tor 2016-05-26 klockan 11:21 -0700 skrev Ian McLaughlin: > Last year I made a day trip from Kelowna BC to Seattle Washington to pick up > a Northstar Horizon, and I paid cash ($100 if I recall correctly). > > When I arrived back at the border, I got the third degree about the computer. > The agent didn’t believe that I would make a 14 hour round trip to pick up > something worth $100 and that it must be worth much more. After much arguing > and showing him emails on my phone about negotiating the purchase he decided > to let me go, but warned me that next time I did something like this I should > at the very minimum bring paper copies of any emails negotiating such a > purchase. Normally all my hassles at the border are at the US end, but this > was on the Canadian side re-entering my own country. I was disappointed. > > Ian
The same type of guy which would ask me: ARE you doing this for FREE (asked while i'm sweating down in the machine room of a steamer (while it is 30 degrees celsius outside), it is around 50 degrees or so in front of the boiler. They can't understand why someone would something which looks like $work UNPAID. Yes i'm and i also had to pay for the morning's travel to the port and i also pay out of my own wallet then it is time to take that so very important course if i'm to become a legitimized steam boat chief (full time study work for 6 months - you need to eat and pay rent while doing that...) And think then about how nice it is doing maintenance work in the winter or that other leisure : running a steam engine occasionaly in the winter too. Your little road trip - well you paid petrol prices which is a bit below european prices. 14 hours -- 1000 km drive ? 75 liter of petrol - in swedish prices that is around 121 Euros, so including petrol you paid around 200 euros (swedish prices for the petrol) for the computer.
