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Flip flops irritate you?

Lighten up, Francis.


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Posts: 2026 | Location: AZ | Registered: May 14, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Shouldn't wear cowboy boots at the beach, nor flip flops in Cowboy Country... Taint proper....


What about filp-flops, shorts, and a cowboy hat while listening to Garth Brookes sing Pink Floyd songs? Big Grin







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Posts: 14020 | Location: It was Lat: 33.xxxx Lon: 44.xxxx now it's CA :( | Registered: March 22, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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i wish I could say I enjoyed driving through Montana. Went to Yellowstone on a cross country drive. Left the hotel early in the morning. Saw no hotels before nightfall, got stuck driving through some winding mountain roads that had no lights. Hardly any traffic and no trucks. The other cars that were there were driving too fast for me to tag along. Then came the rain, fog, sleet, and snow. We really were scared for our lives. Finally, one truck came by that we were able to follow in the dark. When they stopped at a gas station, we followed and thanked the two people in it.



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Posts: 19588 | Location: The Free State of Arizona - Ditat Deus | Registered: March 24, 2011Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Shouldn't wear cowboy boots at the beach, nor flip flops in Cowboy Country... Taint proper....


What about filp-flops, shorts, and a cowboy hat while listening to Garth Brookes sing Pink Floyd songs? Big Grin


Depends, what song is he singing....



 
Posts: 23244 | Location: Florida | Registered: November 07, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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We are currently tourist in Jackson Wy, my wife just loves this place even mentioned retire out this way. Once I showed her how high the snow would be in winter she reconsidered. I do love the western spirit folks have out in this part of the country. I heard a local address a large group of tourist asking them all where they came from, one group said california without missing a beat he said "Welcome to America" the whole crowd burst into laughter.


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Posts: 7629 | Location: Georgia  | Registered: May 16, 2002Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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I do all my best solving in flip flops.


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Posts: 2243 | Location: AZ | Registered: January 30, 2003Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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I live in the Zion N.P. area, talk about tourists!! Locals carry cigarette lighters to burn the toilet paper left behind every tree and rock. Then there's the graffiti. One thing we don't have this year are hundreds of tour buses, we were overrun before Covid. I heard Yellowstone was the same.

Go to a restaurant outside Zion and all you see are CA, AZ and NV license plates.


I’ve lived in UT since 1988, never been to Zion, Bryce, or Arches. When asked why, I say it’s because I’d just go to California if I want to be with those crowds. Besides, if I’m going down there, I’m heading straight to Powell. Smile

As for MT, back when I was still trucking, I never had a bad day when I was trucking in MT. Sure, I had hard days, but no bad days. Western MT is beautiful.



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Posts: 8202 | Location: Utah | Registered: December 18, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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………and we continue to fill up with tourists. Some music festival is 10 miles away and is to attract 10,000 people. Our roads aren’t made for that. We’ve seem at least 8 traffic deaths in the last few weeks, including 2 today. Too much speed & booze.

Tonight, we drove highway 35 home after watching a play in Polson at about 10:30. We make this drive a number of times in a summer. Usually we see 10 cars going south on the east side of the lake. Tonight I would guess we saw 300 headed south while we headed north. This is a narrow 2 lane with lots of curves and minimal passing areas. The speed limit is 50. A couple of cars passed us going at least 80 in double yellow zones. About 10% of oncoming drivers wouldn’t dim their lights. Insanity.

Com’on fall.



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Posts: 4216 | Location: Saddlebrooke, Arizona | Registered: December 24, 2013Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Yep, I was part of the problem over the 4th of July in the Flathead.
Third trip of the year to the valley, and one day I hope not to leave.

mcrimm
Fall is the best time of the year to be in the Flathead. When the leaves start to change color, best post card around. With a little dusting on top of the Bob.

Hope to be back the end of the month.
 
Posts: 1153 | Location: western, Washington | Registered: November 04, 2007Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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i wish I could say I enjoyed driving through Montana. Went to Yellowstone on a cross country drive. Left the hotel early in the morning. Saw no hotels before nightfall, got stuck driving through some winding mountain roads that had no lights. Hardly any traffic and no trucks. The other cars that were there were driving too fast for me to tag along. Then came the rain, fog, sleet, and snow. We really were scared for our lives. Finally, one truck came by that we were able to follow in the dark. When they stopped at a gas station, we followed and thanked the two people in it.


You sound like the kind of tourist the OP is talking about. Isn't Montana's fault you didn't plan your trip. To include distance between motels and the year round possibility of inclement weather.
 
Posts: 563 | Location: Wyoming | Registered: February 26, 2012Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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We are currently tourist in Jackson Wy, my wife just loves this place even mentioned retire out this way. Once I showed her how high the snow would be in winter she reconsidered. I do love the western spirit folks have out in this part of the country. I heard a local address a large group of tourist asking them all where they came from, one group said california without missing a beat he said "Welcome to America" the whole crowd burst into laughter.


You know that those of us in the rest of the state don't consider Jackson a part of Wyoming, don't you?
 
Posts: 563 | Location: Wyoming | Registered: February 26, 2012Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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I thought the flip flop thing was funny . I get it . Here we get annoyed at the people that say they are planning to visit New Orleans and want to know the best place to eat real Cajun food . Roll Eyes
 
Posts: 3971 | Location: Down in Louisiana . | Registered: February 27, 2009Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Flip flops irritate you?

Lighten up, Francis.


No, its people trying to look like men who wear them. Do you own flip flops? Have you ever been seen in public wearing them? Those should be the first two questions on the man card application.


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Posts: 18385 | Location: Kentucky, USA | Registered: February 25, 2001Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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i wish I could say I enjoyed driving through Montana. Went to Yellowstone on a cross country drive. Left the hotel early in the morning. Saw no hotels before nightfall, got stuck driving through some winding mountain roads that had no lights. Hardly any traffic and no trucks. The other cars that were there were driving too fast for me to tag along. Then came the rain, fog, sleet, and snow. We really were scared for our lives. Finally, one truck came by that we were able to follow in the dark. When they stopped at a gas station, we followed and thanked the two people in it.


You sound like the kind of tourist the OP is talking about. Isn't Montana's fault you didn't plan your trip. To include distance between motels and the year round possibility of inclement weather.


I didn't get to do any of the things the OP was talking about since I drove through Montana in the dark. That was my first cross country drive and, no, we didn't plan stops. That was the intent of our trip. Do you always start out perfect the first time you do something?

The second cross-country trip, we did decide no driving in the dark or in the SUV at gas stations like we did the first time. I used Waze to plan fill ups at Loves and I used the Best Western app to confirm reservations before we got there.



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Posts: 19588 | Location: The Free State of Arizona - Ditat Deus | Registered: March 24, 2011Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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You can pry my flip flops my cold, dead uhhhhhh feet



 
Posts: 5302 | Location: GA | Registered: September 23, 2009Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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The "west" is NOT the West! Hasn't been since the 1870's. Read "Tough Trip Through Paradise" by A. Garcia, it may give you a little perspective.


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Posts: 624 | Location: Idaho, west of Beaver Dicks Ferry | Registered: August 22, 2012Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Welcome to our beautiful state.

First, spend money, then go home.


Been on the south end now since the early 50's and if'n you get this far down spanish is your friend Smile


Regards, Will G.
 
Posts: 9660 | Location: 140 mi to Margaritaville, FL | Registered: January 02, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Shouldn't wear cowboy boots at the beach, nor flip flops in Cowboy Country... Taint proper....


^^^^
Big Grin. True.


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Some music festival is 10 miles away and is to attract 10,000 people.


Watch out for growing drum circles...


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Posts: 10861 | Location: 45 miles from the Pacific Ocean | Registered: February 28, 2003Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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………and we continue to fill up with tourists. Some music festival is 10 miles away and is to attract 10,000 people. Our roads aren’t made for that. We’ve seem at least 8 traffic deaths in the last few weeks, including 2 today. Too much speed & booze.

Tonight, we drove highway 35 home after watching a play in Polson at about 10:30. We make this drive a number of times in a summer. Usually we see 10 cars going south on the east side of the lake. Tonight I would guess we saw 300 headed south while we headed north. This is a narrow 2 lane with lots of curves and minimal passing areas. The speed limit is 50. A couple of cars passed us going at least 80 in double yellow zones. About 10% of oncoming drivers wouldn’t dim their lights. Insanity.

Com’on fall.


That music festival in Whitefish actually attracted over 20,000 people! The LEO's in Whitefish had their hands full all weekend with drunks and fights.
 
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