At a very early hour, 7:30 a.m., the passengers and crew of the Yorktown Clipper were herded like lemmings into customs in Prince Rupert, BC. A sort of bermuda triangle of the inside passage. No cell phone service. No tourist traps. No excursions. Very little food. But it was a REAL town, not a t-shirt shop, so it was cute and quiet. We were told that we would have to go through customs and then could return to the ship, but couldn't go out into the town until everyone had been checked. It was the EXACT opposite. So those of us who just grabbed our i.d. and ran down to get checked before breakfast were freezing without our jackets and grumpy without our coffee. Thank you, Cruise Director Jessica. This was just one of the many
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