If there's a tourist season, why can't we shoot them?

Guy, I sympathize with you. I used to visit Sedona in the summer when I was a kid. Back before they build that awful 6 laner up through the middle of town. It was kind of nice back then. Now its just too freakin' crowded all the time to even enjoy the hiking :( I steer clear of there.

I avoid tourist places during their tourist seasons. I have no fun when billions of people and cars are choking off my personal space and air.

What? You mean we can't shoot them? I even bought my hunting license!!!

I've just been having trouble finding the bag limits....

I can understand your frustration. My mother lives in Northern Arizona, Kingman actually. Several times this year I have driven from my home in San Diego, Ca to Kingman, Az and then on to Scottsdale,Az and back. (Medical trips)
It's beautiful country, thats for sure. I'm no slowpoke driver and did fine.....although I did run into a few crawlers on my many trips.
There was a lot of construction. The only thing I worried about was getting a ticket in those construction areas. I probably sped most of the way anyway....lol

Does the tourist thing slow down any in summer?
Az is too darn hot for summer trips if you are not used to it.
Hope you get a break from all the tourists....lol

Joy,

It rarely get's above 90 here in the summer. We're at 4,500 feet and it stays moderate.

Scottsdale/Phoenix is unbearable at 115F.

Sedona, still love the place, more people need to see it. Put it high on your list this summer.

Walker!!

As you no doubt remember, I was along on that ride when we had the meeting in Flagstaff. You weren't kidding about that California driver.

Ray, YES to Sedona!!! I will be back there next week for a good long time.

Walker, I love how you are able to take annoying situations and turn them into brilliantly funny pieces such as this one.

I too live in a tourist area. But in my case it is historic and not theme park or cheesy gift shops (those are about 20 miles away ) just battlefields and lakes so we get the history buffs and fisherman and sailing nuts its not so bad.

You have my sympathies ..... but

You thnk YOU'VE got it bad? Try Edinburgh during the Festival season (August) - the population almost QUADRUPLES... Most of us try to avoid the centre of the city, during that period, particularly the area around Princes Street and the Royal Mile.

Of course, that's exactly when my family and friends (my husband calls them opportunist-tourists!) decide to descend on us and want to attend the Edinburgh Tattoo, or be taken around the Castle or Botanical Gardens or whatever..

Tourists of every stripe are constantly getting lost and asking for directions, instructions etc - many confess that they find our accents difficult to comprehend (oh yes, nothing like insulting the natives, eh?!) Oh yes, blissful time of year!

And, until you have driven around Edinburgh's notoriously bad 'one way' system, you don't know what frustration driving REALLY is!

Now, this really IS a rant!

Here is where I live and why they flock here.

And here's mine.... (sorry, don't know how to do links)
http://www.firstcity.force9.co.uk/newgallery/index.htm

Well, at least we, in NYC, try and take care of motorists as well as pedestrians. We try not to schedule any road construction projects during business hours when we can do them at night. We tend to do bridge construction projects between the hours of 10PM and 5AM, and the same with major highways and freeways, etc.

We have an Office of Construction Mitigation and Coordination that talks with contractors and agencies that need to do road work and makes sure that the project has as little impact on the majority of drivers as possible. On major construction projects, and that includes buildings when they will have an impact on the streets in their vicinity, the contractor is obliged to issue what we call an MPT [Maintenance and Protection of Traffic] and the "Traffic" is both vehicular and pedestrian. this calls for safety measures to be put in place, and calls for pedestrian walkways and the like if the sidewalk is going to be closed.

Perhaps, as a tax-paying resident of Sedonia, you could ask your DPW, or whoever does the work, to give you an advance schedule of when they will be working, and suggest a public meeting to discuss the project and ask for some relief? Maybe the engineers just haven't taken the ordinary citizens' needs into consideration because ordinary citizens have never asked before? Just a thought.

BTW, I work for the New York City Department of Transportattion.

I love the title...try living in Florida...going to work in the morning I would always get behind a person with New York plates doing 35 in a 55...now you cant tell me they drive like that in New York.

Generally, New York drivers drive much better than most other drivers in the US, especially drivers from Mass, where they don't seem to know how to use turn signals, and just cut in and out of lanes and CT drivers, who don't know their a** from a hole in the ground! In New York State, most areas have a grace allowance of about 10 MPH over the speed limit, and I would imagine that the NY drivers in front of you in Fla must have been recent retirees, who are probably too old to keep up with the flow. What can I tell ya!?

I lived in Tampa for almost 5 years. I lived in Temple Terrace and worked downtown. During those 5 years I put less than 1,000 miles on my car -- I took the bus because it was cheaper and less aggravating!

Walker! That sounds like my life here in Guelph during construction season!!!

OH NO!!! You just told everyone the temperature is perfect in Sedona= more tourists
oops

You'll love it, I just posted a few Arizona photos. Of Scottsdale and near Kingman though.

I enjoy taking Oak Creek Canyon from Sedona to Flagstaff. Here in Colorado construction is still done that way. Most at night.

Because the great and magnificent tourists put tasty meals on your table.

South Florida is no better for tourists.