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hmm, the only experience I had with coming home from canada was the guy looking at our oregon plates and waving me through.
he stopped me long enough to lean toward the window and say: jees, it's nice to finally see a fellow american today!
you need our passports?
naw, been dealing with fucking idiots all day long. have a good trip back home.
that was our conversation. iirc, he didn't even look at our DL's. I wasn't particularly proud of it, but didn't really care either. There was a lot of commotion going on:
1) lot of asian protests were going on right on the border. sorry, don't know what they were, although I hate to lump all "asian" together like that
2) this was a few hours after the reports that bush wasn't apologizing for the friendly fire incident in afghanistan.
wife and I were sitting in a pub and the tele was broadcasting some opinions on the matter. patrons seemed to be getting a bit agitated from their comments. so we quietly laid some toonies on the table for our beers and got the hell out of there.
3) and this was also on the same day that vancouver has this huge foot race. I don't remember what it was, but the city's main streets basically shut down from what it looked like.
who knows? but in any case security wasn't too big a deal back then. and getting in wasn't either.
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