Monday, July 17, 2006

Traveling in Canada

Wednesday, JULY 5: We wanted to look around Calgary today, especially the 1988 Oympic Park area. But were reminded by one of the brochures picked up at an info center, we had FORGOTTEN to get the "Canada Non-Resident Inter-Province Motor Liability Insurance" card before leaving home. This is new to us, maybe that's why we forgot it. At any rate, we spent all day in the campground trying to get the info faxed to us from our agent. We needed it for both the motorhome and the pick-up we are towing. Finally towards the end of the day, our agent e-mailed copies of the cards. Boy, they are difficult to read, but will work.

Meanwhile, we drove nowhere. We both felt it was a risk we were not willing to take in such a large city. Calgary in the past five years has grown to over a million people.

In conversation with some of the other Good Sam people, we discovered most had not picked up this liability insurance card. It didn't make us feel any better, but made us realize...this must be a pretty new requirement.

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