Canadian Boarder

I don’t know why getting ready to cross into Canada has been a big deal to Tommy and I,  but it has. We don’t have weapons, pepper spray, mace or anything like that. We have made sure we have our price stickers for meat that we will bring into Canada. We are ok on the amount of beer (only 24 cans are allowed in) but we are over on the amount of liquor. Only 1 liter is allowed and we have about 3 liters, so we know we will pay duty on this. We have been fretting the crossing, again, we are not sure why, but we have. We have heard horror stories about peoples RVs been searched and torn apart, being held for hours after inspections etc. We were looking at our maps and it looked like we still had about 5 or so miles to go before the border. So, I peeled our last apple since apples are not allowed in (even though they import apples from Washington State) and before we ate the apple we are at the border. This took us both by surprise, we never saw the last town that we were looking for to fill up with gas. It took us by surprise so much so that I did not even grab the camera to take a picture of the border. We expected more of something, what I don’t know, but something. We pulled up to where the woman was in what appeared to be a toll booth and she asked us for our passports. She asked where were we going and how long would we be in Canada and did we have any firearms or pepper spray, tobacco or liquor. We said no to the firearms and pepper spray, no to tobacco, and told her we had a 30 pack of beer and several open bottles of liquor totally up to about 3 liters. She said ok have fun on your trip and away we went. Didn’t they want to check my meat? What about the refrig? I made sure I didn’t have any of those dreaded apples or potatoes. Nope, just have fun! So here we are in Canada and it’s getting late, about 7:30 pm and we need to find a place for tonight. Wow look ahead of us, Yes! a Walmart! Ahhh feels like home!