As a follow-up to yesterday’s post I applied for NEXUS. For some reason I had it in my head that the cost was over $200 which seemed a bit much for maybe 5 trips to Canada per year, but it is actually $50 for 5 years. Depending on when I get approved and how the…
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Business Travel To Canada
Although Canadians overall have been extremely friendly, their immigration department still has an important job to filter out people coming over with an intent to stay. Apparently I fit into their demographic of a potential questionable person and I have been sent to secondary questioning 4 times out of 20 or so crossings. I was…
Driving a rental to Canada? Check the dash
Since it’s winter and I live in the south of course that means all my business travel is to Canada. I have a client fairly close to Buffalo so it makes more sense to fly into Buffalo instead of Toronto due to traffic patterns and the ridiculous airfares into Toronto’s Pearson Airport. Last week I…
How not to pick a line at the border
I was working in Canada last week and needed to cross back into the US at Buffalo. I don’t like to data roam on my cell phone so I didn’t check wait times at the checkpoints and I followed my GPS to the Lewistown bridge that I always take. I got on the US side…
Hotel Review: Crowne Plaza Hamilton, ON
This is my second stay at the Crowne Plaza. I usually stay at the Staybridge Suites in Hamilton, but I’ve been waiting too long to book my hotel and so I end up at the Crowne Plaza. I shouldn’t really say “end up” though since it is a property that really seems like it is…