[pct-l] Fwd: Canadian Border

[Ryan Tinkle]

Thanks for your insightful responses, everybody.  Now I'm struggling to
remember if I DUI'd in 2000 (in which case I'd be good to go) or 2001.   If
I could only recall what I was driving...or where I was living then...or
where all those hoof marks came from...maybe I'm not sufficiently
rEhaBilitaTEdeDed after all.

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Scott Williams <baidarker at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Ryan,
>
> When we got to the border, there was no one to greet us, and no one waiting
> at Manning Park to check our papers, and no one at the border ever asked to
> see them.  That being said, I know of 5 people who turned around at the
> border because they didn't want to have trouble because they didn't have the
> paperwork.  Several more just got it in time to be able to cross over
> legally.
>
> What we all do is totally up to each of us.  I wouldn't have crossed
> without the proper paperwork because I kayak and hike BC almost every year,
> and the thought of being denied entrance for years to come, to one of my
> favorite places on the planet, just because of a paperwork snafu that
> mushroomed into something bigger, is not worth it.  Will you be stopped?
>  From what I saw, probably not, but personally I really like Canada, and if
> they tell me to get my U.S. crap in order, I just go ahead and do it.  I
> really like that country to the north, and just feel it's the right thing to
> do what they ask.
>
> Anyway, it's totally a personal decision.  Some chose to cross anyway, and
> 5 others within a few days of me chose not to.  I know of 4 who crossed
> without the papers, and never heard of any problems.
>
> Shroomer
>
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