Subj : Re: streets To : JOE MACKEY From : NANCY BACKUS Date : Wed Jun 12 2019 12:55:00 -=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 06-10-19 07:45 <=- > JM> there is almost invariably someone to my left or right (which ever > JM> way I'm turning) who wasn't there a second before. > You just need to banish Murphy from riding on your bumper.... ;) JM> I love the old roads, the two lanes. Less likely you'll have someone in the "other" lane... ;) I like the old roads, too, generally... they do tend to have a lower "hassle qoutient" than the expressways... although passing can be more of an issue when needed... :) JM> I was in NM (maybe western Texas) and this big black semi got right JM> on my tail and wouldn't go around, though there was no on coming JM> traffic. We were the only vehicles around. JM> Suddenly the old movie Duel came into my head, with me as the JM> Dennis Weaver character. One wonders what was going through his mind.... or if he was even old enough to have seen that old movie.... JM> He did finally pass and so glad to see the back of his truck in JM> front of me. :) Yup, a truck trucking along is best ahead of one instead of on one's tail.... :) One doesn't see the big rigs so much on the back roads, though, generally.... although a former neighbor, a trucker, told me of a trucker's short cut from Oswego over to I-81... that used Rt 104B and Rt 3, both 2-lane roads.... :) > got maps for the trip I have to make to pick up my son at the Montreal > airport next week JM> Yesterday I was in Del Rio, TX, had planned only one day but had car JM> trouble and had to stay two while the rental company switched me to JM> another car. JM> I had wanted to see the border and after finding a place to park JM> (there are no parking areas, you sort of make your own), I walked JM> across the bridge and couldn't believe how clear the water was. JM> Anyway, I wound up in Mexico, looked around at the new border JM> crossing stations turned around and started walking back. JM> I was stopped by Mexican security. He guy asked where I came from, JM> how long I had been then (he had seen me walking past) and asked for my JM> passport. I have no passport. I wasn't planning on visiting Mexico, JM> just look. JM> He let me go this time, saying I needed one the next time. JM> Then I had to check in with the border patrol on the American side, JM> but once again my drivers license was accepted, with the guy asking JM> why had I gone to Mexico. My enhanced drivers license acts as a passport for ground border crossings for Mexico and Canada... this trip to Montreal will be the first time I've actually used it since getting it.... Probably both guards had seen you wandering onto the bridge and coming back... and figured you for the hillbilly you are... Besides, you don't look Hispanic, so you aren't likely one of those scary migrants.... Besides, also, they probably felt the Presence of a fellow security officer, even if you are retired now... ;) JM> If one drove into Mexico they had a pay a $4 toll, foot traffic was JM> 75 cents to get in, nothing to get out. Traffic into Mexico was very JM> light, maybe about five or six cars, as at a toll booth, which these JM> look like. But, coming from Mexico was a long line of cars. And there JM> were guys cleaning windshields, (for a tip) going from car to car. So did you get charged as foot traffic....? JM> Some miles away on US 90 was another border patrol station stopping JM> everyone. JM> This time the border patrol agent asked if I were an American JM> citizen. I said yes, no request to see any ID, he looked in the car JM> and let me go. Well, you did have a state license plate on the car... and didn't appear to be carrying any contraband persons in the car... :) JM> In 1984 I went to the Canadian side of the Falls. JM> The Canadian border agent was very laid back, leaning his back JM> against the booth asking where I was going, how long, have a nice trip. JM> Coming back into the states that guy acted like I was a smuggler and JM> went over the car, asking all sorts of questions, looking in the JM> trunk, under the car, etc. Was it the exact same border agent on the way back....? ;) > Exactly. :) And sometimes it's also helpful to add... if you get to x > landmark, you've gone too far.... ;) JM> Oh great, NOW you tell me! :) Those directions are for the trickier turns, generally... ;) ttyl neb .... Originality is the art of concealing your source. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5 * Origin: Fido Since 1991 | QWK by Web | BBS.FIDOSYSOP.ORG (1:123/140) .