Border closings

Tequila, Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! There is no doubt that most ambitious plastic surgeons would love to get hold of that vaccine for their businesses!! My, my what you can do with photoshop; Russia's Putin I think would love it, unless he's insecure about his manhood, but I think that insecurity is only there when Hillary visits Russia.

Don't worry, there are two candidates on the horizon for Covid, and you and I are second in line because of our age; first are all the health care workers, nurses, and doctors. However, it looks like a two-shot deal.

I have a residence in Mexico but no utility bills in my name, my landlord handles them. Yes I work with caravans but we have suspended operations until next season unless there is a vaccine by year end then we may run 1 or 2 in late spring in Northern Mexico & Baja. To be quite honest at 71, I think I will stay in Canada until there is a vaccine. Russia is providing 35 million doses to Mexico in November but apparently it has side effects, but I will encourage my wife to have it.

Sorry Had to get rid if the image, Made me smile though.

silversand wrote:
.... Then, pending a 2 week epidemiologically-monitored period, if infections here continue to soar (as they have been since on-premises return-to-schools was instated), a Province-wide "General Confinement", and possibly, a shutdown of all industry not essential, will happen.

All this over the next ~2 weeks. We are racing to get our rig into indoor storage.....this week (rather than wait and see), to preempt any regional police road blocks between Regions...

Good luck with the "2 week" thing - that's what we were told, and that was 7 or so MONTHS ago.

Oh, and buy as much toilet paper as you can right now!

Tequila, I'll tell you where I'm going with this after I ask you a few questions. Have you ever performed in stage theatre in high school or college? Do you have a place of residence in Mexico that you own or rent? Do you pay any utility bills at that residence, and the bills have your name on them? If I am not mistaken, aren't you someone who works in Mexico leading caravans, and it is an income stream for you? If you can answer yes to these questions, then I would pay a visit to your nearest US Consulate with your Mexico Resident Card, copies of your utility bills at your Mexico place of residence, any work stubs or paperwork showing you have a contract/job in Mexico which requires your presence, and with a very serious demeanor, inform the consulate that you need to cross the border as an "essential" traveler to make your way home to your job. If you can pull that off, I'll personally call the Screen Actors Guild in Hollywood, and they will have an "Oscar" waiting for you. US Border Patrol will never override a directive from the Consulate. All the Consulate can do is say no.

charlestonsouthern wrote:
It seems that citizens with dual citizenship, US and Canadian, certainly are in the "cat bird seat" for non-essential travel across land borders.

yeah my neighbours took their RV to californa and back to visit relatives. They have both canadian & US passports

It seems that citizens with dual citizenship, US and Canadian, certainly are in the "cat bird seat" for non-essential travel across land borders.

moisheh wrote:
Canada managed to handle those returning snow birds this past season. But that is moot. Canada cannot prevent you from leaving.


With the slowdown in border crossings we are paying for border employees who are probably spending the day watching Tik Tok.

From a purely technical point, they absolutely CAN prevent you from leaving. The part most people forget about is that things like drivers licenses, license plates, and in this case, PASSPORTS are not “yours”, they are issued to you, but they are the property of the government. They must be surrendered on request.

If push comes to shove, you’re not getting into the US without a passport.

As for the customs employees, I don’t know if they’re on furlough, or laid off, or what, but the customs office was a ghost town this afternoon.


Not that it’s an official word in any way, but I asked the US CBP officer I dealt with this morning about a potential reopening, her reply was ‘Don’t hold your breathe, it ain’t gonna happen ANYTIME soon.’.

JaxDad wrote:
So if they're all couples that's at least 175,000 couples, if only say 1/3rd of them drive south that's north of (pun intended) 60,000 southbound vehicles to track. Never gonna happen!!!

LOL.....we are bracing for the other shoe to drop in Quebec, at a 5 PM announcement today. Speculation is that most of the densely populated regions of Quebec will topple into Red Zone status (several are Red now). And, that all establishments serving alcohol (including all restaurants) will be forced to close their doors by midnight (or, sometime tomorrow). Then, pending a 2 week epidemiologically-monitored period, if infections here continue to soar (as they have been since on-premises return-to-schools was instated), a Province-wide "General Confinement", and possibly, a shutdown of all industry not essential, will happen.

All this over the next ~2 weeks. We are racing to get our rig into indoor storage.....this week (rather than wait and see), to preempt any regional police road blocks between Regions...

A wise man once told me...

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Canada managed to handle those returning snow birds this past season. But that is moot. Canada cannot prevent you from leaving. Nor can they refuse your entry upon returning. With the slowdown in border crossings we are paying for border employees who are probably spending the day watching Tik Tok.