Subj : Re: streets
To   : NANCY BACKUS
From : JOE MACKEY
Date : Thu Jun 13 2019 08:03:04

  Nancy wrote --

> 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

  Yesterday I made an unexpected side trip on US 165 instead of 167 out
of Alexandria, LA.  There was a state road that linked the two which I
took.  Lot of logging in that area and between two large logging trucks
the whole way.  (We are all within the speed limit, no tail gating, etc.)
  I have never trees so tall, they must have been over a 100 foot tall.

> So did you get charged as foot traffic....?  

  Had to pay to get into Mexico but getting out was free.

>  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 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... :)

  I was tempted to say when asked if I were alone "Except for the three
Mexicans midgets in the trunk" but wisely kept my mouth shut.  :)

>  JM> Coming back into the states that guy acted like I was a smuggler
and went over the car, asking all sorts of questions, looking in the
trunk, under the car, etc.
> 
> Was it the exact same border agent on the way back....?  ;)

   Nope. 
   The first was Canadian customs, the one who was (literally) laid back,
leaning against the booth and coming in it was American customs.  

>  > 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!  :)

  One thing I do with my notes (Rt x to y, l/r turn, etc) is put down
cross this, that and the other street so I'll know how close I am to a
turn.  Handy to look at when stopped at a red light.
   Joe

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