Oh my! That’s a bit more than a summer cottage. Looks great to me Teddy.

I don’t know what some of the other interests are, but a nice day trip from there may be up to the Bangor area to a small town called Old Town. That’s right. Home of the Old Town Canoe Factory. It’s a bit of a step back in technology, but you can see the whole place and watch hand made canoes from one of the oldest and best builders. (They didn’t have tours everyday. Check their schedule)

If another outlet store turns you on, Bar Harbor is the place for you. Lots of T shirt shops there. You can’t eat too much lobster when you are in Maine. It's EVERYWHERE! From roadside cooking pots with picnic tables, to three star restaurants with all the amenities, if you enjoy it even a little, you’re going to heaven. Bar Harbor is a jumping tourist town that the walkmen-teens will have a ball. I’m sure they are hyping all kinds of events like everyplace else. Maybe contact their chamber of commerce and find the groups and schedules of Summer happenings. My trips were always in September and October.

You’ll be right in the Acadia National Park area that has some gorgeous scenery and very interesting geological conditions if that’s your bag at all. The whole tidal zone thing was different and interesting to me, so I had no problem finding things to keep my attention.

I personally found Booth Bay to be the most picturesque and interesting for me. I’ll bore you with the day I spent on a lobster boat with a private fisherman, checking his “sampling trap location” another time. You’ll only laugh as hard as he did when I insisted on packing the rotten fish bait bags and busting my ass hooking and pulling in some traps.

The REAL north Maine for me is up towards Caribou and takes you within reach of some of the nicest people in the world, just across the boarder in “that other country”. (As long as you don’t go west and cross the St. Lawrence River )

Can you tell I liked Maine?

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