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Off topic but funny Canada border story,not at the time of course.Summer before last we were back east on VC and my daughters wanted to go see Niagra Falls as they've never been and it's only a 3 hour drive from my sisters lake house in Northern Pa..
We go driving up there and not really thinking about it too much drive over to the Canadian side to see the falls better and do the boat ride touristy things. I've been to Canada a bunch of times and sure enough,as always before, the Canadian border guards don't even ask questions or ask for credentials and just wave you right thru.
Stayed overnight and the next day coming up to the border check point back into the states and in line , it dawned on me in one of those "oh sh*t" moments.
My daughters being 12 and 14 at the time had no type of photo ID or any ID at all, for that matter, on them.Nada!
They had me park the truck , searched it, took me into a room where they checked me out and asked questions like why don't you have suitcases ,being all the way from Texas .Other female guards led my daughters off all scared and crying and interrogated them for almost 2 hrs until they could get a hold of their mother, my ex, on the phone before they let us thankfully come back over with just a warning.
Went and got their passports as soon as we got back home.
But the other day ,thinking about going to Costa Rica with the guys at work for a weekend noticed that mine expired in Dec. of last year.
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We went across to Canada from Niagara Falls several years ago with my then 3 year old daughter. Going TO Canada was fine, but coming BACK, we had the same issue…no ID or “papers” for her. They acted like they weren’t going to let us back in the US. I said “Fine. Do you want to keep her?” They didn’t think it was funny, but they let us back in.
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