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General Discussion / Re: border crossings
« on: December 28, 2019, 09:57:15 pm »
My crossings last year didn’t go so smooth! A friend and I were doing the Northern Tier and wanted to cross over for the day to see Niagara Falls. We spent the night at the hostel in Buffalo, great place, and headed to cross on the Peace Bridge. The Adventure Cycling map said that you could cross with the new drivers license but we brought our passports just in case. There was construction so a nice young lady escorted us across behind her van. We got in the car line and I gave the guard my drivers license, he want to know how long we were staying and I told him just the day then he wanted to know how we were leaving and I told him I didn’t know I hadn’t looked that far away, I didn’t even know there was another bridge close. Well that must have made him mad, he wanted my passport then, well it’s in my panniers so when I get off to get it out he yells at me for being to close to the window. He keeps my passport writes me a yellow ticket and sends me inside, my friend is sent in a few minutes later. I feel like I am a kid back in high school being sent to the office, I’m 66 years old, wasn’t trying to be any trouble, guess we caught that guard on a bad day. After about 15 minutes we got our passports back and were told we could go with no explanation. The falls were beautiful but way to crowded but coming and going on a bike is the way to go. We crossed back on the Rainbow bridge with no problem.