Subj : borders  was: streets
To   : JOE MACKEY
From : NANCY BACKUS
Date : Wed Jun 19 2019 23:55:00

-=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 06-13-19  08:03 <=-

 > One doesn't see the big rigs so much on the back roads, though,
 > generally

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

True... logging can be an exception.... :)

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

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

That worked nicely then...  :)  Crossing over into CAN and back, the
bridge was $3.00 American, or $3.75 Canadian... both ways...
 
 >  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
 >  JM> 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... :)

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

Good thing you gave in to wisdom... :)  Some jokes are definitely better
and wiser to leave unsaid... <G>

 >  JM> Coming back into the states that guy acted like I was a smuggler
 >  JM> and 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....?  ;)

 JM> Nope. 
 JM> The first was Canadian customs, the one who was (literally) laid
 JM> back, leaning against the booth, and coming in it was American customs. 
 
Ah, ok...  Crossing the border to pick up my son, I had no trouble
either direction... :)

 >  > 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!  :)

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

That can be useful... I'll take my maps, pre-trip, and re-fold them so
that the most likely bit of it will be right there, ready to look at
it... :)  And I'll open the TripTik so that it's on the page where I'm
most likely to need to consult it.... :)

ttyl        neb

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