LEAST amount of questions at crossing?
We always hear stories about all of the quiz questions when crossing the border. But, we never hear the flip side. Surely we've all had border crossings where it was not only painless, but extremely s...
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Sometimes you are the windshield and sometimes the bug. Hard to guess which you will be on any given crossing. I like the busier crossings over the more remote ones, where the officer may not have talked to anyone in the last half hour and are lonely. LOL
You can get rid of all the pesky questions about food, alcohol, tobacco by just one time taking a firearm and or ammunition across the border. Do it all legal and it still gets entered into the computer system which is shared by both sides. Take a hand gun across with a special permit multiple times as I have, an that is the only subject they want to talk about. Have a work history of law enforcement, private security and the red flags pop up on the computer system big time. I would love to know how they are aware of how many handguns I own, but they do. About half of mine have been registered with different law enforcement agencies, but where they got the rest of them I don't have a clue but it doesn't bother me that they do.
On our last trip north, we got the full treatment at the US Border crossing with the swat team surrounding our rig until someone inside gave them the stand down order over their head sets. The the Canadians gave us a full, sort of, vehicle search at the Beaver creek Station on the south bound leg. It is always fun to watch real professionals at work. That search may have been because I am a friend of Sue T.'s. Have to watch the people you associate with at times, LOL.
I am sure I have crossed border well over 100 times in my lifetime and most crossing are as the OP said. But if the computer flags you, for whatever reason, your state of residence, your VW Micro bus with the beautiful flowers painted all over it, or your past crossings, just grin and go with the flow, just part of the price of admission to a most grand trip of a lifetime.
You can get rid of all the pesky questions about food, alcohol, tobacco by just one time taking a firearm and or ammunition across the border. Do it all legal and it still gets entered into the computer system which is shared by both sides. Take a hand gun across with a special permit multiple times as I have, an that is the only subject they want to talk about. Have a work history of law enforcement, private security and the red flags pop up on the computer system big time. I would love to know how they are aware of how many handguns I own, but they do. About half of mine have been registered with different law enforcement agencies, but where they got the rest of them I don't have a clue but it doesn't bother me that they do.
On our last trip north, we got the full treatment at the US Border crossing with the swat team surrounding our rig until someone inside gave them the stand down order over their head sets. The the Canadians gave us a full, sort of, vehicle search at the Beaver creek Station on the south bound leg. It is always fun to watch real professionals at work. That search may have been because I am a friend of Sue T.'s. Have to watch the people you associate with at times, LOL.
I am sure I have crossed border well over 100 times in my lifetime and most crossing are as the OP said. But if the computer flags you, for whatever reason, your state of residence, your VW Micro bus with the beautiful flowers painted all over it, or your past crossings, just grin and go with the flow, just part of the price of admission to a most grand trip of a lifetime.
