It's also possible that I now have new definitions for traffic.
If I drive to the village from my house and see six cars, that's a lot of traffic!
But, yeah, it can slow to a crawl in the summer. Those first few big weekends turn into a few big weeks and Rangeley-area goes from 1000 people to 10,000 people.
It's insane to see from my perspective. You'll go from just getting gas to spending 20 minutes getting gas and picking something up inside the store. Hell, it'll be about 10 minutes to pay at the pump as you wait for others to finish their business.
I could go sit on my front porch and I would see 6 cars going by in less than 30 seconds. But yeah, I could see how that would get annoying. I remember when I lives in the house on the water with the beach in my back yard, in the summer time on Friday nights the highway was filled with cars going north and if you needed to get across the street it would sometimes take ten minutes just to cross. Then Sunday evenings were the worst with all those same cars headed back south. It was like a constant parade. One time I was trying to get on the highway for 20 minutes with no break in traffic and eventually said fuck it and went back home instead. Any other day the traffic there was sparse
Maybe you need to learn how to make your own "Michigan Left". (I'd describe it in detail, but you have Google. Basically, to take a left into traffic you start by taking a right into traffic.) It's a handy tool for dealing with traffic, similar to how you pretty much never see a UPS truck taking a left into traffic.
Tourist traffic is annoying, but the village needs that influx of cash to survive.
Oh I did do that a couple times just to get moving cause I was sick of waiting.
I pretty much just made sure I was stocked up on everything that I might need on Friday and Sunday and just stayed home those days in the summer.
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