It was easy to tell the holiday weekend
had arrived.
I had to make trip to my employer's
Massachusetts facility Friday morning to conduct an interview of a candidate to
fill one of our many open positions. I was done by 11AM and headed
back to our home office. As soon as I hit the north side of the
highway heading towards New Hampshire I knew my trip back was going
to take longer than usual.
The traffic was heavy. Very heavy. And
it wasn't even noon yet.
On more than one occasion on the trip
back north traffic came to a standstill. This is something you
usually see on the evening commute, not at noon. Once I crossed the
border the ratio of out-of-state license plates to New Hampshire
plates on northbound vehicles didn't change. Most of the out-of-state
vehicles had obvious signs of people heading to vacation spots –
lots of luggage in the back or on top, bike racks filled with
bicycles, canoes and kayaks on roof racks, and lots of camper
trailers.
It's the end-of-summer vacation
blowout.