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   Message 22,374 of 24,715   
   JOE MACKEY to AARON THOMAS   
   Oh, Canada (was: Re: nostalgia: postcar   
   27 Mar 21 06:48:56   
   
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     Aaron wrote to Aug --   
      
   > The closest I've been to there (in Canada) is Hamilton.    
      
     The only place in Canada I've been to was Niagara Falls in the summer of   
   '84.   
     When checking in with Canadian customs the guard was leaning against his   
   shack and simply asked where I was going, how long I would be and said to   
   enjoy my trip.   
     I parked at the floral clock and had heard something about a free shuttle   
   to the Falls and saw a old London double decker bus which I assumed was the   
   shuttle.  (And you know what happens when you ass-u-me).  I took a seat on   
   top for a good view.   
     After a while all these people got on with name tags and I realised I had   
   gotten into some tour group.  I just acted like I belonged and rode to the   
   Falls, all the while expecting the group leader to question me and throw me   
   from the moving bus.   
      Once at the Falls I drifted away from the group and never saw them   
   again.   
      I learned later the last shuttle which I wanted, had left so walked back   
   to the car, several miles.   
      I did watch golfers on the course along the road play golf in the dark   
   with glow-in-the-dark balls.  Never saw anything like that before.   
      A park ranger-type guy in a white Jeep stopped asking if everything   
   where ok and I said yes.   
      Later at floral clock I saw him again, my car the only one on the lot,   
   who said he would have given me a lift had he known and/or I had asked.   
      Coming back American customs acted like a smuggler or something, going   
   over (and under) my car, inspected the interior and trunk, asked lots of   
   questions, had to show ID, etc.   
      The only other time was seeing Windsor across the river when I was in   
   Detroit one time.   
      Joe   
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