Date:         Sun, 15 Nov 1998 23:20:51 -0700
Reply-To:     Bill <Bill@FREEHOLDER.COM>
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From:         Bill <Bill@FREEHOLDER.COM>
Subject:      Re: Is it me or is it my Westy?--long
Comments: To: vanagon@vanagon.com
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At 09:45 PM 11/15/98 -0800, you wrote:
>I live in Canada and have never been pulled over in my Westy. However,
>when crossing the border into the States, we (my wife, two school age
>kids and a dog and I) have repeatedly asked to leave the van, out comes
>the dogs and practically the SWAT team to search the Westy. I mean
>really.

When I lived in Michigan, it was the same thing -- the Canadian customs
were no problem, but if we were going to have a problem, it was with US
customs.

Now, I live 50 miles from Mexico, and it's the same thing.  The problems,
if any, are always with US customs.

Not long ago, I went south of the border with a college group in a college
van.  The van was driven by a college employee, who happens to be a German
citizen married to an American serviceman, currently stationed at the Army
base in Sierra Vista.

At the border we were asked the usual question -- "Are you all American
citizens?"  The driver said no, she was German.  They asked for ID.  She
had her passport, her ARIZONA driver's license, and her military
dependent's ID card, but she had left her "green card" at home, thinking
she didn't need it.  We all sat at the border for two hours until her
husband could drive down with it.

Bill (SE Arizona) (Bill@freeholder.com) HTTP://www.freeholder.com
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