Travel to/from Canada
I'm a US citizen, with a passport. I'm considering travel into Canada in a month or so. Forgive me if these questions should be asked elsewhere, and redirect me? The most informative-looking sites on...
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garyhaupt wrote:
I am on the other side of the fence on the say nothing to the border people. I am more like..'be yourself'. If a person presents themselves all secretive and weird? Guess who gets the hairy eyeball. If you like to talk? talk..they aren't going to punish you for being friendly.
Gary Haupt...eh
I agree, I am a friendly person and on one entry into the US the border guard left the booth and walked half a kilometer into Canada past a number of other cars waiting behind me to read a US sign that I was laughing about. She came back laughing as hard as I was as nobody ever mentioned how stupid the sign was, she then told me some of the stupid things that people had tried to smuggle that week as she ran my information.
Another time going into the US there was something happening as behind each border guard was someone else with a automatic machine gun. The guy I was talking to was stern but very nice, he started to ask me the required entry questions so fast that my answers were off to what he was asking. Got to the part about weapons after asking me a question that I was saying yes to as he said do you have any military type weapons??? I said yes, the guy with the machine gun leans forward and goes "you do" and the three of us started laughing. He tossed my passport back and told me to get lost, which I did.
They know who to watch and are generally good at what they do!
