It also said Canada may retailiate by requiring Americans to show passports. But FWIW, I wouldn't travel to the US without my passport now, anyway. Especially by air.

I travel back and forth to the US without a valid passport all the time, and have for years. I use my driver's license, and I have an expired passport as backup. However, as readers of my LJ are painfully aware, I have now have proof of Canadian citizenship again, and will be getting a new Cdn passport in the near future.

You're legally supposed to have proof of citizenship and ID to cross the border

That's what I'd thought -- but I know people who travel on nothing (Detroit/Windsor tunnel), and I may have just looked at the floor on an impromptu expedition or two. And the article states just a license will do. Don't know if that's de jure.

Not bright behaviour.

If I had balls of steel, I could have been travelling on my driver's license this whole time.

They'd have to be not only steel, but stolen.

They'd have to be not only steel, but stolen.

Which isn't easy since, logically, they'd have to stolen from someone who has balls of steel.

Hey, that reminds me. Passport expires in a few months. Need to go get more pictures taken. Probably should submit a new picture for my credit card as well. It's a nice picture but....my hair isn't that long and I'm not 19.

JohnSweden - what's your lj name?

And the article states just a license will do. Don't know if that's de jure.

Legally, I'm pretty sure you have to have a DL and birth certificate, if you don't have a passport.

In practice, I used to travel to Canada with only a DL all the time. But since 9/11 I've been carrying my passport. (Driving, you still don't really need one to get into Canada, but getting back into the US has gotten to be much more of an ordeal.)

Yeah, I know a lot of people who've gone with just their license--they'll lecture you about it now, but generally let you cross. (Paul didn't have his birth certificate with him when we went up for Gram's wake.)

Realistically, I don't see how this is going to actually tighten security any more than actually enforcing the rules would.

They'd have to be not only steel, but stolen.

I figure stealing steel balls is easier than growing them, and not just for chicks.

Question for non morning people:

What's up? No, I mean, what does non-morning mean? You wake up slowly? You wake up too soon? What, outside of stimulants, fixes the gronk? Not taxing yourself for a long time after waking up? Waking up later? Going to sleep earlier?

I mean, it's not just being sleepy, is it? Or is it? When I'm underslept (like now), coffee opens my eyes but makes me tense. And when the caffeine wears off, the tiredness comes back. Nothing makes it go away but sleep. So I will be in the afternoon the same disgruntled way I was in the AM.

Which is normally how it is -- I wake up just fine, and often early and before an alarm clock.

So I was wondering.

I'm counting the days until my passport expires. I desperately want a new picture taken. (The current one is so unspeakably awful that I'm insulted whenever border guards accept it as valid ID. I want them to look at it and say "No way! You're much better looking than that!")