I remember when we were getting ready to retire from the Air Force in 2002 and looking at the dollar when it was 61.7 cents and wondering if it was worth buying our coach and if we would travel through the US to much. We decided we would just be a little frugal and do it anyway. Now the loonie is at 75 cents which is a lot better than what we thought it would be. When the loonie was close to a dollar we bough a piece of property here so we are not complaining. The loonies sweet spot is around 70 to 80 cents as far as the Canadian economy is concerned. Trade surplus etc etc. I think what is happening really in the case of the Texas snowbirds etc is there is a change of the guard with the present snowbirds to the next. There are lots of Canadian snowbirds here in California in their mid 50s to early 70's. The snowbird age group in texas seemed much older to us. We were stunned to see all these campgrounds with shuffle board and bag toss games etc. Like being in a time warp. Here is is golf, hiking , biking, tennis etc. Some of the parks there need to modernize a bit. Maybe put in a gym, non smoking RV parks etc. There will be more new snowbirds coming out of Canada soon enough but areas and parks will have to compete for them.