Yeah, they are cool up there .. one time a friend and i were hitch-hiking into Alaska ..
the entry or not man said, "will you be working?" .. "maybe, if we can find a job" .. that was dumb as he replied ..
"sorry, you can't come in, you don't have a work permit" .. "ok, we won't work" ..
he asked, "how much money do you have?" .. "$400" .. "sorry, you can't come in because it's not enough" .. lol ..
so we got a nice little white piece of paper which said on it "refused entry to the USA" ..
lol, we went back toward the border a bit (it was in between the two custom points back then) and talked our way into fighting a forest fire ..
3 days later a guy with a pick-up truck who only had to wave at the border guy smuggled us in .. ended up in Fairbanks ..
then the rains came .. Reagan declared it a disaster area and we just got out in time ..
it was a fun time ..
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