[AT] OT - AFFF Fire/now Canadian Border

[charliehill]

Thanks Dan,  that is kind of what I thought.  So you are saying that if 
someone wanted to cross and went a couple of miles east or west from a road 
crossing they could easily walk or ride a motorcycle right over the border 
somewhere if they looked hard enough for a place?

Just curious.  I like to look at Google earth and that is the way it looks 
from the sat photos.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Folske" <dfolske at nccray.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT - AFFF Fire/now Canadian Border


> It used to be very easy to end up in Canada if you were hunting some of 
> the
> prairie trails. The first indication that you were in Sask. was the 
> license
> plates on the vehicles in the farmyard. I had a friend who lived about 20
> yards from the border. If he turned right as he left his yard he came into
> Portal, ND . If he turned left he pulled onto a Canadian highway and went 
> to
> Estevan, SK. Now they dug a ditch across his driveway. It's generaylly 
> still
> wide open but there are remote sensors all along so you might find 
> yourself
> surrounded by Border Patrol or RCMP vehicles before you realize you've
> crossed the border.
>
> A couple of friends used to work Customs & Immigration at Northgate. At 
> 9:00
> pm they would carry a couple of orange traffic cones out, set them in the
> highway, shut the door and go home. Now htere is a new 2.5 million dollar
> port building, gates, and remote cameras which can be viewed from Portal.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "charliehill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
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> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 7:29 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] OT - AFFF Fire/now Canadian Border
>
>
>> By the way, I forgot to say how inviting your area looks to me.  I've
>> never
>> been out in that area.  The land around here is flat, possibly flatter
>> than
>> yours but we have a lot of tree cover.  I'm not used to being able to see
>> in
>> any direction like you can.  Also dirt roads, except for field and 
>> forrest
>> roads, are almost a thing of the past there.  It might sound silly to you
>> but I miss them.  I'm assuming you still have lots of them.
>>
>> Sure hope to make it out that way some day.  If I were a little younger 
>> it
>> would be a good motorcycle trip but these days I like air conditioning 
>> and
>> being able to lean over and prop on the arm rest.  LOL.
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "charliehill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 7:18 AM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] OT - AFFF Fire/now Canadian Border
>>
>>
>>> Dan,  I don't mean to hijack the thread but I looked at your  town on
>>> Google
>>> Earth and I'm guessing you can answer something I've been wanting to
>>> know.
>>>
>>> I've never been up there on the border or much of anywhere west of the
>>> Mississippi for that matter.  It appears to me from looking at that area
>>> on
>>> Google Earth that there are places where you can just walk or drive over
>>> the
>>> border.  It looks like there are fields and farm roads that go right up
>>> to
>>> the border and there is very little if anything between them and the 
>>> next
>>> field or road over in Canada.  Is that correct?   Not that it matters
>>> particularly.  I don't think we have much of a border issue with our
>>> Canadian cousins.  It just looks like if someone wanted or needed to get
>>> over that border without papers it would be pretty easy to do with a
>>> little
>>> planning.   The other side of the coin is that I'm sure a stranger 
>>> sticks
>>> out like a sore thumb in your neighborhood.
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>
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