The Great American-Canadian Road Trip: Day 8-9
July 20, 2008
At last, we have made it to Vancouver! We successfully crossed into Canadialand yesterday afternoon, despite a slight hang-up at the border because a certain Dr. Tsou didn’t have the title to the Canadian car with American license plates. The border guard also felt it necessary to tell us that our little car should not have been pulling a trailer in the first place, which is probably true, but was obviously of no concern to the U-Haul people when they installed a trailer hitch. Good old U-Haul! Anyway, whether the car was meant to do that kind of hauling or not, it did it just the same and without incident. And now, after being in the car for 8 days and traveling through 9 states, all I got to show for it is a ridiculous number of freckles on my arms and these three totally awesome t-shirts :-) 
My wardrobe gets sexier by the day.
The road trip is quickly coming to a close. Later today we head to Seattle, and tomorrow I fly (gulp!) back to Chicago.
for the record: the title was *technically* in the car (if you include the u-haul trailer as part of the car) but *misplaced,* and the VIN# was sufficient to prove that my Corolla is a canadian car.
At any rate, thanks for coming for the ride across America! I definitely appreciated the wonderful company, especially knowing your fear of air travel. w00t!
Comment by j-potty — July 22, 2008 @ 1:23 pm
Well, at least Tsou didn’t try to run the border outright, unlike a certain Jason “I thought that was the brake pedal” E**** did in Montreal a few years back.
Comment by Celia — July 23, 2008 @ 10:30 am
Holy crap! Jason seriously ran the border?! Good god, I’d have been ducking/trying to figure out how to jump out of the car before the snipers got me if we had done that. My apologies to Dr. Tsou–I never realized what the alternatives might have been.
Comment by R. Batty — July 23, 2008 @ 8:28 pm
He ran it, though to be fair, he reversed back through it afterwards. There were no snipers, thank God, but I was preparing for them to deny us access to Canadia and all the splendor of Montreal in the dead of winter.
Comment by Celia — July 24, 2008 @ 6:06 am
Hey, in my defense, I’d been wearing the same style of footwear for 10 years or so & the winter boots I was wearing were considerably broader than the Sambas. The border guard, while not detaining us, was not amused.
Comment by Redking — July 31, 2008 @ 10:59 am
Still, remind me not to get in a car with you behind the wheel…
Comment by R. Batty — July 31, 2008 @ 3:25 pm
At least while I’m wearing something other than Sambas, so you should be safe 99% of the time; the other 1%, we may be running borders…
Comment by Redking — August 5, 2008 @ 10:34 am