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Originally Posted by *Touring Ted*
I've got LOADS of potentially dodgy stamps in my passport from the middle East and Africa.. Will they get their rubber gloves out ? Last time I was in the US in 2003, they scanned my retina, took my finger prints and questioned me for 15 minutes.. I was only in New York for a week at Christmas too. JEEEEEZ
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It's largely a matter of luck, but I've crossed in and out of the US (land and air) with a passport full of stamps quite a few times and had no problems. The occasional keener will ask why all the travel, hoping to uncover some nefarious activity, but a straightforward answer regarding riding across/around the world seems to suit them just fine.
More than a couple of times the border guard has professed to being a biker and even a member of advrider or other user sites.
You might get a hairy eyeball about a stamp from a country on their bad people list, such as Syria, Libya, Nigeria, etc. but in general a straightforward comment that you have to go through some of those places to get to where you are going seems to appease them. I wouldn't worry too much about it.
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