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!
Crossing the Border... (Part One)
It
was just two weeks after the horrific terrorist attack on the United States.
The US borders, of course, were on “high
alert”! Judi and I had traveled into the USA many times, but we knew that
it would be different this time! We were scheduled to attend the annual Ruffed
Grouse Society banquet in Warren, Michigan. This was one of the Society’s
largest and most important fund-raising events of the year, so our participation
as a major supplier to the event and to the Society was very important!
Besides, we loved attending this fantastic event, plus we had several framed
prize donations to deliver! Our drive from Cobourg to the outskirts of Windsor
was uneventful. However, once we got a view from the “Peace Bridge” crossing, we had to stop due to crossing traffic. The
wait, to say the least, was painful! We crept, and I mean crept, the distance
to the US Border stations. We knew what we were in store for, because we could
see what was happening to our fellow border crossers. As we reached the booth,
3 US officials surrounded our van. One was the customs officer and two were
soldiers with their rifles at the ready! We were told to open the back of our
van, which we did, but NOT to get out of the vehicle!
(To
be continued)
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