Diana and Rick Bellamy initially planned to take a Caribbean cruise out of Houston before heading to Laurel, Miss., to visit the home of one of their favourite HGTV shows, “Home Town.”
The Calgary couple scrapped those plans and vacationed last month along Mexico’s Pacific coast instead, put off by U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada, the insults he’s hurled at their homeland, and stories about American border agents searching people’s phones and detaining foreigners for minor reasons.
She found it ironic that she felt more comfortable traveling to Mexico than the U.S.
“I never thought I would hear myself say that,” Diane Bellamy said.
