Canada. Yay.

[camwyn]

I'm goin', dammit. I have to go buy my tickets at Amtrak, but I've made my reservation at the Hostels International youth hostel in Toronto. For $28 CDN a night, I can put up with an awful lot, and I've stayed in Canadian hostels before - the ones in British Columbia are very nice indeed. Toronto should be good as well.

Come to think of it, I better phone Amtrak first. Find out what they need me to carry as proof of not being indigent/not planning to stay in Canada. Credit cards, right?

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[lwood.livejournal.com]

My Amtrak trip to Canada was part of a trip around the country (http://www.snugharbor.com/~lwood/trainabout/) on the coolest damn rail pass (http://www.amtrak.com/savings/northeast/promo-passintro.html). I wasn't asked for any proof I didn't intend to stay in Canada, I just turned up at Penn unghodly early to board the Maple Leaf, and showed my passport (which is unneccessarily overkill; a driver's license and SS card or birth cert will do).

When lori and I went by car on I-5 (north from Seattle to Vancouver), it was painless as a toll booth: we just pulled up to the booth, they asked for some ID, and waved us through.

American Customs were, in both cases, more annoying than Canadian.

-- Lorrie