Over the years I have attended, worked with and organized hundreds of festivals and events. With this new series, "INSIDE with the Festival Nomad", I want to give you an "inside" look at some of the festivals and events that I have been involved with or that I have visited. Along the way, I have had a lot of fun and sometimes frustration, but I have never been bored!
ACROSS
CANADA … the First 26 Hours (Part One)
We left Toronto in our Dodge Caravan. We were all set
for our trek across Canada! Our idea was to keep the trip as inexpensive as possible,
so we planned on sleeping in the van as often as possible or stay at truck stops
and campgrounds along the way. The first part of the trip, however, was to
drive to Minneapolis, Minnesota to visit the publishing company, Hadley House. We
had pre-arranged an appointment to meet the management of the company, so we
had a fairly tight time table. Before we left we had calculated the time it
would take to get there plus some time to spare. However, we didn’t count on
several “unexpected” delays! Everything
went well until we reached the border at Sault Ste. Marie. It was about 2:00
a.m. in the morning. We were the only vehicle at the crossing. The border guard
started to ask us the normal questions and when I told him that we were
traveling to the U.S.A. for business, he became more aggressive in his questioning.
Finally he asked us to pull over for an inspection. In the back of the van we
had brought with us a number of “sample”
prints to show the people at Hadley House. Each print had the word “sample” stamped directly across the front.
All of the prints were “samples” and had
no sales value. The guard, however, had other thoughts. We discussed the prints
for quite some time, with Judi and I finally saying “keep the prints if you want, they have no monitory value to us”! The
border guard finally relented and let us go on our way. However, not without
taking up an hour or two of our travel time!
(To
be continued)
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