DENIED ENTRY INTO CANADA ON MY BIRTHDAY. STUCK IN DETROIT. Read the words about what is happening or just skip to the numbers to see how you can help. Hello loved ones. Today has been a momentous day. After traveling to 19 different countries across 5 continents, I was just denied entry to a country for the first time. Yesterday was my birthday and I planned to celebrate it by crossing the border from Detroit into Canada to visit a friend and work on creative endeavours. I got to Detroit by a combination of hitchhiking, passenger trains, a freight train, buses, sleeping outside, staying with friends I met on the road, crashing with family friends, sleeping in a bathroom stall in a 24-hour casino outside of Chicago, and even treating myself to a night in a hostel for my birthday - all of this in the middle of an arctic blast. After living on the road for over a year now, I have been discovering the joys of living with little to no money and pursuing my passions. For me, my passions have been making honest, accepting, and vulnerable connections with people from all walks of life in different cultures throughout the world. I then reflect these experiences through photographs, films, and writing. However, border security couldnt care less about a person following his/her dreams. In fact, its pretty much their job not to care. Their agenda is to protect Canadians from what they deem are people trying to sneak their way into Canada and take jobs from the locals. This is fair. I have nothing against the officer who deemed that my situation would not allow me to support myself while in Canada. While my mission is to find beauty in people and places around the world, regardless of money, his mission prohibited him from accepting this. The truth is, I have $300 in my bank account. I enjoy eating rice, hitchhiking, and couchsurfing and am able to make this sort of money last a long time. In order to cross the border into Canada, I need to prove to the border security that I have at least $1500 in my bank account and a return ticket home. I have neither of these as I was planning on sipping the money in my account until hitchhiking off to another corner of the globe to find work. Before departing on this particular leg of this magical adventure I call life, I created a home, which I would like to share with you. This home is called tinymuha and is a place for my creative works to reside. Please feel welcome to drop in for a visit and share in some of the delights I have experienced. If you enjoy what you encounter in this home I have built, you can help me get across the border into Canada by exchanging some of your hard-earned dollars for prints of photographs I have crafted. Prices are as low as $1. With Christmas coming up, this just might be a chance to share some inspiration with someone you love and at the same time support an artist on his quest. 1. Do you know anyone in Detroit that could keep me out of the cold while I figure this out? 2. Visit tinymuha and help me get across the border by purchasing a print (starting at only $1). 3. Spread some love, kindness, generosity, and trust in your own community, which will ripple its way to Detroit and keep me warm inside and out. I love all of you.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 20:53:26 +0000
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