New Brunswick. What can I say? Yes, it is very beautiful, especially in Fall, but unfortunately we didn't have a chance to explore too much, and therefore I didn't take many photos. We spent most of our time waiting for the US land border to open, which kept getting delayed, and then trying to re-insure our van.
The car insurance was the hardest. As foreigners who aren't permanent residents of Canada or the US, and who don't have a fixed address, we found it extremely difficult to re-insure our van. We spent days doing research and calling insurance companies to figure out the best way to go ahead, if there even was a way to do that. British Columbia (where our van was already insured) wouldn't let us re-insure unless we drove the thousands of kilometers back across the country, New Brunswick wouldn't insure us because we didn't have a fixed address in the province, and the US wouldn't insure us for various reasons depending on who we spoke to.
We understand 100% that insurance companies would be taking a risk with us and that that is why most wouldn't insure us, so with 3 days left on our current insurance plan we ended up having drive 4,800km (~3,000 miles) back across the Canada to re-insure in BC.
(the distance we drove in 3 days. Screenshot: Google Maps)
Obviously our travel plans then had to change as well. Instead of crossing into the USA from the east coast, we had to cross on the West Coast, and our border crossing was also made difficult. We crossed near a ski town called Fernie on the 8th November, the day the land border opened. We figured it would be a bit quieter and therefore quicker to pass here. Well, boy, were we wrong!
Days before, when we were doing our insurance research on how to reinsure the van, we called the US Customs office to ask how we would import our van from Canada if we chose to go down that route. Because of this they put a notice on both of our files so when we came through customs we got pulled aside. We were extensively questioned. They had reason to believe that we were illegally bringing the van into the US to then sell. It took us two hours to convince them that, no we don't want to sell our van in the USA (who would want an unimported van anyway?) we just want to travel.
Long story short, after two hours we finally entered the USA. Winter was well on its way so we drove south to Utah to begin our US adventures. And since then we have had seen some exciting places, so stick around because I'll be sharing more on that in the coming days!
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