OT: Border inspections
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- Subject: OT: Border inspections
- From: "* E* &* S* E* <a*@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 16:35:43 -0400
From: "Ian E. & Shirley Efford" <avocet.intl@sympatico.ca>
Dianne's comments about internal boundaries for agricultural inspections
reminded me of arriving in Perth, Australia from Sidney. One is
surprised by a very thorough inspection - including dog search - of all
luggage for meat! The only other time that I have experienced that was
leaving Poland during the communist era when the export of Polish
sausage was forbidden.
The United States gave us our most troubled experience. When newly wed
and very young and inexperienced, we travelled from England to
California. We drove from Detroit to La Jolla and as we approached the
Californian border, the automobile club handbook said fruit and
vegetables were forbidden to enter California. We were very short of
money and had little food but a very large box of peaches. Not wishing
to waste the investment, we stopped just short of the border and ate the
remaining peaches! As it happened, we were on a back road with no
border station and you know what happens if you eat pounds of peaches
all at once!
Ian, in Ottawa where aphylla continues to flower along with the odd
ensata.
PS: Croftway Gardens is near Portsmouth, not Plymouth and what does
Annette's dogs do with her lawn mower?
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