Tuesday, November 22, 2011

...And we did NOT die!

Sorry to leave you in suspense. Anna and I got in and out of Canada, no problem. The Canadian border guard on the way in told Anna: "You are REQUIRED to have a valid passport to enter Canada." Then he waved us on. This made me question whether Canadians have a different meaning for 'required' than we do in standard American English.
On the way home, the US Customs and Border Control didn't even notice Anna's expired passport, which made me wonder if all the people paying attention at our borders are too busy building walls in Arizona.
Anna polled all the employees at the rental car counters before we left Seattle and every one of them said we would never make it. Lesson: if you are looking advice for international travel regulations, Hertz and Enterprise night shift workers are not the answer.

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