Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihuxn!gadfly From: gadfly@ihuxn.UUCP (Gadfly) Newsgroups: net.cycle Subject: Re: x-country travel Message-ID: <1248@ihuxn.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 13:26:01 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxn.1248 Posted: Wed Nov 6 13:26:01 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 06:13:59 EST References: <1209@decwrl.UUCP> <1085@mtuxo.UUCP> <857@ihlpa.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 33 -- > 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)... > > Dan Star I had the same experience, repeatedly, in Detroit. Both the bridge and the tunnel. Once I figured I could avoid it by going further north and taking the ferry across to Sarnia. Boy was that a mistake-- it's not that popular a route, so the customs folks had all the time in the world. That was the first time anyone in the US ever made me prove I was a US citizen. I got so mad I kept hoping they'd reject my proof (a voter registration, which is supposed to be as valid for that purpose as a passport) so I could go back into Canada as a political refugee. That was in 1972, by the way. I have since ('76, '80, '82) taken the tunnel and taken my licks. I travel light, so it doesn't take more than 15 min. for them to search my pack and gear. When they get around to it. -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 06 Nov 85 [16 Brumaire An CXCIV] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7753 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!iwsl8!ken *** ***