Since my wife's family is in Ogdensburg NY and mine is in Detroit MI Amy and I go through customs quite a bit doing the family thing. Evrytime it is always the same -

Canada -

"Good day, what is the purpose of your visit today? What is your citizen ship? How long will you be in Canada? Do you have anything to declare?"

"Driving through to Detroit, about 9-10 hours and no sir."

"Very good. Have a pleasent day."

Occasionally they do a scan of the car, about 5 minutes.

Detroit -

""Why were you in Canada? How long were you there? What did you buy? Why were you in Canada? What is you purpose of trip? Are you carrying any fire arms, weapons or explosives? Can you prove you're an American? A military ID is invalid. DO you know how many foriegners are in OUR military? And why were you in Canada?"

And on and on... We sat there once for half an hour going through the third degree.

They even were going to have us unwrap every Christmas present we had in the trunk.

You would think with the amount of traffic that goes through the Windsor/Detroit crossings that this would be a standard thing and a little more professional.

Jim