Bethany from Minneapolis sent me a card that her grandparents sent her from their visit to Florida. After reading about both cities, Panama City, Florida seemed more interesting.  According to Wikipedia, Panama City got its name because, "George Mortimer West hoped to spur real estate development in Bay County during a period of intense popular interest in the construction of the  Panama Canal  by changing the town's name from Harrison to Panama City, because a straight line between  Chicago  and Trujillo Honduras the Central American country  Panama's national capital  intersected the Florida town. Additionally, since required meanders around land formations in a seaborne route to the canal added distance when starting at other ports, Panama City was the closest developed port in the US mainland to the  Caribbean  entrance of the Panama Canal." Panama City is also the home of Tyndall Air Force Base and the US Navy's Naval Support Activity, w...