High gas prices have some Canadians thinking twice about travelling this summer, while others say it won’t stop them at all.
Cory Madsen, a former Ottawa resident now living in Caronport, Saskatchewan, told The Epoch Times that he keeps downgrading his plans as prices rise. “Yup, was going to drive to Nova Scotia, but then shortened it to Ottawa. Now who knows what.”
Karen Hornby of Nelson, British Columbia, says she has changed her travel plans because she “cannot fill [her] tank with no money.” Instead, she plans to camp at nearby locations on the Kootenay and Slocan lakes.
Others, undeterred, are making trips they can’t put a price on. Kevin Smith and his family will ditch the flatlands in their fifth wheel trailer, then stop in Chilliwack, B.C., before reaching the Pacific Ocean….