November 8, 2018:

They would take visitors across the Canadian border. It's something like me showing folks around town: they did it with everyone. It's just thirty minutes and it's something to do.

I was absolutely thrilled. A foreign country! I'd never even been out of San Diego before. It was the one moment of that first trip which had anything at all to do with me.

I came home with a pocket full of Canadian change and both legs covered with mosquito bites. It was summer in Montana.