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zrnzle500 wrote:

I don't think that Windsor is that weird. "That city across from Detroit" seems like a good location in that you can get people from the Detroit area without actually having it be in Detroit itself. Actually after looking it up on a map, it becomes even more apparent. When one says it is across from Detroit, it is right across from Detroit. Like you would only need to cross one bridge from downtown Detroit, and you're there. To me it seems weird that they wouldn't have locations there.

Wow, you're right. Looking at the street layout, Windsor also seems to be in the middle of a much larger metropolitan area, whereas I had the impression that it was a small town of 1,000 out in the middle of the countryside.

Having made the odd trip to Windsor I can categorically state that that it is not the easiest trip to make; there is a two-lane tunnel that is located on the U.S. side very close to the RenCen and a four-lane bridge that is <2 miles away to the South is packed with truck traffic (the only other bridge from Ontario to the Lower Peninsula that can accommodate commercial trucks is ~65 miles to the North -- over an hour's worth of driving).

GanNingKino wrote:

I really do try not to be offended by silly things, but calling the Midwest WASP-y was pretty snarky and not that accurate, either. Just because we're not on a coast doesn't mean you can insult us.

Yeah, the Midwest is so provincial I don't know how they get more than 5 people to show up to Ohayocon and Anime Central. :roll: Rightstuf must be a fortress, hunkered down as they are amidst all those uncultured, xenophobic Iowans.

@relyat08

How officious the Border Patrol is probably is based on how recent the last scare was. The last time I was out of the country was before 9/11 which makes a big difference. My wife an I were attending a doll convention in Niagara Falls. One morning we walked over the bridge to the Canadian side for breakfast . (You didn't need a passport then) The restaurant is about fifty feet from the falls. On the way back the BP just waved at us.

I don't know if it was legal, but they even searched the car.

Until 2001, the International had a customs stop of about one hour, with U.S. officials conducting screenings on the train at Port Huron. After the September 11th attacks, security personnel were redeployed to the Blue Water Bridge, and U.S. Customs refused to continue on-board screenings. (On-board screenings continued on Amtrak's three other border-crossing routes.) Westbound passengers had to be bussed with their luggage from Sarnia to Port Huron, costing Amtrak $27,000 a month. The security issues caused massive delays, even after on-board screening resumed on February 19, 2002 amid complaints from the state and both railroads. By this time, just 8 to 15 passengers crossed the border on a typical day.

^American Chinese food isn't the same as Chinese you will generally find in China. [...]