BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: Bbsing
De:       Dumas Walker
Data:     Sun, 8 Feb 2026 09:49:00 -0500
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>  MP> Main reason I got a passport was that you need one to get back *into* the
>  MP> USA after you visit Canada.  That was over 10 years ago when I got it.  I
>  MP> wonder if a Real ID would suffice now, or if you still need the passport?

> it's kind of funny, i live in Michigan and for a stretch i used to visit
> internet friends in Canada probably once a month or so and at that point all
> you needed to get into/back from Canada was your license and your birth
> certificate.

It is possible that I could have also done that but didn't want to carry my
birth certificate, so I got a passport instead.  I don't 100% remember now,
though.

> but the amount of times we'd go through there and they'd just ask
> "citizenship?" and send us along (potentially with one or two friends so waste
> they can barely speak) without looking at anything was crazy. i guess it's not
> a surprise they're gung-ho about it after all that time.

LOL, coming out of Canada into the USA in 2017, they had a bunch of mirrors
and stuff set up so they could see below the car.  The guy barely looked at
my passport before sending me on... he was much more concerned with the car
behind me that had entered the "no-man's zone."  I would not have wanted to
be in that car as I would guess they got checked a lot closer.

That was at Port Huron, a somewhat busy crossing.  Going into Canada, I
crossed the border south of Thunder Bay, ON.  The Canadians were a little
more skeptical about why someone from Kentucky would be crossing there.
They took my passport and detained me maybe 20-30 minutes before asking me
a few questions about why I was there and where I was going.  "Great Lakes
Circle Tour" and naming some places off that I was visiting helped.  They
were pretty nice about it.


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