Staying away from Sandpoint

I have decided I am not going to
Sandpoint anymore, until summer
is over.I have always know that Sandpoint
is horrible in the summer and during
sking season. That is if we get snow.

But I tried to get thru Sandpoint from
the beach area, going up First street
and then Cedar and out of dodge. And
by the time I was rounding on to east on
5th.... I was really wanting to get out of
dodge bad. As my road rage was starting
rear its ugly head.

Sandpoint traffic is bad enough in its self.
But I came across 4... count them 4 trucks
unloading supplies. I came out of the beach
area, and turn in the right lane. I always keep
to the right so I can turn at 5th and Cedar.
But I had no sooner got into the right lane
and there 2 blocks down is a UPS truck.
I check the lanes, as I last minute dodged
around the UPS truck, only to find myself
behind a semi with trailer back into the
sidewalk. Crossing almost 2 lanes.. Is this
legal? So now I have to stop and wait for
some one kind enough to let me thru.
Finally, I get around that one and I am
in the middle because I see a FEDEX truck
ahead at Coldwater Creek area. I get
around the corner and there in the 200
block of Cedar is another truck blocking...
By now I am heating up, and stopped as
the traffic is coming around the bend like
a race track. Who open the gates, Nellie?
Hindsight being always better, I should have
just quit right there, and head down Second
Avenue and take the back roads behind Safeway.

Finally some one felt sorry for me, and let
me thru. I am trying my best to keep myself
in the 25 mph limit, but as I am coming
towards the Larch Street light, I am beginning
to feel like a race horse myself, looking out
the starter gate. Sure enough as I go by the
Shell station I am hitting 35, and 45 by the
time I hit the underpass of the railroad, and
around the corner, thru the green light, and
I am FREE ... FREE AT LAST!!.... around
the corner by the Elks golf course... free.....
and then... a car... doing 30 in a 45!!!. What
the heck are they thinking???? They pull
into the Hoot Owl, ever so slowly....and I am
putting the pedal to metal, I am only 4 minutes
to home and out of this madness.

Yep, it is time to stay the heck out of Sandpoint.
Keep it to the Boyer Street and the back streets.