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From: animal@ihlpa.UUCP (D. Starr)
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: Re: x-country travel
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Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 13:32:33 EST
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One not-so-pleasant note about cross-country travel:

Generally, the people you meet when traveling across the country
are pleasant and helpful.  There is one consistent exception, and
you apparently are going to hit it.  That is U. S. Customs, upon
returning from Canada.  Customs people seem to be surly and obnoxious
pretty much all the time, but go out of their way to annoy people
traveling on two wheels.  This summer, for instance, before we even
came to a full stop at the border, the customs agent was filling out
the paperwork for a complete vehicle search.  We wound up wasting about
an hour in beautiful Buffalo before being allowed to re-enter the
Land of the Free (feeling not all that free at the time).  The monthly
AMA magazine printed a story this month about a couple that was not
only detained and searched for no apparent reason, but also had their
exposed film stolen (confiscated is the official term, but that word
conveys a legitimacy the customs people don't deserve).  That didn't 
happen to us (this time), but on future trips I'm going to have my
film developed in Canada and mailed home.  If that further hurts the
balance of trade, T. S.

Pack carefully,

	Dan Star