The comments about traffic imbedded in the aluminum guwale thread got me thinking how traffic affects where we choose to trip.
Comments about Mass and Maine had me laughing. You all realize that when you all come at the same time you create traffic? We have no traffic here off season. When you all come we either stay home and trip locally or flee to Canada. My town goes from three to eighteen thousand in July.. People say they have seen Maine. Usually they have been to BarHarbor. Pop.. umpty thousand in the summer. In the winter 1,100.
I find it very easy to trip here. Most all destinations are reachable by the Maine Turnpike and I 95 north of Auburn/Lewiston( LA here). Little traffic at all . Yet people crawl up the old Indian trail called Rt 1 in the summer because they want to eat lobster or something like that. And they sit in Wiscasset ( due to recent decisions you will continue to sit there)
Its true that all roads are windy. All of them are historic trails.. Nothing new much has been engineered. Mass is much like QC in that there is a village every two miles. Mass has been settled by Euros a long time you know. The difference from QC is that all towns have different names and not named after saints.
That said there are cities that impact my tripping. I will never trip in the Boundary Waters because I find traffic from Ohio to Chicago to be intolerable. (plus getting to Quetico is faster with only Montreal being a pain ( and thanks to Autoroute 30 this headache has been relieved) and Ottawa at rush hour. North Bay is incredibly annoying with a population of only 75,000 but its just a series of traffic lights that have sixteen direction multifunctions which means lunch can be eaten at the red light.
Maryland..uh.. no.. As much as Assateague beckons that Rt 13 is annoying. I can get around NYC pretty well with a I 84-to 81 run to Florida but destinations in NJ involve immersion on the Tappan Zee.... currently under construction!
The Adirondacks are just 220 miles from my house. Due to only 37 miles of interstate and a ferry, the journey to Saranac Lake is eight hours. And you want traffic...go to the High Peaks in July.. It makes me grateful for home! We are about the same latitude as Elizabethtown so that is the town we hit first. Not bad up to Placid..then uggh
Newfoundland has proven twice to be easy to get to if you reserve the ferry early.. Next time we will try the Trans Labrador Highway with no ferry.
The reason we moved to Maine is that ugh Connecticut traffic. It is paralyzing. I don't know how people live in the southern edge of that along the shore or in the i-84 corridor.
Comments about Mass and Maine had me laughing. You all realize that when you all come at the same time you create traffic? We have no traffic here off season. When you all come we either stay home and trip locally or flee to Canada. My town goes from three to eighteen thousand in July.. People say they have seen Maine. Usually they have been to BarHarbor. Pop.. umpty thousand in the summer. In the winter 1,100.
I find it very easy to trip here. Most all destinations are reachable by the Maine Turnpike and I 95 north of Auburn/Lewiston( LA here). Little traffic at all . Yet people crawl up the old Indian trail called Rt 1 in the summer because they want to eat lobster or something like that. And they sit in Wiscasset ( due to recent decisions you will continue to sit there)
Its true that all roads are windy. All of them are historic trails.. Nothing new much has been engineered. Mass is much like QC in that there is a village every two miles. Mass has been settled by Euros a long time you know. The difference from QC is that all towns have different names and not named after saints.
That said there are cities that impact my tripping. I will never trip in the Boundary Waters because I find traffic from Ohio to Chicago to be intolerable. (plus getting to Quetico is faster with only Montreal being a pain ( and thanks to Autoroute 30 this headache has been relieved) and Ottawa at rush hour. North Bay is incredibly annoying with a population of only 75,000 but its just a series of traffic lights that have sixteen direction multifunctions which means lunch can be eaten at the red light.
Maryland..uh.. no.. As much as Assateague beckons that Rt 13 is annoying. I can get around NYC pretty well with a I 84-to 81 run to Florida but destinations in NJ involve immersion on the Tappan Zee.... currently under construction!
The Adirondacks are just 220 miles from my house. Due to only 37 miles of interstate and a ferry, the journey to Saranac Lake is eight hours. And you want traffic...go to the High Peaks in July.. It makes me grateful for home! We are about the same latitude as Elizabethtown so that is the town we hit first. Not bad up to Placid..then uggh
Newfoundland has proven twice to be easy to get to if you reserve the ferry early.. Next time we will try the Trans Labrador Highway with no ferry.
The reason we moved to Maine is that ugh Connecticut traffic. It is paralyzing. I don't know how people live in the southern edge of that along the shore or in the i-84 corridor.
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