fladogfan wrote:We are so spoiled in the USA with going state to state and not even thinking how wonderful it is to not have border checks at every state line.
Actually, we don't have it in Europe either, because we have a cooperation which many of the countries are a part of (almost everyone on main Europe, not UK for instance), called Schengen. Which means that I can travel across borders pretty much as I please. The Norwegian border is the longest border in Europe, most of it are in big wood areas or mountains, there are several places to cross the borders many of the crossings does not have any customs present. But I'm not sure what rules applies to a US citizen and traveling with a full team of dogs. So I'm quite sure that the easiest is to stay in Norway.
One of the legs in FL is river traveling on a river which is the border between Norway and Finland (actually, that part is run both ways), there is also part of the race where they are very close to the Russian border (I think they cross a lake which is partly in Norway and partly in Russia).