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On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:52:32 -0500, Matt Whiting
wrote:

How is Canada these days? I haven't visited since before 9/11 due to
the hassles at the border. It was bad enough before.

Hassles? Where?

We live on the border and have not been subject to any hassles.


Ron (EPM) (N5843Q, Mooney M20E) (CP, ASEL, ASES, IA)

Ron Rosenfeld wrote:

On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:52:32 -0500, Matt Whiting
wrote:


How is Canada these days? I haven't visited since before 9/11 due to
the hassles at the border. It was bad enough before.


Hassles? Where?

Niagara Falls.

Matt

On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 23:06:27 -0500, Matt Whiting
wrote:

Ron Rosenfeld wrote:

On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:52:32 -0500, Matt Whiting
wrote:


How is Canada these days? I haven't visited since before 9/11 due to
the hassles at the border. It was bad enough before.


Hassles? Where?

Niagara Falls.

Matt

Maybe because of more tourists?

We live in Perry, Maine and we cross the border at Calais/St. Stephen at
least weekly, frequently more often. Usually for shopping or other
errands. No problems going either way.

We did have some occasional quick vehicle searches coming in for probably
six months after 9/11, but nothing recently.


Ron (EPM) (N5843Q, Mooney M20E) (CP, ASEL, ASES, IA)

Niagara Falls.

Matt

Maybe because of more tourists?

I don't think so. More like, it's a major artery on both sides of the
river. The New York Thruway must dump thousands of people onto those
bridges every day. (The main bridge doesn't even go through Niagara.)

When I was stuck on that bridge, it seemed to me to be mostly trucks.

I was impressed by how smart and friendly the customs guys were, on
both sides of the border. Stupidly I neglected to bring my passport,
having grown up in the era when all you needed to cross the border was
a driver's license. But nobody asked for it!

(Two round trips in the summer of 2002.)

all the best -- Dan Ford
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On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 05:54:10 -0500, Cub Driver
wrote:

I don't think so. More like, it's a major artery on both sides of the
river. The New York Thruway must dump thousands of people onto those
bridges every day. (The main bridge doesn't even go through Niagara.)

When I was stuck on that bridge, it seemed to me to be mostly trucks.

I was impressed by how smart and friendly the customs guys were, on
both sides of the border. Stupidly I neglected to bring my passport,
having grown up in the era when all you needed to cross the border was
a driver's license. But nobody asked for it!

(Two round trips in the summer of 2002.)

Doesn't sound as if you were "hassled". Just caught in traffic.

There's a lot of truck traffic at the Calais/St. Stephen border crossing,
too, but with no major highways, no where near as much as at the major
crossings. Of course, there's only one or two customs booths open at a
time, so the lines can get long. (And there's a little used crossing a few
miles away, NOT known by the tourists, that we use when the main crossing
backs up).


Ron (EPM) (N5843Q, Mooney M20E) (CP, ASEL, ASES, IA)

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 08:08:31 -0500, Ron Rosenfeld
wrote:

Doesn't sound as if you were "hassled". Just caught in traffic.

No, I wasn't hassled at all.

When the daughter & son-in-law came home that December, they put all
the high-value stuff with no proof of American origin into the Subaru
station wagon, under piles of dirty diapers and children's clothes.
Both the children had measles.

The bulky stuff that was NAFTA-proof went into the U-Haul truck with a
Microsoft Excel inventory and proof of origin.

The boat they'd built traveled separately, through the wilds of Maine
in order to avoid the need to hire state trooper escorts in New York
and Massachusetts.

The whole move was accomplished without paying any duty, and only the
usual half-hour inching through U.S. customs on this side of the big
bridge.

I suspect that most of the delay was post-9/11 examinations of cargo.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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Hassles? Where?

Niagara Falls.

Matt, you should limit yourself to one or two meaningful posts every day.
Most of what you wtite here is garbage.