Letter: Crossing Over, in a More Innocent Time

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Re "Bonjour, America!," by Stephen R. Kelly (Op-Ed, July 24):

We married in May 1967 and drove up to Quebec for our honeymoon. We meandered pleasantly through New Hampshire, assuming lazily that we were heading in the right direction. We knew that we were when we arrived at a modest roadside sign that read, more or less (it was 46 years ago):

"You are about to cross the border into Canada. If you need to speak with a border official, please turn around and drive 12 miles to the town of X, where the offices are."

We didn't, so we didn't.

The road continued dreamily through the same countryside, and the first proof that we had entered another country came when we pulled up at a gas station and the young man said "bonjour."

In the context of today's immigration and border hysteria, it seems like a dream sequence. But then, so do the group outings we used to take to the airport to have coffee and breakfast after a party and watch the planes take off.

No wonder there is a perennial generation gap: this relaxed ease must seem mythological to a generation brought up to consider shoe removal, pat-downs and "naked" X-rays a necessary norm.

JOSEPHINE NOVAK
New York, July 25, 2013

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