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To: KLP who wrote (1398)	10/30/2002 7:17:55 PM
From: Condor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6901

Do those countries just look at your passport and visa, and say have a nice trip...or do they want to know where you are going, for how long, seeing whom, etc.... Well, most was pre 911 but they do ask purpose of visit and duration but thats it. Show the passport and gone...usually takes about 30 seconds. and probably by now, the car and the passengers.... Not that I have noticed lately. C

To: KLP who wrote (1398)	10/30/2002 9:53:38 PM
From: William B. Kohn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6901

The US is one of the few countries in the world who really opens things up the way we do. In Europe, you have to give your passport to the clerk when you stay in a hotel, you need to supply addresses and they check. I remember years ago in Geneva Switzerland I stayed at a friends house. I didn't lock the door to his apartment and the cops came in, they check every door, every night (or they did). Here we may be to carefree. It is one thing to be an open society with your citizens, quite another to give that freedom to non-citizens. On 911 we learned they aren't all here to see Hollywood and Disneyland! bill@wemaybe2porous.com