Hello Canada! And Back To Washington!
Mari
Greetings from Whalen’s Campground and RV Park, Point Roberts, Washington!! Point Roberts is that teensy piece of land joined onto B.C., Canada but it’s actually part of Washington State!
Even though it was featured in the August 2004 issue of National Geographic, “Almost Heaven, Almost Canada,” Point Roberts remains one of Washington State’s best kept secrets. “The Point” is a tiny peninsula that dips below the 49th parallel off lower mainland British Columbia, Canada. We are only 35 minutes away from Vancouver, and minutes away from the BC Ferries…
Ty and I drove up from Bothell (north of Seattle) earlier today and got a kick out of crossing the US/Canada border twice in the space of about one hour.
I’d tweeted about a concern I had: we’d just purchased a bunch of groceries before we realized it could all get confiscated at the border. Hm. One of my Twitter buds suggested crossing at Aldergrove instead.
But, after viewing the border cams and wondering if we could take the extra half hour out of my schedule, we went for the regular Peace Arch crossing… and it worked out fine. No mention of food stuff - just weapons. I got a good laugh at my Twitter bud’s comment, “…almost makes sense. Our terrorists never carry tomatoes.”
And it sure made me smile when the customs official asked us where we live - and our response was in our RV! He asked us another couple times before it sank in. LOL.
We’re up in this neck of the woods to attend another seminar - Ray Edwards and Dr. Andrew Jones’ Speed Money Seminar, all about internet marketing - held at the Hilton Vancouver Airport hotel. Dr. Jones also runs a busy veterinarian practice in Nelson, BC close by where my mum lives in the Kootenays… and Dr. Jones is where she takes her cat! Ah, small world.
It’s been a wild couple weeks - as mentioned in my last post, we ended up driving 800 miles in just over 24 hours (not in two days as we first planned!) Amazing! We did get some decent rest in there. And then enjoyed a day of R&R before I plowed through a 3-day stretch of business calls, followed by jumping on a plane to Columbus, Ohio for six days …and we only got back late last night, as I outlined in our itinerary here.
Mari & Kevin Nations standing at vault door! 
/ Class from Big Ticket Blueprint, Columbus, Ohio.
Posted on: Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 4:37 pm 
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I can really relate to your experience:
>> we ended up driving 800 miles in just over 24 hours (not in two days as we first planned!) <<
whenever we make our annual trip to North Carolina (683.7 miles), we end up driving it in one day. With kids, it’s a 13 hour drive…without, it’s an 11 hour drive (amazingly enough, the husband and I have no interest in the McDonald’s Playland)
Enjoy,
Barbara
Barbara Ling’s last blog post.. You’re too freakin’ old to learn how to make money with a blog - HAH!
May 9th, 2008 at 7:11 amMari Gal!
You have got it goin’ on and you look fabulous! How was the “Speed Money Seminar” and what did you learn?
Looks like you and Ty are gonna make it! You have survived together on the road for HOW LONG??? Whew!
It was time I caught up with your travels and how exciting as always. Stay in touch with all that border criss crossing so we don’t lose you to the Cannucks!
May 10th, 2008 at 4:41 pmHugs to you both,
Alexandra