Nearly two years of being caged in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic has some snowbirds anxiously waiting in their motorhomes and trailers in southern Alberta.
The Eight Flags Campground in the small windswept town of Milk River, 18 kilometres from the Canada-United States border crossing at Coutts, is full of shiny, large RVs.
“All of a sudden someone said the border's opening and it just went nuts here,” said Helen Runka, who operates the campground. The campground, which has 35 sites, has twice the number of bookings for this weekend. Some overflowparking is being offered near a baseball diamond in the town.“The one over there on Site 3 will have been here 18 days by the time he goes over the border,” she said.Donna Call and her husband from Calgary pulled into the campground on Oct. 21 on their way to Brenda, Ariz.
Don Breckenridge from Langham, Sask., said he had hoped to be pulling into an RV parkin Las Vegas on Oct. 31. So he's growing anxious.“It's just going to be a zoo in here the last night before it opens. It's just because people want to get down before it's really snowing bad.”
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