The Maine Diaries

Salem – More Than Witches

I was looking for witch-y lore and magic on my first trip to Salem MA on my first honeymoon in 1988. It was just OK and I probably wouldn’t have gone back. However, last year’s unplanned drive through […]

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2017 WAZE Maze to Maine

Joseph and I did pretty good packing this morning. We left around 9am and stopped at WAWA for some tea and sandwiches. We figured we wouldn’t stop for breakfast so we could get to Salem early enough to […]

Maine’17 – It’s Almost Time!

We leave for vacation on Thursday. However, my mind left about ten days ago. That’s right! I’ve been noticing my mind meandering around some of my favorite Mt. Desert haunts: the Otter Cliffs, Cadillac Mountain, the main drag […]

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Anemone Caves

Today started as a lazy day. I finally got to call my childhood girlfriend, Karol. The reception is so bad up here but, finally, I had a decent phone connection. I don’t usually make calls up here, so […]

A Walk in the Park

A lazy Sunday morning…one of my favorite things. Tonight we’re having dinner with cottage owner, Ollie, and I’m looking forward to it. Joseph and I didn’t want to do any strenuous hiking, but we wanted to do something […]

My Schoodic Treat

About fifteen years ago, for five years, Joseph and I rented a cottage on the Schoodic Peninsula. It’s about an hour north of Mt. Desert Island but it includes one of the outlier sections of Acadia National Park. […]

Am I a Mainer??

Something pretty neat happened as Joseph and I wrapped up today’s hike on the Eagle Lake carriage trail. It was a very cool ending to a full and good day! But first, we stopped at the Post Office […]

Windward Cottages

Joseph and I meandered up the coast from Portland. We usually make a stop at the tiny lobster shack called Reds Eats in Wiscasset. But the line is usually really long (about an hour’s wait) and we usually […]

My Friend Robert

Leaving Rockport around 11am, we stopped for breakfast and then headed for Maine. By midday we were at the liquor store in New Hampshire where we loaded up on two weeks worth of vacation alcohol. You might think […]

Maine Diaries 2016

This year Joseph and I were a little more organized with our pre-vacation prep and packing. We woke up, stripped the bed and made it up with clean sheets. I know it’a a little much for some people, […]

On the Way Home…

As Joseph and I traveled south out of Maine, we started listening to a book on CD. It was James Patterson’s Sundays at Tiffanys. By around 9pm, we had checked into a hotel and were on our way […]

Rainy Last Day

The weather people were finally right…they said it was going to rain and it’s pouring down in buckets! We started getting some packing done and the cottage looks a mess. Time to go home… Joseph likes to “ease […]