On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:20:24 GMT, "Bill in Schenectady"
wrote:
>If you don't mind a bit of a walk, then keep your car on the US side and
>take a walk to the Canadian side. That way, you avoid the traffic, the
>parking problems, and the long wait to cross the border.
That's what I would do the next time. Unfortunately, the visit was
planned otherwise, and when I realized that we weren't going to find a
parking space, we just had to push on. We were helping my daughter
with a move from New Haven, Connecticut to Bloomington, Indiana,
passing through Niagara Falls, Toronto, and Ann Arbor so that we could
visit friends and kill time waiting for the moving truck to get to
Indiana. When we left Niagara Falls, we were expected in Toronto later
the same day.
We also had an interesting time passing the border checkpoints. It
dawned on me as we approached the guard post going into Canada that we
were driving my daughter's car which was loaded with things too
fragile to trust to the movers. Yet my husband and I had Italian
driver's licenses and nothing that tied us to the car. I called my
daughter on her cell phone and told her she should go right ahead of
us in line so she could tell the officer that we were her parents.
On the way back into the US, the officer said, "Umm, what's that you
have?" and I realized that we had a large live plant in the back of
our car, of which my son-in-law was excessively fond. I went to the
Department of Agriculture office and explained that the plant had
never been out of the car since it had left its home in New Haven
three days before. He gave me a certificate for it and let us pass.
>
>Oh,,,there's a fifty cent toll (or is it 75 cents?) to walk across the
>bridge back to the US.
>
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Barbara Vaughan
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