Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!ihlpa!animal From: animal@ihlpa.UUCP (D. Starr) Newsgroups: net.cycle Subject: Re: x-country travel Message-ID: <857@ihlpa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 13:32:33 EST Article-I.D.: ihlpa.857 Posted: Tue Nov 5 13:32:33 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 04:39:16 EST References: <1209@decwrl.UUCP> <1085@mtuxo.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 25One 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