April 17 - Alaska Bound Day Three - Courtney

The last time I went through border patrol in a foreign country I had a melt down, and they threatened deportation. Of course, I figured the same thing would happen this time around, even though it was in a different country.

Throughout the day, I joked that I would be deported. When we got within yards of the border I told my parents we'd be pulled over and searched. They knew I was being over dramatic because of the last time. Dad and I jokingly argued back and forth about it. I was on the side of us being detained and he was on the side that we'd drive on through no problem. But, we did get pulled over to be searched. I'm not sure if that's a win I should be proud of.

We had contraband. No, the Kentucky Fire Bourbon I had didn't count. They didn't even care we had two dogs on board. It was the contraband eggs that got us. Eggs. Really, eggs? That's what got us searched at the border! 

We had to grab our passports, escort our dogs into a kennel, and proceed inside to be detained while they searched our vehicle for drugs and firearms. And the eggs? Well, they didn't search our frig or our freezer for more eggs. Hell, we could have hidden 3 more cartoons. Though, we had to give up 4 cartoons of farm fresh eggs to get into Canada.

I guess you could say I knew that we'd be detained. But I would've never guessed it'd be over eggs. I mean, we got to keep GMO packed meat products that are banned all over Europe. It's cool. Banned meat isn't poison, but eggs could be. 

We were detained only a short while.

After a few hours on the road after that we found a lovely RV resort to stay at over the night where we were able to get access to the internet. We even had time to visit downtown Winnipeg. Forks Market was a cute addition to our trip. Local artisans sold their wears and food in an old train warehouse.