Tourist season opened this weekend

[Geezer in NH]

Tourist season opened this weekend. The big question in VT, NH, ME is what do you like best tourist season or blackfly season?

Tourist answer is Tourist season.

Native answer is Blackfly season, it's only 3 weeks and when the bother you, you can slap them silly, and no one complains.

The natives greeting this weekend is "their back"

Next is if they could just send their money and stay home.

[FISH4BUGS]

I love New Hampshire dearly, but I'll take black flies (a/k/a flying teeth) any day. At least I can put on my fly net outfit (yes it looks stupid but unless you have personal experience with black flies you wouldn't understand ) when I garden or do yard work. I can lather up in bug juice and be fine for 10 minutes.
Tourists are exactly why I moved out of Portsmouth and went to the country. I lived right dead downtown for 25 years and while it was great when I was younger, the fights, the drunks, the vandalism, the cars, the loud motorcycles and the hordes of Massachusetts and New York tourists made it awful.
Tourists are here for 3 months or more, and the black flies are at least gone in two-three weeks.
The tourists never get the hang of one way streets....
Yup....just leave your money and get the hell out.

[Finster101]

Welcome to my world! We just get them heavier in the winter.

[Bogart]

I'll take the Black flies any day, I live in an older small development on a lake near Alton Bay, over half the homes are owned by PFA, loud, dirty and rude. Garbage everywhere, garbage day is Tuesday, most go home Sunday night and just leave bags of garbage by the road, not even smart enough to use a can. Let's just say the crows and raccoons eat good and we spend the week cleaning up the mess.
Everyone in the development has rights to the beach. They take it over and act like *****s, not even worth trying to go swimming. Nevermind the huge sign they put in the middle of the beach destroying the beautiful view. Locals cheer Labor day

[Finster101]

It's gotta' be bad when it draws out a guy who has been here 11 years and only posted 19 times.

[Maven]

Our season will soon be upon us as well. However, autumn foliage and an abundance of pumpkins for sale truly bring out what me wife calls "the bumpkin lookers" as they think we're all rubes up here.

[jim 44-40]

Here in PA, it gets crazy in the summer with out of state driver's flocking in to see our run down bridges,pot holes and the lowest gas prices this side of the Mississippi. I call it the orange cone State!

[Bmi48219]

Welcome to my world! We just get them heavier in the winter.

Yep, only winter starts mid-November and ends after Easter. Tourists have an excuse, they’re not here long enough to figure out where they’re going.

[Winger Ed.]

Between the heat and the mosquitos, we don't get very many tourists here.
Even the weekenders tend to not come out as often as in the Spring & Fall.

[Hogdaddy]

Welcome to my world! We just get them heavier in the winter.

It all depend on the bag limit on tourist Yellow flies will get ya down here ; )
H/D

[LAH]

They spray black flies here on the New & the rafting business has taken the river. The Boy Scout Camp is a pain & took several square miles of hunting land away. The roads of full of SXS who run the trails here in the hills. Then there is ski season. Where do all these people come from?

[Bmi48219]

Next season I’m going to keep track which drivers from which states / provinces make the most left turns from the right lane. If the price of gas ever comes down I plan to visit those states in their tourist season. My revenge will be puttering along at a snail’s pace during rush hour just to ball up traffic, probably throw in some pointing, gawking and practice riding the brake pedal too.

[rockrat]

Seems like our tourist season started about a month ago.

Hey guys, if I head to NH to visit, would I still be considered a tourist since I lived there when I was a kid??? Dad was stationed at Pease

[FISH4BUGS]

Probably not....at least you MIGHT remember how to get around.
Pease is closed as an active AF Base, but they still have the NHANG tanker fleet.
The land has been developed into business sites and the companies have 10,000 employees now.
SIG has its HQ here.
Still too many tourists, though. You might not even like the place.
It has become a neo-colonial theme park.

[jim 44-40]

No sales tax in NH?

[Wayne Smith]

Well, 27 years ago when we moved from NH to VA LMOL calculated the cost of living between them. NH no income tax and no sales tax, but everything costs - user fees. VA has both sales tax and income tax - but the cost of living was almost perfectly even between them. NH just has a different was of collecting the money.

[sharps4590]

Is there a bag limit on tourists?

Unfortunately we get a taste of it here. Mostly it's city types come down to float and litter up the creeks and rivers, get drunk and make a nuisance of themselves but, out of staters do their share as well. Go in the middle of the week and on streams too small to float a canoe and it's fine...if you stay away from Forest Service campgrounds. I understand the St. Louis and Western Illinois Navy performs maneuvers on Lake of the Ozarks during the summer. My presence hasn't graced that cess pool in 50 years and it was bad then.

[Rapier]

Only allowed one per season. But; Here you should be allowed the taking of them by a PU when they are riding on the highway with a bicycle more than two riders wide and at a speed below 30 mph less than the posted speed limit.

[Bmi48219]

…when they are riding on the highway with a bicycle more than two riders wide and at a speed below 30 mph less than the posted speed limit.

I have nothing against people wanting to be physically active and healthy. But bicycling on public thoroughfares seems about as healthy as a chain saw manicure. The oft-quoted “Same Road-Same Rules” excuse is scant protection from the damage a ton or more of metal can do to a human body, even when that bicyclist is following all the rules of the road. Most aren’t.

[contender1]

I was raised in the middle of a popular tourist trap. I now live just a few miles away from my original home. I had to work all the weekends,, & put up with all their crap. Once I got out of HS,, I enlisted in the Army. I didn't have to work as many weekends. Once I left the Army,, I swore I'd not work the tourist crap ever again.

But,, one thing has eluded me all these years. I've searched,, asked in every possible place,, went to my county & state offices,, did an on-line search. NADA. I have never been able to buy a "Tourist hunting license." They call it tourist season,, yet they are cruel & not allow us to hunt them.

Besides the rude behavior, or the attitudes they bring,, they look down upon the locals. But the worst part is their driving habits. We live in an area,, where we have 2-lane loads. In one section, (3) main roads feed into ONE winding, curvy, road through (2) towns. Forget posted speed limits,, they don't even get close. Stopping just to go around a curve,, (yes,, a steering wheel does move more than 2 degrees.) Basically,, total disrespect for everybody else around them on the road. If they can do something wrong,, they will. From stopping in the middle of the road, blocking traffic to take a picture,, to never pulling over, allowing traffic to pass,, despite the train of 10,, 20,, 30,, or more vehicles behind them. And when a rare place to pass comes along, they gun it,, so nobody can pass.

I could write a book on the total disrespect people have when visiting other places. I live it daily. Our problems start in April,, and go through November.

I wish I could find a place to buy a license.