Thanks for the advice, just a note back on this part of your response. I have NEVER!!! been ugly to a tourist in our town or state for that matter!!!!!!!!! until they cast the first stone. I don't take it to hart when they drive 25MPH on a hwy that's posted for 60MPH, I do it also and I have lived here for 4 years now and see things that awe me all the time.
The part that Chaps my XXX is when they come in and talk about US like we are a third world country, if that's the case WHY ARE THEY HERE? the destruction of the campgrounds in our area, is it that bad that the Forest Service charges a $10.00 per night fee to camp? or is it that they have to constantly pick up trash that is just tossed out carelessly? Our town needs tourists with a population of around 2000k year round residents that swells to 5 & 6K during the vacation months that's income that the stores in town desperately need. Do I need them? the answer to that is a resounding NO I DONT. Use to be that family members relied on some of the hunters, fishermen and people that want to PLAY COWBOY for a day and take a ride on a pony. Having services in town 10 miles away is nice at times, personally we feel Missoula 70 miles away is to close.
So Ya!! yer right when we sit outside the café having a cup of coffee looking at the world go by in our slow pace lives, and see some Ya Who come into town wearing shorts and shirts so brightly colored that it scares livestock and we have a chuckle at their expense unknown to them because we don't point when we laugh and nothing is said to them. Its kind of a pay back for the times that I wear a Brim in calif and people ACTUALLY SAY XXXX to me about it.
Which brings me to the point you made about, the ones moving here from Calif. Two of them are family members that came to go to school when I lived in Ca. They didn't have the opportunities in Seeley that we did in calif. They paid for their schools the two mentioned found jobs in calif and raised families there for 20 years, they were criticized by the way for being Native Americans most every day while living there also. So when one retired from Disney land the other from Magic Mountain and wanted to GET OUT OF CA is that wrong to want to come home to Seeley? The others are a close friend that has passed away that found peace in MT and I think found it where we live. The other is a Boss & his wife that gave a one legged ex drug addict a break and gave him a good job, and found out that as big an XXX hole as I am, im still kind of a decent enough guy that they wanted to get out of Ca when they retired, that they could stand to be around me. Another is a Pilot that flew MY airplane if Vietnam and was the Commander of our Toilet on earth for 19 months. He save MY XXX many times with what he did in MY airplane. He and his wife have decided that Alexandria Va is not the place for them and found something in this part of the third world that is of interest to them.
So if people find that we or I might be ugly to tourists they might want to re-think it the next time I go to some other state for a visit and they are FAR WORSE to me than I am to our tourists.
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I feel you,brother! I was being sarcastic about the tourists- they are annoying most anywhere I come across them. I can only imagine the disruptions in your neck of the woods. The
Californios I refer to are the ones who leave Cali- and then try to transform their new state into.... California. Have a great road trip,and watch out for the potholes.Our highways are in
bad shape these days.