[Leica] Nathan's PAD 10/8/2014: Oh, Canada!

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

You have no idea what we used to go through even at the airports - though I
have no idea if it still is like that. I have not set foot in the USA since
2002 after some treatment, from illiterate and ignorant TSA goons, that I
would not wish on anybody, at JFK airport, so I decided that the only way I
could protest was to take my tourist $$$$ elsewhere...
Cheers
Jayanand


On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Nathan Wajsman <nwajsman at gmail.com> wrote:

> We spent yesterday on the Canadian side of the border, first taking in the
> awesomeness that is Niagara Falls (despite local attempts to turn it into a
> horrible Disneyland):
>
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=3451580623&k=cX7jChW&lb=1&s=O
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> Then we drove the 15 km to Niagara-on-the-Lake and visited several of the
> local wineries. The wine was surprisingly good; I knew that the whites
> would be nice, and indeed there were several good Rieslings, and of course
> ice wine (frost in December/January is pretty dependable in Canada…). But
> the real surprise were the reds, some of which had the flavour, fruitiness
> and structure to match what we drink in Spain, but with a unique character.
> And finally, we came across the town’s lone crafts beer maker, Oast House
> Brewers, where my wife took a picture of me holding a bottle I had fallen
> in love with:
>
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=3451580961&k=BqdB7ff&lb=1&s=O
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> The only bad part about the trip was the one hour wait to cross back into
> the US. For some weird reason, the level of interrogation (and hence the
> time it takes to process each car) is much more extensive here than at the
> airport; and we are talking here about a car with US license plates and
> with four US citizens in it. I can only imagine what non-USians go through
> at that border. In our case it was the Lewiston Bridge, but the Peace and
> Rainbow Bridges were equally backed up.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
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