LEAST amount of questions at crossing?

Sourdough Biscuits wrote:
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 so?

Does Border Patrol count?

Water hose connection came apart at the water tank in Yuma AZ. Had to remove the corro-plast and insulation around the tank to get it dried out. Only corro-plast I could find in Yuma was white from a sign shop. So here is a totally black underneath of a TT with a new white piece about 2 ft by 4 ft. I didn't want to paint it because I knew it would look like a new paint job. I even bought an extra piece to re-do it because I just knew the white patch job stuck out like a sore thumb and they would make me remove it so they could look up underneath.

Pulled up to stop sign with window down. He asked, "US citizen"? I said, "yes". He said "Have a good day".

We couldn't believe it. As I'm normally the guy that gets goosed by TSA when flying.

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.

Abide by the rules, have your documents available and your crossing is usually quick and painless.
We cross several times a year and rarely have a bad experience. Not all crossings are the same - you never know what you might be asked; be polite, remove your sunglasses, turn the radio off and answer the questions asked as briefly and accurately as you can.
Chances are you will be waved through and told to have a good trip.

It all depends on how they're feeling that day. Some ask more than others depending on what you're driving, where you're from, what you're attitude is, and if you take off your sunglasses or not. The best is to answer yes or no and don't volunteer any other information.