[Sca-cooks] Hard Liquor

[Terry Decker]

It may have been a half gallon per person, although I vaguely remember the 
customs agent asking me if I was bringing in more than a quart when I came 
out of Alaska back to the 48 in 1972.  It was an interesting experience as I 
was driving a van and looking something like a hippie recruiting poster.  I 
inquired what the limits were so that I would not unknowingly be in 
violation and the agent and I had a polite conversation after which he waved 
me on through.  I noticed that two more upstanding looking citizens (both 
male) were having their shiny new car dismantled in the parking lot.  I 
wondered if they had been ill-mannered when speaking to a customs agent.

When I was living in Mississippi in dry Stone County, I would make my runs 
to Bogalusa, Louisiana, where I was of legal age and the price was lower. 
While going down to the Caribbean to get my booze would have been fun, I 
couldn't have afforded the trip (unless, of course, I was hauling more than 
for personal consumption).

Bear

>
> I think it was more like a gallon, wasn't it, Bear? I remember my dad and
> step-mom coming back from their Carribean vacations with neatlly packaged
> double half gallons of various boozes, cacling about how much they'd 
> saved,
> not thinking about the $1000 it cost to go get the stuff. For a grand at
> that time, I could have slipped over the border into Indiana and gotten
> enough to fill a swimming pool...
>
> Saint Phlip,