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JimsTexas

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I am going to Maine this year do y'all have any recommendation of thing that is a must see. The wife and I will not be going to Alaska this year and this is our first trip into the North East. If it works out we will come back head west along the Canadian Border and come back down the west coast on highway 1 to California and from California we will head east home. If anyone lives in the area it would be great to meet at a good restaurants. I will travel I-95 some. I usually like to travel the back roads. My friends y'all have a great day

 
I went fly fishing up there.

They have a somewhat unique landlocked Atlantic salmon.

I was fishing in the Moosehead Lake area mostly

If you like this idea, hire a guide for the first day or two - its worth it.

Very pretty area.

other than that, I dont know what else to do there besides eat lobster.

edit - here is a pic of the Maine landlocked Atlantic salmon - beautiful fish

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you're gonna drive from texas to maine, head west along the canadian border to the pacific and then south thru cali and home again?

i love my wife and she's my best friend, but if we tried that one of us is coming home in a body bag.

 
If you have the time, simply make the drive from Maine to Providence. The scenery is awesome and you will think you have stepped back in time. Also, stay in the B & B houses as often as you can.

 
Thanks guys for all the help. Deb and I are really looking forward to our trip. We will be gone for 4 are 5 months. I am not much of a fly fisherman but use lures. I would love to catch me some Atlantic salmon. It also looks like they have some scenic roads. Please continue to offer advice. My friends y'all have a great day

 
Go out to one of the islands off Portland. We ate at this restaurant on Great Diamond. Pretty cool and you have to take the ferry to get to it unless you have a boat. It was interesting to see what the people who live on them have to do to manage groceries, cars, etc. Beautiful scenery especially if you can catch the sunset.

http://diamondsedgerestaurantandmarina.com

 
This isnt really a site to visit but its something else I remembered.

One night on the patio of this guy's house that overlooked Penobscot Bay, this giant male Weimaraner and I sat together and watched a meteor shower.

The night sky is very big there.

I guess it was the right time of year or whatever, but I have never seen so many comets go by.

It was one after another. Pause. Then here came another stream.

I pointed them out to the dog.

He was just as amazed as I was.

You could see his eyes moves as they crossed the sky.

The both of us sat there looking skyward together.

Occasionally he would look at me, as if to say "Did you see that one?" - then his gaze went back to the sky.

That dog's name was Data.

And he would answer to dAta

but not data

if you can believe it

ps -- Rmbr the very end of 'The Hunt for Red October?' that was the Penobscot (i think)

 
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Thanks guys for all the help. Deb and I are really looking forward to our trip. We will be gone for 4 are 5 months. I am not much of a fly fisherman but use lures. I would love to catch me some Atlantic salmon. It also looks like they have some scenic roads. Please continue to offer advice. My friends y'all have a great day
The absolutely best time of the year to visit New England is during indian summer in October when the maple trees are turning. The colors are stunning.

Be advised that New England people are a wary and suspicious bunch and it will take some time for them to warm up to you - but when they do, they are some of the best people you will know.

They talk funny, too.

You may want to pahk your cah in Hahvahd yahd. (they find it almost impossible to pronounce their "R's".)

And they don't understand what "Fixing to go to the store." means.

Just so you know. :)

 
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Go out to one of the islands off Portland. We ate at this restaurant on Great Diamond. Pretty cool and you have to take the ferry to get to it unless you have a boat. It was interesting to see what the people who live on them have to do to manage groceries, cars, etc. Beautiful scenery especially if you can catch the sunset.http://diamondsedgerestaurantandmarina.com


Did this too. Agree.

I remember the house we were at, you could literally lean out the kitchen window and pick your own strawberries. Pop them right in your mouth.

But I also remember the husband telling me what winter was like for him.

He was an accountant is Portland.

He had two cars.

One on the island and one in Portland.

In the morning, he had to start the car, let it run, then knock the snow and ice off.

He drove it to the ferry landing. (his only ferry was no cars)

When he landed, he had to do the same thing over again with his second car, in order to drive to the office.

Can you imagine how old that would get?

But that island was beautiful.

The wife's grandma died and left it to the grandkids.

No one else in the family wanted to live there, but they didnt want to sell it either.

So, this couple decided to move in. Pretty magical place to raise kids.

But, geez, that poor guy's commute.

 
you're gonna drive from texas to maine, head west along the canadian border to the pacific and then south thru cali and home again?
i love my wife and she's my best friend, but if we tried that one of us is coming home in a body bag.
My wife and I have been married for 47 years and we do have a difference of opinion sometimes but it has it's way of working out I just let Deb have her way. My friends y'all have a great day.

 
Did this too. Agree.I remember the house we were at, you could literally lean out the kitchen window and pick your own strawberries. Pop them right in your mouth.

But I also remember the husband telling me what winter was like for him.

He was an accountant is Portland.

He had two cars.

One on the island and one in Portland.

In the morning, he had to start the car, let it run, then knock the snow and ice off.

He drove it to the ferry landing. (his only ferry was no cars)

When he landed, he had to do the same thing over again with his second car, in order to drive to the office.

Can you imagine how old that would get?

But that island was beautiful.

The wife's grandma died and left it to the grandkids.

No one else in the family wanted to live there, but they didnt want to sell it either.

So, this couple decided to move in. Pretty magical place to raise kids.

But, geez, that poor guy's commute.
Juan Grande no thanks I am a Texan don't think I would like all that snow and ice. My friends y'all have a great day and enjoy this great Texas weather.

 
If you have the time, simply make the drive from Maine to Providence. The scenery is awesome and you will think you have stepped back in time. Also, stay in the B & B houses as often as you can.
doc longhorn thanks I will make time but I will be pulling our 29 foot travel trailer so I don't think we will be staying at a B&B.doc longhorn are you talking about taking 95 to Maine are staying on a back road to Maine. My friends y'all have a great day.

 
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doc longhorn thanks I will make time but I will be pulling our 29 foot travel trailer so I don't think we will be staying at a B&B.doc longhorn are you talking about taking 95 to Maine are staying on a back road to Maine. My friends y'all have a great day.
Stay on the back roads as much as you can. This is what the natives do - the coastal roads are for the tourists. Besides, the backroads culture and scenery are 17th century and out of this world. You will also see some wealth that is beyond ...liquid. Plus, anyone that visits new England MUST go to Martha's Vineyard, Kinnebunkport and Chappaquiddik. (I mis-spelled on purpose - the filter won't let me spell it correctly)

 
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Stay on the back roads as much as you can. This is what the natives do - the coastal roads are for the tourists. Besides, the backroads culture and scenery are 17th century and out of this world. You will also see some wealth that is beyond ...liquid. Plus, anyone that visits new England MUST go to Martha's Vineyard and Chappaquid$#@!.
I very seldom travel the the interstate. My friends y'all have a great day

 
Definitely looking forward to seeing you and your wife again this summer, Jim. I think my wife and kids might join us this time as well.

 
We drove up and back from Austin and spent a week in Maine the year before last October. We rented a very nice cottage in the woods on Mount Desert Island. We got there around the tenth of October because we thought that would be the height of the color change season. The trees were good but not great. It turns out that the forests are so varied on the coast and the weather patterns, meaning cold weather, can vary over a few miles and over a few weeks in any direction. So, if you are going to be there for a while, That means that you can get varied landscape variety taking multiple day trips up and down the coast and inland and in effect the color may vary quite a bit over just a few days. Mt. Desert Island is beautiful, but I kind of preferred the drives up and down the coast. We got there the week end after the tourist season ended, and I will tell you that we were glad of that. There are wonderful trails on the Island, and up and down the coast, and it was nice to have them almost to ourselves. I am not so sure that we would have appreciated them so much if they were any more crowded. Bar Harbor is nice, but it is a cruise ship destination and can be quite crowded even after tourist season. The towns up and down the coast, especially to the south, do not share that misfortune so much and can be just as scenic. Whenever we go back we will stay off of the Island for sure.

As has been said, eat seafood, especially, lobster, lobster stew, and lobster rolls, at the lobster pot shacks along side the road. We had to develop a sense of humor as we tried some higher end restaurants for seafood other than lobster, and were roundly disappointed. It seems that they universally do not understand the concept of how to get a good caramelized sear on fish or scallops and the concept of the use of spices seemed to be universally lacking. And, believe me, we gave several supposedly better restaurants a try. Other than lobster in its' various forms, the best meal we had in Maine was in a Southeast Asian fusion restaurant in Bangor. As an aside, on the way back to Texas, we had great Burmese and Turkish food and Polish corned beef in Pittsburgh. We take road vacations with our two Catahoulas, and Pittsburgh will be our next extended vacation. What a beautiful city, and the tree color there and in West Virginia to the south was outstanding. Instead of driving back down I-95 back from Maine, we drove across southern Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and upstate New York on our way to Pittsburgh. We have been through the area many times as my wife is from New York City and I have lived there, but driving back through New England in the rain with the clouds periodically breaking over all of that fall color was, well ... to repeat myself, OUTSTANDING! ;)

 
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