A MAN SAID I WAS REALLY HOT!!

It's true!! It was a border guard, and he had a little black box that was beeping wildly every time he brought it near me....and he was referring to my level of radiation.....but I still got excited to hear someone say I was hot.....(really hot).

I had my heart scan Tue am...they inject me with radioactive crap for the scan and give me a sticker that explains what it was in case I am crossing the border... the tech told me that they would know I was there 2 or 3 cars back... I was skeptical - but she was right. A guard approached the car while we were in line still and asked if anyone had had a medical procedure recently.... of course we said yes and he wrote on a red post-it form and stuck it on the window....

As we approached the booth there was a brief discussion in the car on whether we would declare the cooked ham we had in the cooler....(this will become relevant later on....) we handed over our passports, & then he sent us immediately over to the 'building'... so we had to go inside with our red sticker...as we were leaving the car, we figured they were going to search our vehicle and we would get busted for having ham.... but we had our 'story' ready since no one had actually asked us if we had anything to declare. They only asked us about the medical procedure....

Once we got into the building,we saw people in the line ahead of us with that sticker too, and then, when we were waiting in the line, a large number of people began streaming into the building all with red stickers.....

So the guy who told me I was hot also explained to us that the sensors are extremely sensitive and he knew I was REALLY HOT because I had set the sensors off in ALL THREE of the open lanes. We were second in line to the booth when he came over to us in the line with the sticker. Turns out that 3 rows of cars in ALL THREE LANES were sent in....I counted 12 people after I realized. Some might have escaped my count before we clued in to what had happened. I kept apologizing to people since it was obvious to everyone who had caused the problem.... They have to take a bunch of surrounding cars so that terrorists don't send someone through who's had a medical procedure so that they can slip through the border behind them...

The guard had to ask me to go across the room because they wanted to take the black box to all the other people and if I was too close, it would set it off.... The big yellow sensors that you drive through are way more sensitive than the handheld boxes inside are.....

So, after my experience, I highly recommend NOT trying to smuggle any radioactive materials across the line.... they will catch you.

After 45 mins or so, they let us leave - and not one person asked us why were going to the US, or any of the usual questions at all...

So while radiactive material is a no-go... if you want to smuggle ham or fruit or anything else that you're not meant to have, get a MUGA scan before going across the line - apparently they are way more concerned about bomb-making material than ham....

Even when we crossed into California, they stopped us at a booth and asked if we had any fresh fruit..... but still no ham questions!

Currently we're at a Motel 6 in Santa Nella - and we had supper at Pea Soup Andersons..... the big windmill you see from the freeway. You get all-you-can-eat pea soup and bread, plus a beverage (which included milkshake as a choice) for only $8.50!!!

You pay $2.99 for 24 hrs of wi-fi and I'm posting this on a 7" laptop with miniature keyboard.... things are not moving very quickly... LOL

It was 23 degrees out today - one more day of driving and we'll be lounging by the pool with a beverage in hand!