Nathan's Insights

Tuesday 8 August 2006
Highlights: Canadian Border Crossing

Today I was mostly killing time before catching my Greyhound bus back to Vancouver.   Unwisely, I threw out my map of Seattle and, as a result, got myself slightly lost when trying to find the station, which will be a lesson for me in the future. Have to say that the Canadian border officials are about 450% better than the USA officials. For starters, they actually help people who make mistakes, and you aren’t treated like a criminal.

BTW, they also don’t charge you for their services. I wish they made Americans come over and watch real service. Once in Vancouver, I found it raining. This is the 3rd out of 4 times when leaving a place it has rained, considering I’ve only seen rain 7 times on the trip there; there has to be something to this.   As I changed my plans to leave 1 day early, I didn’t have a booking for the night, and guess what…. I couldn’t find a place for about 1.5 hours (again, another lesson learned).

Tomorrow I have a 2 ‘official’ days of travel as I lose a day on my way to Hong Kong.   The trip is quickly running away from me, I’ve been on the road for 19 weeks now with only 3 to go.   My bed is starting to look very comfortable, however before that I have a trip to China that I have always wanted to do.