Interesting Memorial weekend

[NYlakesider]

Up here at the lake this last weekend is the normal start of camping season. People come up unlock and open their camps, clean up down trees and enjoy the weekend.

For some reason I found this weekend to be rather quite, other than a few groups of crotch rockets bikes flying by at warp factor 4 and the boats with illegal open exhaust at full throttle.

We always have lots of illegal fireworks going off most any good weather weekend and much more on the 3 holidays! Also usually some back yard target shooting. Heard 1 shooter Sunday morning, sounds like he fired off about 30 rounds!

Not the usual amount of both boat traffic and cars and trucks.

I wonder if this means anything but the weather was not a factor and just driving around I saw many camps still not opened up. Of course gas prices are up and if on the water you will pay about another $1.25 a gallon for gas.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

Driving the Pa. Turnpike home yesterday, I'd say traffic was about 2/3 or less than normal. Cabela's Wheeling wasn't as busy either.

Maybe people got together with other people now that Covid is officially over?

Ivan

 

[quikdraw67]

My part of Penn's Woods seemed plenty busy. But to be fair, I didn't go too far.

 

[twodog max]

The Ozark mountains filled up starting last Wednesday. I stay away on idiot weekends. They are all home, in jail or the hospital now so it is quiet again.

 

[GypsmJim]

We were at our camp as well. EXTREMELY quiet. Except when I brought out the 39-2, pre 27 and 25-5.

The weather amounted to the best Memorial Day in memory. The whole family and friends showed up.

Our other local campers were there too. I cut the grass and picked up sticks the week before, so the entire weekend was delegated to relaxing.

The only "work" was cleaning out and hauling away my son's 1961 camper. Still quite usable, but the roof needs more leak repair. He gave it to a friend for free. His brand new 2023 model will be arriving for the fourth.

 

[Golddollar]

US 15 going north on Friday was brutal. For no apparent reason traffic was crawling in Camp Hill and then when 15 closed down from 4 lanes to 2 lanes around Shamokin Dam it just came to a standstill.

 

[pawngal]

I'm in a lake resort area, didn't venture out much over the weekend but what I did see was mixed. The usual suspect Bars/restaurants with live music were packed. Amusement park was very busy. On the other side, the small city campground near my house was only 1/2 full, years past it would be full by Thursday PM. And the jail didn't fill up.
The weather was perfect.

 

[charlie sherrill]

I live at my resort year round. I have a little 23 acre farm, grow lots of good stuff, hunt deer and other game in my back yard, and have numerous productive fishing holes nearby. Nobody stopped by yesterday and I enjoyed some very good BBQ and a dip in the pool after picking some blueberries. Life is good. I pray it stays that way for a long time.

 

[zeke]

Am living in lakes area vacation land for southern Wi, Minneapolis/Minn and Chicago. Busiest have seen it in years, and the most reckless/non law abiding vacationers in decades. Some smart Minn boys thought it would be fun to harass my dog while it was on a tie line out back. They left abruptly.

Closest i can figure they all got irritated with the record number of mosquitos/ticks. The only fun i got was going to supermarket and scaring civilized people without doing/saying anything.

 

[zeke]

US 15 going north on Friday was brutal. For no apparent reason traffic was crawling in Camp Hill and then when 15 closed down from 4 lanes to 2 lanes around Shamokin Dam it just came to a standstill.

Last couple times home it was an experience trying to drive through or around Camp Hill. Simply no where else to expand the roads to. Without risking life and limb on the highways, it is a slow experience.

Along time ago used one of the gap roads to skip the area during one of the big floods, but last time i looked the mountains were rapidly developing.

 

[lihpster]

I didn't even try to go anywhere. The fires we had a couple years ago have led to the closing, for now, of large parts of the National Forest. Just funnels them into the other areas making them little outposts of the city, rather than pleasant outdoor spaces to enjoy instead of the city.

 

[Golddollar]

Yesterday our town had its Memorial Day parade. I was one of the drivers, and I got to drive a HUGE black Chevy Suburban. It made my Grand Marquis look like a Yugo.

 

[BC38]

We went to our cabin 45 minutes north of town for the first time since January.
Spent half a day Saturday picking up pine cones and branches that fell over the winter.
Spent another half a day Sunday mowing, weeding, and weed-whacking the 18" tall grass (!)
Had a very relaxing Memorial Day - mainly because we chose NOT to put our boat in the water and instead just kick back on the deck for the day.
We're going back in a couple of weeks and we'll launch the boat then, when the holiday idiots aren't anywhere around.

 

[rwsmith]

Well, except for my son......

...getting creamed from the rear and ending up in a ditch, all was quiet.

Something really eerie happened. though. My wife and I went out for a bite in town, just mile up the road. There was virtually NO traffic on the road. Going down main street that now is ALWAYS very congested we were by ourselves. We just glided along no interference. It really got weird on the way back when we usually have to wait to turn left when the sign blinks yellow from all the cars. We waited through a light, and the nearest car was still a half mile down the road. We thought we were in the Twilight Zone and had gone back to 1960. I guess everybody burned it out over the holiday.

 

[NYlakesider]

Am living in lakes area vacation land for southern Wi, Minneapolis/Minn and Chicago. Busiest have seen it in years, and the most reckless/non law abiding vacationers in decades. Some smart Minn boys thought it would be fun to harass my dog while it was on a tie line out back. They left abruptly.

Closest i can figure they all got irritated with the record number of mosquitos/ticks. The only fun i got was going to supermarket and scaring civilized people without doing/saying anything.

Now that you mentioned it, seem like a lot more of the little pests around this year. That includes the famous Adirondack black fly!

For whatever reason we have had a increase in the amount of slobs littering and making a mess and then disappearing. Most of the free public spots like launches and picnic areas are well posted "No trash cans here, you brought it in take it out with you!''

One big free public beach has had problems like this before, would not be surprised in they padlock the place as they have threatened to do.

Been quite dry up here and the grass fire hazard is big this year, we had a few big ones up here but fortunately the volunteer companies won the battles.

Hopefully these problems are resolved before the big 4th extended weekend occurs.-

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

My daughter lives in New Jersey's Pine Barrens. Her tick population is off the charts this year.

Ivan

 

[Bald1]

Well…….. we are in a recession. Maybe the disposable income dried up. Good times can be expensive.

 

[Bald1]

My daughter lives in New Jersey's Pine Barrens. Her tick population is off the charts this year.

Ivan

What's the wild life situation in the Barrens? Any deer? Anything I've seen about the area on tv looks like it wouldn't support a lot of animals. Maybe a Jersey Devil or two.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

My daughter lives in the NW corner and the deer are abundant! Wheen going down the turnpike to Atlantic City, you will see many little paths into the woods, most of these have a small mound in them. I was told by the locals that those are the buried remains of snitches from NYC! They seemed to have fertilized that area very well!

Ivan

 

[Bald1]

Lol, yes it was a favorite dumping ground for the Sopranos.