Musical Border Crossing

[psmcdoug at comcast.net]

The easiest times we ever had crossing the borders between Maine and New 
Brunswick was long ago when my wife had a car license plate of "NOMOOSE." 
On one occasion while crossing into Canada the officer actually took the 
time to tell us places nearby where we might find moose!  We often had to 
explain the license plate, which my wife got after we failed to see Moose 
during a New England vacation, when prior visits to New England and NY State 
that I had made without my wife were chock full of moose encounters.  She 
was thus very disappointed, as she had her heart set on seeing a moose.  The 
licnese plate is long since gone (novelty plates being quite expensive in 
Maryland), and we've soon many a moose since, sometimes closer than we'd 
prefer (including on a dark night along the steep and twisty road in the 
National Park, while heading from Cheticamp to the Dingwall Area)!  Of 
course, those were pre-9/11 and "Homeland Security" days.

   Pat McDougall


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Irene Shelton" <ishelton at uoguelph.ca>
To: <cbmusic at locals.ca>
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: Musical Border Crossing


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Meg Sullivan"
>
> Gotta watch out for those "HIPPIE-TOURISTS" I guess..What a world..
>
> haha - yes, so much for the whole romantic & exciting pre-hippy concept of 
> being 'On the Road'!
>
> I'm just still trying to figure out what the security's definition of a 
> 'Normal' tourist is (obviously not a Kerouac type!) .. painfully bland? 
> excessively uninteresting? someone who travels only to reach a 
> destination, not to enjoy the journey? dunno .. maybe I should be somewhat 
> relieved that we didn't look or sound like we fit 'the norm'...
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