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Originally Posted by Scotian Lotion
With driving through the US (Toronto to Calgary), are there any concerns with the border agents ripping your car apart?
By that I mean, will they give you a harder time because they see your car is packed full of crap and will assume you're hiding something?
I was planning on sticking to the All-Canada route, but after reading through some of this, I think I'll use the USA instead.
Doing this trip in two weeks.
Then I get to fly back to Toronto and do the drive back to Calgary all over again in May to drive my wife's car out.
Umm.. yay.
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Me and a Buddy did the USA drive 3 years ago from London to Calgary. Our car was packed to the brim with both of our stuff, and it was probably a 20 second conversation with the border officer at Port Huron, they were more just curious as to why we go through the States if we are finishing in Canada again, then what was in the car. Was pretty stress free for us.
We were at the border crossing by 6:30 in the morning, and the Sweet Grass border crossing in Montana at 12:30 in the morning, so we were able to avoid any wait times at the border.
I recommend going through South Dakota instead of North Dakota, then you can go past Mount Rushmore on the way home. Only time you would ever find yourself in the vicinity of it in your life, and it only adds 40 minutes to your entire trip if you do South Dakota instead of North Dakota.