I call home.
The Treaty needed to happen, but fact is The U.S. made Panama - from building the railroad in 1848 for the California gold rush - which is why there is a large chinese population there to the Canal - why there is a large West Indian population. IT IS AS MUCH A PART OF AMERICAN HISTORY AS THE HOOVER DAM! IT would give Tony a perfect soap box on which to do a show.

How would he like it if his NEW YORK was given back to the Indians and he didn't even get a chance to vote on it.

I could go into a thousand more good reasons, the food is everything that the others have said to him, although the only real dish from Panama is the Sancocho. the rest is a blend of all the clutures there.

Let me say again He needs to go so that all the people who have no idea what the Canal and Canal Zone was about - Don't have Geraldo's b-lls--t report about the fall of AMERICAN COLONALISM as their last look at a chapter of U.S. History - I have tried to refrain from using the term "American" as (was pointed out by my closest friend in the world - who lives in Panama) "we are all americans, from the North Slope of Alaska to Terra del Fuego"

Flak catchers for Tony - Let him see this as the whole slant is right up his alley, as his show is so much more then a "FOOD SHOW"

I would love to show him a piece of history that will be too soon forgotten as people like "BRATS" are gone.

OH yea The food that was a part of that world will be gone soon also...........

I agree that the canal is a very important part of American history, but I don't see it being able to fill more than 5-10 minutes of air time before viewers have had their fill. Maybe a sarcasm filled lunch at that restaurant that overlooks the Miraflores locks where he can lampoon the anticlimax of ships passing through the locks while eating mediocre "upscale" buffet food followed by a trip to Barro Colorado (a 3700 acre island in the canal where scientists from the Smithsonian research tropical biology).