Your 5 Maine things (Portland, Hope: airplane, to move, transportation)

[Three Wolves In Snow]

Originally Posted by Zymer

'Bush-hogging'?

I was just going to come and edit my post above because I saw another sign today with that word...yes, bush hogging.

[brfire]

% thing I am on going to do on vacation in Maine this summer:

1. Visit Fort Knox ( I am a huge history buff and that place fascinates me).
2. Get a Lobsta roll for the Keag store in South Thomaston.
3. Climb Mount Battie with my children.
4. Drive up and down the coast,stopping and seeing whatever interests us.
5. Relax, recharge my internal battery, and dream of living in Maine.

[bananamana]

This is fantastic and getting me excited! I'm moving to Orono for grad school. My dad was stationed in Brunswick in the 70s and 80s and has a lot of friends and family-like friends in the area. I've been to Brunswick, Acadia, and done site-seeing in Portland before with my family. With that being said, I look forward to doing it again (especially now that I'm an adult). Any advice on hiking? What do the eastern and northern parts of the state hold?

[maine4.us]

1) watch a sunrise over Campobello Island
2) take a boat ride to the Wolves
3) visit Mt. Katahdin
4) drive to the top of Cadillac mountain and enjoy the view
5) spend a day on a lobster boat collecting traps

I could go on, and these are in downeast Maine.

[Zymer]

Originally Posted by brfire

% thing I am on going to do on vacation in Maine this summer:

1. Visit Fort Knox ( I am a huge history buff and that place fascinates me).
2. Get a Lobsta roll for the Keag store in South Thomaston.
3. Climb Mount Battie with my children.
4. Drive up and down the coast,stopping and seeing whatever interests us.
5. Relax, recharge my internal battery, and dream of living in Maine.

If you're going to Ft. Knox and you like lobster rolls, try the little place on Verona Island...if it's still there and under the same management it was a few years ago. My wife said they were wicked good. I wouldn't know good lobster from bad, all seafood is putrid as far as I'm concerned.

[ElGreco]

Why we like Maine? 1. Nature 2. People I am from one of the EU countries (not English speaking) but in Maine I am like at home. People don't care about accent but they care if you are a human or something else...

[portlandano]

The best of Maine is during the coldest day of the year, pretending that I am not in the USA at all, but in Belgium. Hopefully they will open the ferry to Nova Scotia, so I can escape from backwards USA to Halifax on a vacation. Someone once told me that the best part of being in Maine was the airplane flight to Australia! I consider immigrating to Portland Oregon. They have lightrail there, good transportation!

[retiredtinbender]

Originally Posted by portlandano

The best of Maine is during the coldest day of the year, pretending that I am not in the USA at all, but in Belgium. Hopefully they will open the ferry to Nova Scotia, so I can escape from backwards USA to Halifax on a vacation. Someone once told me that the best part of being in Maine was the airplane flight to Australia! I consider immigrating to Portland Oregon. They have lightrail there, good transportation!

Your posts all seem to run the same theme: you're don't seem to be happy here and it's due to lack of public transportation. Small cities do lack pub trans but for a reason; use (or the lack thereof). I find myself wondering why you have stayed for in Portland for 7 years . Are you trapped there? There are many cities all over the USA that have great tranportation, like Boston and suburbs, Atlanta, DC, ad infinitum. With that in mind, why did you pick Portland with Boston's T just down the road a piece?

[brightdoglover]

Go to Reid State Park, about ten miles north of Brunswick off Rt.1, that is, ten miles to the turn off and then maybe ten more to the end of the finger. The most perfect combination of waves crashing on rocks and beach. One of my favorite places in the whole world.

[slyfox2]

Originally Posted by Zymer

If you're going to Ft. Knox and you like lobster rolls, try the little place on Verona Island...if it's still there and under the same management it was a few years ago. My wife said they were wicked good.

Under new management some time in the past year. For awhile it was empty, and I was worried. Every time we have to head south to visit the unfortunate relatives who couldn't move to Maine, we stop there for lunch.

Wonderful little diner.