I used to like going up there. My wife and I went to a place, Derby Line, Vermont, which has the only library in the world that sits right on top of the border.
Half the library is in English. The other half is in French. It was very cool...all the rooms in the library were built from different wood, etc.
But at the border crossing, they again asked me if I had firearms in the car and made us wait in the car for 45 minutes going into Canada.
My wife snickered at me steaming there. She is witness to this stuff. When we went to Europe, the customs people eyed me, looking at my passport, looking at me, and back at my passport, while my wife smirked at me.
When we go through airports, I get the royal treatment while she gets waved through.
Grr. I have very little sense of humor about this anymore.
Someone told me that my treatment was the retaliation that Canada takes against us because of the way we eyeball Canadians traveling to the USA. I don’t know, but could give a crap less.
Nobody has killed 3000 Canadians in one day yet.
we went to Paris in OCT 2001 30 days after 9-11 I have never had so many people question me In Paris at the airport a guy gave us the third degree and the others in line the same And his boss stood behind him reading me to see if I was lying. ( didn’t mind because it was so close to 9-11.
We came back from tel aviv I should my passport 6 times from the curb to the gate in Israel. And they don’t want to hear anyones sarcasm or bad jokes.