May 30, 2010 Time to go home

Up for another day on the road. We didn't use the shower facilities - we would have liked to but didn't feel like standing in line. Oh well an hour plus the border paperwork and we will be home. Had our breakfast, hitched up and headed north. When we got to the border - We bought a bottle of booze each (Bailey's) at the duty free shop and proceeded to Canadian side to clear customs and start the import procedure.

We had imported our previous trailer as well so were aware of the procedures. Declare your trailer, fill in the paperwork, pay the GST and on our way in about half an hour. The next morning we logged onto www.RIV.ca , entered our file information from the border , pay the import fee (this covers the inspection at Canadian Tire as well), email a copy of your recall letter from the manufacturer and then wait for your file to be processed. We had a return email that afternoon with our inspection letter which we had to take to Canadian Tire for them to perform the import inspection. This wasn't going to be a problem as there was already a compliance sticker on the trailer meeting US and Canadian standards. If you do plan to import a trailer from the US make sure there is at the very least a US compliance sticker on your trailer - without it you can't import the trailer. I called Canadian Tire and they said come in anytime as there was no appointment required for the inspection. We will do the inspection in a week or so. We still have to get a trailer hitch for the Jetta so will probably do that the same day.

Our new Little Guy Rascal beside our Funfinder. Looks like she had a baby  and we didn't even know she was seeing anyone!