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This thread reminds me of a rather embarassing experience I had with border patrol that someone might be able to learn from.

I was heading out camping a year or two ago to west Texas. I was taking HWY 90 South, and if anyone is familiar with that, you have to take a 90 degree turn at a stop light to stay on HWY 90 or you'll head right into Mexico. And apparently the giant Mexico sign didn't mean anything to me.

Since this was a camping trip I had a good stash of guns in my trunk. I was about halfway across the bridge in bumper to bumper traffic (as always) when it finally hit me. I was about to take guns into Mexico! I panicked and made a u-turn right there on the bridge and headed back for US soil.

I told the guy at the booth what had happened and he gave me a piece of paper to take to the BP on the side to get searched. My wife and I got out of the car and I told them I had guns with me (in the trunk) before they asked (this was before I was a CHL). They opened up all my cases and quickly looked over my guns. Fortunately they didn't give me any problems. I was sure to ask for directions back to HWY 90 so I could get on my way.

So that's the protocal for getting searched on the way back. I'm sure my u-turn was suspicious enough. I still can't believe my sheer stupidity in how long it took me to realize where I was going.