[pct-l] Southbound Questions

[Diane at Santa Barbara Hikes dot com]

It's all become rather jackbooted, hasn't it? Whatever you've heard,  
it is true.

I carried my chip with me the entire way. If there were transmission  
signals along the way, they knew.

I'm just awaiting the day when they turn my chip off for not fitting  
in, for being hiker trash instead of a dutiful consumer wage slave...

Diane

On Feb 12, 2010, at 4:48 PM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
> They used to just look at you, ask what  you were doing, and if you  
> looked alright and answered the questions properly you'd be in.Now  
> all of our passports have radio transmitters in them, and we need a  
> passport or an enhanced license to cross the border, and we are  
> entered into a database. When we enter Canada, I?m not sure the  
> same technology exists, as they just don?t care or have the money.  
> Maybe that is all overblown BS just to scare people, but it is what  
> has been advertised.