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MontanaMama

(24,236 posts) Fri Jul 3, 2020, 05:24 PM Jul 2020

Montana is inundated with out of state visitors right now. [View all]

I drive 20 miles round trip every day on the interstate to take my teenage son to baseball practice. The highway is loaded with out of staters every single day. Today my husband drove the kiddo up to Kalispell for a ball tournament and they report that they didn’t see but a handful of MT plates in that two hour drive. There were endless SUVs pulling RVs and giant motor homes from GA, FL, CA and WA...all over. Last weekend, we drove 4 hours over to Lewistown and saw the same thing on our highways...tons of vehicles from other places. We take our camper and all our own food...we don’t eat out....no motels. I’m frustrated. We had really low Covid numbers for so long. We were doing okay. Seems the word is out and folks are coming to MT in droves. The virus will come with them.

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Montana is inundated with out of state visitors right now. [View all] MontanaMama Jul 2020 OP

😕We just cancelled our trip to Glacier NP. we can do it Jul 2020 #1

Please come when it is safe. MontanaMama Jul 2020 #4

Definitely! we can do it Jul 2020 #6

Sorry MontMa blm Jul 2020 #2

Ugh. I hope not! soothsayer Jul 2020 #3

Try living in Florida. Out of state tags everywhere. jimfields33 Jul 2020 #5

No thank you. MontanaMama Jul 2020 #7

Sorry to hear that. I hope it's just 4th of July vacationers for Montana jimfields33 Jul 2020 #9

Same here in Rehoboth Beach DE we can do it Jul 2020 #39

Now you know how the Incas and Mayans felt ... VMA131Marine Jul 2020 #8

A ball tournament? OneBro Jul 2020 #10

Local teams only. MontanaMama Jul 2020 #11

I noticed the traffic on the Oregon coast is extremely high. Most cars I've seen since last summer. CanonRay Jul 2020 #12

Damn. MontanaMama Jul 2020 #14

No cases there that I've heard of CanonRay Jul 2020 #24

Us folks from Florida Chainfire Jul 2020 #13

You can keep that FL Covid down there MontanaMama Jul 2020 #15

Perhaps they are the same ones coming across the border into Canada Bev54 Jul 2020 #16

Good! They should keep Americans out. MontanaMama Jul 2020 #17

They are allowing them to travel through to Alaska but we Bev54 Jul 2020 #18

That's how we feel in MT. MontanaMama Jul 2020 #19

I saw TX, CO, GA, FL and a shitton from CA in Albertsons parking lot GemDigger Jul 2020 #20

Wow. Really? MontanaMama Jul 2020 #22

I Don't go out much. Delmette2.0 Jul 2020 #35

We have relatives in Montana and we were supposed to take a trip this month to Great Falls Nay Jul 2020 #21

I'm sorry. MontanaMama Jul 2020 #23

Thank you -- it was going to be a nice car trip, nipping up into Canada for the drive across Nay Jul 2020 #37

We all heard there was no mask-wearing tyranny there. Buckeye_Democrat Jul 2020 #25

You're a funny one... MontanaMama Jul 2020 #27

Back at ya! Buckeye_Democrat Jul 2020 #29

Exactly. 2naSalit Jul 2020 #28

Damn straight... 2naSalit Jul 2020 #26

So my kiddo's first game in Kalispell just ended. MontanaMama Jul 2020 #30

Which is why I have come to the 2naSalit Jul 2020 #31

interstate highway. that explains it nt msongs Jul 2020 #32

This only points out the need for a national strategy luv2fly Jul 2020 #33

100% right. MontanaMama Jul 2020 #34

The ones who don't mask up are who scares me most. Buying gas or groceries you see it. Ford_Prefect Jul 2020 #36

My mother in law lives in Stevi... MontanaMama Jul 2020 #38