Although Montreal was on my list of stops to see, we weren’t able to, but we did technically drive through it, the traffic was horrendous. They drive like Europeans, very fast and tightly clustered (my father was driving — almost white knuckle).
Speaking of VT, if that f’tard Governor of theirs had been killed by those bears he was so stupidly trying to “shoo” away, a Republican would be back in charge (who slipped under the radar to succeed Lt Gov Brian Dubie, who ought to be the Guv now).
Too bad you and your brothers didn’t have a bit of fun at the border... tell the border agents (with fake heavy accents of unknown Eastern European/Middle Eastern origin), “We’re here to buy your women... how much for the women ?... how much for the leeetle girls ?” ;-D
You should put up the graphic of the states you’ve visited, use the one on my page which links to the website and personalizes it for you. How did you manage to get to Alaska as a baby ? Frustratingly, despite being within eyesight of it (just a couple of miles from it, exiting Quebec, I’ve never set foot in Vermont).
I have been in Mexico, to Mexico City (but not since 1976 when I was a kid) and some of the border states (Sonora & Baja California Norte). I willfully passed on my father’s bright idea to drive into Ciudad Juarez (this a year after Quebec in 1992). Although there were no problems, I doubt I’d feel safe going back to the little town on the Sonoran border of Agua Prieta (opposite Douglas, AZ, near Tombstone) or Tijuana (the day we were in Tijuana was when the Rodney King verdict riots erupted up in L.A. and we didn’t know until going to dinner late in the evening — it forced the remainder of our trip to be altered, since we couldn’t go to L.A., and I still haven’t been since).
My parents took a cruise to Alaska when I was a baby, took me with. Unless mom put me down to crawl when they stopped on land, which is unlikey, I never “set foot” on Alaskan soil but I was there.
That’s also why I was in California, stopover in the airport (and again during a trip to Hawaii).
I’ll put up that map, I haven’t even looked at my FR page in while.
““We’re here to buy your women..”
Ah, haven’t seen that movie in a long time. Think those hosers would have had a sense of humor? ;p