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US Road Trip: Canadian Immigration Officers Turned Me Away at the Border

I was living in Astoria, Oregon for the summer working with a Japanese-American import-export distributor. Before returning to California, I decided to drive up north to Canada to visit Matt and returned the book “The Bridge over the Drina” that he lent me in Sarajevo last year during the time I was living and teaching IT in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Crazy indeed to make a 300+ mile, 5-hour trip by car from Oregon to Vancouver and then took another 2-hour ferry ride to Nanaimo Island to visit a stranger whom I barely knew as we met only for a couple of hours in a far away country.