luckily monsieur tom has you covered Travel thread - #373 by Tom
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I have been for a week. Besides the obvious things you may already be planning on doing, I thought the catacombs were amazingly cool.
I thought Album comics was really cool for shop recs. I think on the gaming side I didn’t maybe explore as much but all the comic shops were great. I feel like they’re more into war gaming there for the tabletop side which is neat but not really my thing
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haha!! Incredible. I really enjoyed that movie! One of the few I’ve watched in the recent years. Thanks for the past-link. 
catacombs
Album comics
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We cancelled our trip to Montana/Yellowstone next month (got a full refund) because crossing the border was just stressing us out, especially considering my wife’s background. It’s a bit of a bummer, but instead we’ve decided to road-trip around Saskatchewan, exploring a couple national/provincial parks before finally seeing Regina on the way home.
I’ll let you all know how it goes in case any of you ever, for whatever reason, find yourself in this part of the world.
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I apologize on behalf of my country, sincerely.
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We’re still considering canceling our September Portland trip. Basically none of it is refundable between the Amtrack, concert tickets and even the hotel that we paid extra to be able to cancel. Turns out you need to have a travel advisory to the country or something else extreme like unforseen surgery. I’m not mad about the bait and switch.
Okay, I’m mad.
We’ll be out several hundreds if we cancel this and I really want to go to Portland so I dunno. Whole thing’s frustrating. It’s small potatoes compared to what the fascists are doing down there to others, but yeah.
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My Canadian friend wants to come down for my brother’s bachelor party in August but I’m not sure it’s a good idea. He’s also (whispering) not white. It’s tempting to just assume nothing’s going to happen to you, and statistically that’s probably true, but the fear is real considering what could happen if you do draw the short straw. So yeah fuck this idiot country 
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Sorry @brettch I didn’t see this message otherwise would have chipped in a few bits myself! I did mention in a post before some of the places to see and go to here: Travel thread - #373 by Tom so hopefully that’ll help a lot. @Garrett.exe mentioned Album Comics which is in the 5th and has at least four shops for different subjects - they do carry a small selection of English comics but most of their products are in French shockingly!
Honestly I’d skip the games shops as they are good but don’t really have anything that would wow you and they are expensive. If you had more time to visit I’d make the effort to go, but for two days go enjoy the city, eat drink and be merry!
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i have a very important thing to be at in chicago come june and im really, really stressed about risk. i have an X on my passport :/ all it would take is the wrong customs officer or the wrong bureaucrat and …
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That’s stressful. O’Hare airport does see tens of thousands of international travelers daily, there’s a good chance you won’t be the first X passport your customs officer has seen. I haven’t heard any stories of people being turned away yet, and just from a quick google it looks like there’s at least one report of someone going through without an issue.
It might be a good idea to reach out to the US Embassy about your travel plans? I know it’s a bummer to carry anything with binary ID but it might be safer to have as backup if you still have any.
sorry our country sucks so much :(
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thanks, yeah, that might actually be a good idea. i think flying into and out of pearson might offer me a break since that way all of the customs will be handled on the canadian side of the border… worst case they turn me away and i just take a train home… at least i hope so.
im sorry your country sucks so much! i worry a lot for my friends and comrades down there
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