We left at 7:40am from our home and had to run a couple errands on the Mexican side before heading out and made it into the regular line where we waited an average wait time of about an hour. In the US, we had a few errands to run as well and needed to go to the US office near Los Angeles.
We had made it there early enough and it seemed to be too chilly to swim- so we skipped the wigwam hotel and went to Primm Valley Nevada which would have put us ahead of the driving game. This is a casino "town" with several hotels- we got a room for $19.95!! Very cool- The bigger price though was that you had to walk through a smokey casino to go to the room and out of the hotel. The pool was closed at 6pm (for some crazy reason) so we went to the outlet mall to get some food. It was big but not busy at all. Because it was midweek- everything else was closed- the arcades, the pool, the roller coaster, the drop of doom-- everything! It was a neat looking place, when things are open!
DAY 2
So the next day we got off late and made it to Pocatello, Idaho. The motel there had an open, warm pool.
On the way there, we went through the mountains and at 6500 feet ASL we ran into about 2 inches of snow and a mini-blizzard! The boys were so excited we pulled over in a safe spot and had a snowball fight! It was a lot of fun until the cold set in! I was in my shorts and Jacob in his sandals! It was then we realized that we hadn't brought any shoes for Jacob! He apparently doesn't have any shoes that fit him! Which sounds crazy, but he uses sandals for 8 months of the year, so we don't usually buy shoes until November-December and I guess that chore got lost in the preps!We had a good night sleep and got on the road at about 9am this morning.
DAY 3
We made it through Idaho and into Montana and at the border, we got turned around! I could hardly believe it as is was happening. We cross the US Mexican border at least once a week and have crossed in Us vehicles, Canadian ones and Mexican ones with no issue. I've flown into Buffalo and crossed into Canada with a New York plated Rental vehicle with no problem because I am a Mexican resident. But today was trouble. The border official disputed our residential status in Mexico and sent us back into the states. It was 1 3/4 hours back to Great Falls, MT. Now we are praying about what to do- whether to rent a vehicle ($1600US + $400 insurance- and no where near that amount of money to do it!) or whether to try again to cross at the same crossing or go further east into a MT-Saskatchewan crossing.
I'm going to call the Border services in Montreal tomorrow at 6am our time to see what they say.
Please pray that the Lord would give us favour at the border and we would get a border guard that lets us through!
Thanks and God bless!!
Mike
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