Re: passports for NANOG-39, Toronto

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>]

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:19:18 -0400, Joe Abley <jabley () ca afilias info>
wrote:

> On 26-Oct-2006, at 09:26, Michael.Dillon () btradianz com wrote:
>
> > You could do the same fly-drive via Detroit but there is
> > a lot more driving.
>
> Indeed. Rough estimates, excluding time taken to cross the border and  
> assuming good weather:
>
>    BUF to Toronto: 2 hours
>    DTW to Toronto: 5 hours
>    CLE to Toronto: 6 hours
>    LGA to Toronto: 9 hours
>    BOS to Toronto: 9 hours
>    ORD to Toronto: 10 hours
>    IAD to Toronto: 10 hours
Don't neglect the border crossing delay.  Driving home from Montreal after
the IETF, we had to wait close to two hours because of congestion at U.S.
Immigration.  (Of course, that was the way home -- folks going into Canada
had virtually no wait, as best we could see...)


                --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb