I can't believe the numbers of crowds and cars. It's like it happened over night, not like the usual yeah there is a few more around each year. It's more like all of a sudden. For instance, a 20 min. commute now takes an hour and roads are overwhelmed with traffic.

Is it like that at your place?

Mines.  I was planning on UDub but went to Mines.  I've worked a lot in Wyo though for my day job (oil & gas), and love it there.  

Laramie is a nice little town although it has grown quite a bit over the years as well. My moms got a nice little cabin off of 230 a few miles north of the Colorado border. It sits up against National Forest land so they'll never have to worry about anybody else moving in on them. Summers are beautiful up there but winters can get long and nasty being they are right around 10k feet. It can be sunny and 30 in Laramie and below zero and a white out at the cabin. The first several years they owned it they had to snowmobile in the last 1/4 mile but now my step dads got an old 60 horse tractor with a snow blower so they can now drive all the way in. Its like their own slice of heaven up there.

My cousin also went to Wyo Tech to get ASE certified. Bill, when you went do you remember a concrete batch plant that sat across the highway and up the road a little ways from the school? My step dad managed Western Mobile for many years before moving on to Mountain Cement. What a small world we live in.

A traffic jam here in Kanab, UT is more than 2 vehicles & a quad at the stoplight..... Love it.

 

Ed

Where I live its common to stop in the the middle of the street and talk to a passing friend or neighbor. If you break down out here and your local you typically get a ride to the next house on the highway which might be a long ways 20 or more miles.

Bill is right about western MT. Missoula is up there at about 60k people now I think and Kalispell is not far behind anymore. Lots of people and lots of cars. That being said, there are a lot of places in western MT that are still pretty quiet. I get to see almost all of western MT on my sales route. Eureka, Libby, Noxon, Troy, St. Ignatius, these are all still real quiet and easy going. Much like where Mike lives actually.

 

Even with how busy Missoula is, it beats the living heck out of living in Yakima, WA. Hex0rz can account for that as well I think

Here shortly JAG1 can validate what I've been saying...

That being said, there are a lot of places in western MT that are still pretty quiet. I get to see almost all of western MT on my sales route. Eureka, Libby, Noxon, Troy, St. Ignatius, these are all still real quiet and easy going.

 

 

thanks for the heads up. 

Here shortly JAG1 can validate what I've been saying...

Yes I can validate this.... folks are still human. I loved staying there for a week is like the rest of the world disappeared.

BTW, Just in the time this thread got started the traffic has increased about 30 percent around here along with the suicidal driving. I find it hard to believe too.

Thanks JAG1...

 

Now everyone eat your heart out...

Thanks JAG1...

 

Now everyone eat your heart out...

Still hoping you call a formal meeting of the board at the campfire someday with members too. Could happen at that nice rv park almost next door.

Pretty quiet where I live yet too.

Typical Saturday afternoon around here (wife and kids in the picture) Our place just visible at the back edge of the field.

Its been a super late spring around here, trees are just now starting to bud. At the rate were going planting season is going to be pushed back quite a bit, we had a good snow Thursday night and still getting some heavy frosts. Been an unusually long winter for sure.

Thanks JAG1...

 

Now everyone eat your heart out...

Idaho population 1.6 million, 83,570 sq. miles , North Dakota population 800K roughly not knowing what it is exactly with the last couple years oil boom influx but roughly half the population is in the eastern 1/3 of the state, I live in the western 1/3, 70,698 sq. miles,  who's quieter now Mike?  Time to rip that thing from your chest and start chewing!!!!

Time to rip that thing from your chest and start chewing!!!!

 

 

But the weather is nicer here...

and there's more rice rockets to stomp the pedal on around here....