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And what if you still accidently pass the campsite? I know, sometimes things do not always go as planned.
Then you just patiently go around again and come back to it. Patience, grasshopper, lower your expectations of yourself. Getting easily frustrated over such a small thing is not a good way to start off a laid back and relaxing camping trip.
USD is accepted at par in most of the country, the booze was illegal, and the "rent a cops" are enforcers with police powers/peace officer status (sorry, the lack of horse and red jacket is confusing). And you have the audacity to talk about shooting cops? Unbelievable. Stay in Michigan, you don't belong in international borders.
This is hilarious! Really--the cops were in a car?! In a national or provincial park? I bet Dudley Do-right would've been more polite. BTW, where were the cute bears?
Ah, old threads are fun. Gotta salvage some humor out of the cranky ones.
OP, why would you expect stores to take foreign currency? That doesn't make any sense. You can get Canadian dollars at your hometown bank in advance of your trip, you know. Or exchange at a Canadian bank after crossing the border. Canada is not an extension of the US. Would you expect to be able to go into a store in Germany or England, and pay in US $$? You can't do that in Mexico.
While everything you’ve said is 100% true Ruth, there are always exceptions to the rule.
I drove a licenced London “Black Cab” for just shy of 30 years and I took U.S. dollars willingly, I couldn’t get enough of them, although my exchange rate made grown men cry.
I hasten to add that I didn’t put a gun to anyone’s head, I’d always accept CC or stop at an ATM if they wished, but if the fare really wanted to pay in U.S. currency it would be on my terms.
Consequently, on our annual vacation trips to FL, GA, NY, AZ or CA I already had a chunk of greenbacks and rarely paid restaurant or bar bills by CC, and rarely used an ATM.
I did the same with the euro, and had weekends in Paris, Madrid or Rome where I never went near a bureau de change.
In the same vein, I have a lot of family in Northern France and when I would visit in my twenties, I’d sometimes drift over the border with my cousins to bars in Belgian towns.
The bars would take French francs and add a percentage on, this I guess was to cover bank charges when they paid the French francs into the bank along with their Belgian francs.
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