American Peter Starkel has had Regina on his list of places to visit for nearly three decades. But this past weekend, as he crossed the city off his bucket list, he noticed an unusual reaction from the locals.
“What struck me most [is] when I came into the airport, I went through customs and he said, ‘What’s the nature of your visit?'” Starkel said.
“I said I’m just touring. And the guy laughed at me.”
Starkel said that became a continual theme during his visit and a first in his many years of visiting different countries.
“I’ve never had anybody call me out for coming to a place.”
Starkel’s inclination to visit Saskatchewan’s capital city started back when he lived in Colorado in the 1990s. He would regularly tune into a local cable access channel on which the TV presenter would read out local events, before randomly ending with a …