Idependence day

It is officially independence day in Northern Michigan. Tomorrow Residents will be able to go into town freely with out being cut off by some out of town moron pulling a travel trailer with a boat hooked up behind that. We can step into a check out line at the store with out the rude City folks who bring their big city /down state attitude stepping in front of us because they are in a hurry. My little paved country road can now rest a little, And no longer be a race or high speed testing track. All day has been steady traffic of camper trailers, motor homes, boats and RVs heading south. I love summer the best, but sure look forward to Labor day so most tourists go home till next year. We always wait till late evening to go into town just to avoid congestion. We now can go when we want or need. Maybe even get to go fishing or swimming. God Bless Independence Day.

Yeabut what about snowmobile season?

The tree leaves will start changing color in a few weeks too, that should bring out lots of leaf peepers!

Moan, Moan , Moan, but their money is still green and it keeps your local town alive. Try to survive without them.

(quoted from post at 17:10:22 09/05/16) Moan, Moan , Moan, but their money is still green and it keeps your local town alive. Try to survive without them.

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For sure. Come to Kansas and take a look at a few little towns that haven't seen a tourist dollar since the interstate highways were built. They at least used to sell gas to tourists but with the interstates the folks just cruise on by. Many times you cannot even see the town from the highway, let alone be tempted to stop for something. Those little towns would trade problems with you.

I was making a delivery to the Co-op in a small town in western Kansas. Main street was mostly empty store fronts, pretty sad looked like it once was a nice place.

City people always in a hurry. Phone in one hand, attitude in the other....

I don't live in a little village, I live in the country. But, the road I live on turns into State Road, which used to be old 27. It's paved for a long ways and a lot of people take it to avoid 127. But they don't look at their actual maps and the river screws up that long stretch where it heads east, directly into 127 2 miles down. The only way off it is to head south on gravel, which the people going by don't want to do because they can't drive 65 on gravel like they do by my house, and they don't want to get dust on their BMW or Mercedes. Especially bad on holiday weekends, I can tell by the amount of traffic going by my house how bad it us on 127. When a camper/boat combo goes by and gets trapped by the curve here, they drive right on past the gravel and right to 127, where they cannot get on. They'll be lined up a quarter or half mile deep for half an hour. I usually don't go anywhere near the highway on Thursday, Friday, Sunday Night, because it is impossible to cross let alone try to get onto 127 with everyone driving 75 mph. So if I have to go somewhere on the weekend I go early in the morning, or late at night. If I get stuck at the other farm after traffic gets bad, it's about 16 miles out of my way to be able to cross the river and get across the highway. Summer Sunday afternoons are the only time I usually have to look before I cross the road to the farm.

YEp, it's over here too. We will have a couple of more weeks while the weather is good that the summer folks will still be coming up before they close their lake homes for the year. Weather wasn't so good today. Rained last night and was cloudy with showers till noon. Lot of em were headed out early going back to the city today. Only a few boats out on the lake this afternoon. But we have a lot of people here who rely on that summer income to make it through they year. Lot of kids who graduated high school in May needed those temp summer jobs for college money this fall. I like right on a state highway. Normally I don't have any problem getting on the highway but this summer the traffic was bad. I had to wait at the end of the drive for traffic to clear more often than in the past and for longer periods.

Rick

It is just starting for us. In my part of Texas. Deer season starts soon.Buy fuel on Thursday night. So we don't have to put up with the crowds where the gas stations are. Two to three wrecks a day is common for the weekends now.Yes they bring in money. But no need to be rude about it.

Sounds exactly like Clearwater Mn, where I'm from. Biggest 1,500 person town in America.

During the weekend for six months a year I won't even go into town except for church Sunday mornings.

Enjoy until April.

Right next to me is campground full of people getting away there parked about 4 feet apart. For entertainment they jump on a 4 wheeler and spread garbage up and down the pretty side roads there real ambitious you can hear them 24 hours yes they bring money in but is it worth it? Real fun is when they like the country living so well they built houses and then expect you to live the way they think you should.

It's called tourist season, Why cant we shoot them?

I live in the dunes country of Northwest Indiana.
thirty five or so miles from "The City" (chicago).

Steve A W

We will remember all these comments in a few months when all you snow birds are coming south for some warm relief.

John in La- LOL! Now that was funny!
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Maybe you are all set but I bet that a lot of your neighbors would be in tough shape without the money that they bring.

Opposite here in ND, the out of state waterfowl hunters will be pouring in and destroying our rural roads which are muddy from fall rains for which the townships get NO COMPENSATION.

Yes, the motels and bars in the bigger towns do well, but "here on the ground" where the damage gets done, we get NOTHING.

There was a big to do about that kind of thing on the news last night. Somebody over around Frankenmuth posted something on social media wishing tourists would get out of town and stay out. Of course the media wasn't kind to him.

Reminds me of a resolutions committee meeting we had at Michigan Milk Producers one time though over this Rails to Trails deal. They wanted to convert a rail road that went right through a milk plant property. They wanted a resolution opposing the whole concept. A couple of delegates from the U.P. spoke up and said they liked it up there and wanted more because it brought in more tourists to fleece. I guess it's all a matter of perspective.

Just the opposite here the University students are back.