You'd never know there was a financial crunch with the lines of cars on route 16, Conway NH

[graywarrior]

Mother of christ, I just came from the supermarket which is loaded with out of staters filling their carriages and route 16 is bumper to bumper from the Kanc to N Conway Village. That's about 7 miles. Traffic has been like this since 1:00 this afternoon. Unreal.

Oh, and gas is down to $3.25 per gallon here....HERE in the north country.

[trof]

1. Leef Peepers?

[bicentennial_baby]

2. Peepers up for the holiday weekend, eh?

I could barely get a hotel room in W MA a couple weeks back. Damn peepers. x(

[graywarrior]

5. It's the busiest weekend ever up here.

[teamster633]

3. As beautiful as I'm sure it is up there right now,

it's the last place I'd want to be on Columbus Day weekend. Good luck.

[SpiralHawk]

4. In Days of Yore, I lived in North Conway and in Bartlett

That was back in the '60s and 70s -- before the Attack of the Outlet Malls.

Oh, was it ever sweet back then - forest, field, and mountain.

But then...the greed, the outlets, the hordes, and the MONUMENTAL, UNENDING TRAFFIC TIE UPS.

PTOOEY.

Echo Lake:

[graywarrior]

6. You wouldn't believe the north south road.

And Home Depot and Lowe's and parking lot lights that makes rt 16 look like a stadium.

[brer cat]

7. Heavy traffic in North GA mountains.

Always a peak time for us, but also we have found in down economic times, many people from Atlanta and other metro areas who would normally travel much farther, settle for a trip to close-by mountains.

Gas here dropped just this week from close to $4 to $3.25.

[graywarrior]

8. Yeah, most of the cars are from MA, CT, and RI

[asjr]

10. That area is beautiful. My sister

and I try to go yearly to Hiwassee.

[arcadian]

9. Carriages? Don't you mean "carts"?

And what were they putting in the "carts", was it "soda"? ;-)