Day 165

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Created on Thursday, 18 February 2016 05:22

2016/02/16    Vancouver (Canada)

Today was a pretty successful day, because we already got back our Deloreans!
After breakfast we drove to the Canadian customs where our carnets and customs documents were filled in and stamped. The whole process was done quite unbureaucratic in less then an hour.

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With the documents we went about 10 km/6 miles to the warehouse of our transport agency. There our Deloreans were kept in the meantime after arriving in Vancouver. After some more copies and form checks we were allowed to receive our cars back.

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Because we have been there with our rental car, Andre and Wolfgang primarily drove their Deloreans back to the hotel. Klaus drove in front with the rental car as it had a navigation system. After only one kilometer driving, the first emergency light appeared behind us and the police pulled us over! Two friendly police officers asked for Canadian number plates which we obviously didn’t have. After considering all papers and insurance document as correct, we were allowed to continue our journey.
Half an hour later we went for fetching Klaus’s car at the warehouse. Again another police car with flashing lights pulled us over… Once more all our documents were correct and a little bit later all three Deloreans were standing at the hotel’s parking lot.

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Subsequently we went over to the nearby Canadian-Tire-Shop, where from Germany we already had ordered twelve winter tires. We arranged a date for the installing by tomorrow morning.

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So far everything is going well. If there only wouldn’t be the problem concerning our visa…
January 21st 2016 (!) the US immigration rules were changed and all our already received electronically visas / ESTAs are no more valid because we visited Iran in September last year.
Thus we had to request completely new visitor-visas in Vancouver short term. The first possible appointment would have been the 1st of March which would render all our travelling plans useless. Fortunately, there is a quicker procedure, our request for an earlier appointment was accepted. Now we are scheduled for the visa-interview at the US-Consulate at the 18th of February.
All the rest is now depending on how quickly we can receive our new visas.