Author: Andrew Mooers

The Hidden Areas Of Maine Locals Know About, That Flyers Forget.

If you make your living with tourist traffic, one by one all the players send up marketing flares.

Because in Maine there is strength in numbers.

Like a single candle or singing voice, adding more helps the broadcast range. The individual efforts combine for a howitzer force punch.

Get Lost, Be Found. Find Your Island, Special Space In Maine.

And regionally, areas of Maine heave ho to put online, to print the four color glossy print.

To do the insertions on newspapers, trade journals and magazines. With a bent toward the niche audiences they are want to court and spark. Highlight the tourist attractions.

The attention starts with hitting, tickling the interest fancy. Then pushing a little harder in the marketing to create desire that leads to results. Money from the actual trip made and left behind.

And hoping the excursion to whatever area of Maine continues. Year after year with healthy frequency. And word of mouth, sharing those pics on social media outlets help whip up the gotta go there to Maine frenzy.

But.

Some areas don’t get or hog the marketing spotlight. That is why if you have never been to Maine, often the only region getting the white hots is coastal Maine. I love a lobster, took a recent trip to Wells Beach area of Maine.

Fresh Air, Clean Water, Wildlife Not People. That’s Part Of Maine’s Secret Beauty.

And love Acadia National Park, the MDI region too. Pretty special on a bike heading up Cadillac Mountain.

Or hitting the Old Port to trudge up and down the cobble stone, hilly, narrow streets around Maine’s largest harbor side city.

Where really neat churches fallen from use become local eateries. Transitioning to worshiping the locally sourced farm to table food for a new experience.

Not the old habit of just fed by the word from the good book in the tall steeple locations. With maybe a coffee cake square or apple strudel slice after the inspiration sermon given down front.

How about the small hinterland, off the beaten path places in Maine?

Ever been to Wallagrass or Drew Plantation? Where you can look up and see an explosion of stars nightly. With Maine lake loon performances heard in surround sound over the unpopulated waterways each evening for three seasons.

Simpler Small Town Living In Maine.

Then lightly falling snow deafens with quiet and takes over the controls.

In the solitude only interrupted by the hum of the wind through King pine needles vibrating in the wind.

Or a crackling, snapping, popping fire in a log lodge or cabin. After being on the snow sled or ski trail while the sunshines brightly.

But now it is night fall in Maine. After play or working out in the fresh, crisp air. Time for a “chowdah“… a good slow cooked stew. After a rich cup of coffee. Or one of Maine’s micro brews or high test grape juice. To set the stage. Cheers.

It all helps soften the dead air during the winter.

Like sounds of cheering, exuberant ice hockey fans as they watch the black circle go back and forth. Over the blue and red lines. Or the orange ball thrown up, for the swish through the twine. For two or three points.

Maine, She’s Rugged, Real, Challenges A Person. Helps You Define What Is Important.

The small areas of Maine, a rural state often find it goes “mums the word”.

You don’t get everything dissected, explained from A to Z.

Lots never make the show and tell. Like the best places to fish, hunt.

Because even though the Internet, blog posts like these help expose them.

They are still a little longer haul, a lot less publicized.

And a lot more real, all natural Maine.

Unfiltered, pure, like right out of Mother Nature’s mountain side spring water tap. Help yourself, take what you need.

Leave the rest upspoiled, for others on the dusty, less traveled trail.

The Unique State Of Maine Hand Drawn, Creatively Depicted. Like The People That Are The Fruit Of The Tree.

If you want the local real Maine slant, don’t just use sites that make users pay for the membership insertions.

Go to the blog posts with the fresh content on rich experiences. Read the reviews of the folks that thumbs up or down and not just the propaganda of the paid announcements.

Or better yet, forget the scarce reviews in the hidden wonders where they don’t exist. Because those that stumble on to them keep them unannounced. Not bragged about. And like the entrance to the Bat Cave, a secret.

Real Maine is not what the tourist information center print outs say to do.

Come see what was left out of the tourist information brochures. It is what is not talked about and kept sacred. You can not wear out your welcome in places like this. And you see the real Mainer up close and personal. Not the glimpse of one promoted from the low bidder for the marketing of tourism from out in Wisconsin.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North Street Houlton ME 04730

October 5, 2015
Breakdown Lane, Parked Or Itching For Something Missing.

Point whatever you are driving north to Maine.

Load up the Desoto, Chevy Nomad wagon, van man to the gills. Hike, bike. Heck, stick out that thumb. Bum a ride to Vacationland if you have to as your last option.

You may have friends in Maine that are one option for lodging. Couch surfing here and there. Until your feet get planted firmly under you. And you end up “sponsoring” someone the same fashion to play it ahead. Pass it on.

Recharge, Unplugged In Uncrowded Maine.

Why do people move, relocate to Maine?

This link speaks volumes on the attraction eye candy one by one. A slew of reasons for the kick in the pants. The get up and go ambition building.

But the primary reason for the let’s make the ME move is something is missing in your life. You can attempt for awhile to ignore it.

Try the lazy, throw money at it medication that works half baked at best. But it all fetches up. There is a ghost in the machine running the show.

What’s missing?

Usually space, or the lower cost of living in Maine. Friendly make eye contact, glad to see you people. Not the ones that avoid your conversations, are in one major life or death serious hurry scurry. And the idea light bulb shines brightly like an arc welder. Or the glint of rows and rows of floating sunshine lake diamonds that mesmerize.

Guiding a person’s one by one steps. To make the life mental shift to home grown rather than store bought. Do I need it or just want it thinking. One big kick in the pants. Away from multi story skyscraper living and bring it all home as Johnny’s record producer said in the studio to launch a career.

Colors Of Just Winter White, With A Splash Of Shaggy Horse Chestnut Brown.

To high tail it out of a high crime, heavy traffic location to rural Maine.

Life is too short to be stuck in grid lock. To waste it in the race.

The days and night are made to live, experience. To learn and grow from the discoveries. To grow and expand to avoid becoming narrow and stagnant. If you are happy, passionate about where you hang your hat.

Where you live, work and play. Raise a family. No place better than small town values, without living in fear.

Some folks we hear from in our job as a Maine real estate broker for coming up on 36 years. Making the leap fueled by the cattle prod of regrets.

Stuck too long between the rock and hard place without the option of going sideways or around whatever life obstacle froze them dead in their tracks. Wanting to start over, do it again Steely Dan.

The burning desire for answers to life’s problems, mysteries.

You can hear yourself think in Maine . Because no one is in your space except you. Is is a comfort living in the 4th lowest crime state.

How To Cook Up A Happy Household, Create A Happy, Responsible Family Member.

Being able to fix and repair, do your home improvements yourself and not having every micro move tied to writing a check, sliding a magnetic card.

Not spending money like a drunken sailor into port.

Or a pirate out on a night of raising cane when the rum in the tum tum firewater kicks in. Just before the black out.

Respect, easy does it, slow she goes.

Growing your own food and knowing what you put down the hatch. More hands on and feeling pretty peacock proud of what took you longer.

But the next time would be done in shorter time with what was self taught watching a you tube how to video along the way.

Your home improvement project taking a lifetime to complete but the process savored. The results sweeter because the high on the tree fruit that takes effort to reach is always tastier than the quick grab low hanging fruit.

You can do it, attah boy felt inside. Reminded if it is to be it is up to me.

Maine Is Outdoors, Friendly People, Less Crowds, More Beauty.

Maine is simple living, raise your own from out back on the vast acreage, not hemmed by inches that surrounds you.

You are not on house arrest living in Maine.

And your can telecommute, bring that old job to make it your new on in Maine. Need almost speed of thought Internet?

Folks learn along the way with the dips, twists of life that nothing stays the same. Life changes, moves fast and you better keep up with the 5,6,7,8 hokey pokey. Life does not stop for anyone. The trick to keep it all in perspective.

Knowing 95% of folks are well intentioned, want the same gusto out of their short life on the revolving green and blue marble. To consider it all joy, smiling from a generator linked to the upward turn of the corners of the mouth somewhere down close to their souls.

Maine is a place of unspoiled beauty.

Of lots of room to roam and stretch your legs. Expand your mind and streamline how you approach conflict and avoid drama. Manure storms.

Paddling Your Own Boat, Raft, Canoe, Kayak In Maine.

You can do that easier and plane out, cruise at a more turbulence free altitude when you have personal space, freedom from the layers of players that plague you in the urban concrete jungle.

Maine, she’s personal, warm, friendly and you feel the local connect.

You can sigh “whew” and replace, shed the feeling of “meh” living in Maine. Ready for a second, third helping of that?

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North Street Houlton ME 04730

September 30, 2015
Hastings Falls | Small Jaunts In Hidden Maine Wilderness

The best experiences are almost always outdoors in Maine.

Any season the same places serve up differently. Many of the outdoor hikes are made more enriching because all that they involve to pull off is a couple gallons of gas for travel.

Who Is That… Can I Help You? Eating Clover Over Here Off Rt 212 If You Don’t Mind.

A picnic basket of homemade potato salad. strawberry rhubarb pie or other goodies.

To feast on in the fresh clean air.. When it is just you, loved ones, out in all natural, always pure Maine surroundings. Or reaching up for a succulent apple that are all around you. To nibble on.

Bigger than normal this year as the bounty of good weather, the right amount of moisture paid off in dividends.

The apple trees Johnny broadcast seed far and wide on around Maine are having a bumper crop, bonanza year.

Limbs drooping to the ground in many places. Where bearing fruit larger than normal is happening as I hunt and peck.

Went to Hastings Falls, a ride around southern Aroostook County.

Not far from the north entrance to Baxter Park. Another venue to reach out and pick the fruit of tramping in those map coordinates for a future trek.

Hastings Falls can be approach two ways. Off the Clark Road in Merrill Maine.

Or heading north off the Moro Road in Aroostook County. Have done the former a number of times with small kids. In hotter weather when the red in the scale was higher in the glass tube.

Cooling Off, Earlier Trip When Kids Were Young To Hastings Falls Merrill Maine

But driving in most of the way in a jeep the latter method for approach was the mission yesterday. A day of crisp, tasty air flowing easily under a totally blue sky.

With total sunshine overhead bathing the landscape in long sideways, lower rays.

As Jack Frost assembles his paint hues, color tones. For the second bloom, for leaf peaking foliage that is just around the corner.

The water is low, you can still hear the rush of it on the approach.

But the lower volume pulls back the shades on the smooth rocking surface sandpapered over the years. From back when the Jackson Sluice Road was used for lumbering.

When it was king, and woods or farm crops were pretty much the only two flavors of employment in North Maine.

Walk Right In, Sit Right Down. Bay Let Your Hair Hang Down. (In Maine).

Small hikes, not gut wrenching, life threatening ones can serve best. When sampled with a more relaxed, easy does it approach. If you are lucky enough to live in Maine full time, or most of the year. You know what the magic is.

The short vacation long weekend or seven days is heaven too. But living here to enjoy more of Maine is where the peaceful easy feeling of true contentment resides.

Map location of Hastings Falls… two approaches to add to your bucket list as you wander around Maine.

Poking, prodding and exploring to discover Maine’s inner beauty. The areas that never get addressed in the four color glossing tourist information brochure write ups stacked and racked.

Maine, don’t stand her up.

Or keep her waiting. Get here quick as you can, as often as you can pencil her in.

Rock, Water, Sunshine, Nature. Maine.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North Street Houlton ME 04730

September 27, 2015
The Way Some People Look At Wealth.

The benchmark when the “wealthy” is not the inside kind measured in sheer gratitude.

But the outside kind that is cold hard cash. Or look at what I have that you don’t that sparkles.

Some figure they have more than enough. Take what they need and leave the rest for others. Feeling blessed that they have more than they deserve.

Raise Them With Love. Kids, Flowers, Animals In Maine. All Need Peace.

A few figure if they make more money a year than their sister or brother and their partner, they are rolling. Sitting pretty. In the cat bird’s seat. Finest kind.

What matters most when you live in small rural Maine is not status.

But how valuable you are in the day to day fabric. That this one, that one and pretty much all the local population would be sadly missed.

If plucked from the Earth. Or relocated to some other location.

Air lifted by a bright blue light from the belly of the mothership in one by one. The backyards spread pretty far apart. In a small Maine town.

How come? How does it shake and bake? There are less leaders at the top and more of the rest of the folks working together.

Like the twenty plus year sergeant that runs the platoon. Not the wet behind the ears college grad with the two silver bars on the shoulders or lapel.

Everyone pretty crossed trained as they rotate through the tasks, chores, obligations.

Happy? I Guess. Drove Hard To Win, Place In The Top Eight For Maine’s State Soap Box Derby Race In Houlton ME.

And then settle in on the one that they shine the brightest. They know it. So do all the other neighbors, friends, family in the small Maine town.

Lots of bartering to pay the bills. Get back the other guy or gal who pitched in and would not take anything for the helping hand.

You get creative and find ways that the other will appreciate for the “return the favor”. You do something to benefit their family.

To make life this winter a little easier. Heating oil or cord word mysteriously finds itself in someone else’s back yard.

Or smell that strawberry rhubarb pie. MMmmmmmm tasty and nothing store bought. Am old time recipe involved from another family.

The pie that was made with love cooling on the kitchen window sill. The pie that was not there before the household went off to church. Or down to the Piggly Wiggly to restock the pantry in the simple Maine home.

No explanation. No note, no fanfare. That’s part of the secret of Maine small town living.

The left hand not wanting the right hand to know what just happened here.

Fishing For Something Missing? Maine. Find It Here.

And helping others carry their burden. Without the spotlight of attention shining.

Because when you needed the help the most it was there. Showed up right on time. And you were blown away from the generosity. When you are not used to being helped. And definitely did not ask for it.

Small Maine town living.

Are you thinking you could be an asset in a small Maine town? Me too. Reach out and connect. Let’s plan the relocation, move to Maine.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | Email Mooers Realty |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North Street Houlton ME 04730

September 20, 2015
Maine Once Had 90 Ski Areas, Could Be Down To 16 By The Holidays.

Making snow on Maine’s ski slopes costs lots of money.

Empty ski mountain chairs don’t crank in revenue. Anything like farming, seasonal dairy bars, outdoor go carts or mini golf that depends on the weather being blue sky and sunshine. Not rain.

It’s a finicky proposition. And today, there are so many choices for things to do for fun. Competing with an overbooked families time. To visit the nearest small Maine ski area mountain for some gravity driven fun on one or two skis. Or a snow tube.

The Average Snow Sledder In Maine Spends $150 A Day. Win Win, Big Fun & New $$$ Happens.

So to make money beyond when the snow is on the ground, Maine ski areas have tried boatloads of activities to create steady income.

To extend the season beyond just when the snow flies. After April until the pair of year end holidays appear on the calendar.

Endurance runs up and down the hill, through mud, under barbed wire to simulate boot camp. Inviting snow sled groups in to cook outs and music fests. Before the trails are groomed and sleds put into action.

Micro breweries, craft beer maker tasting sessions are another crowd pleaser. For folks who don’t coward, chicken out and head to the sunny south destinations.

Fall foliage rides up and down the chair life. Or gondola line that is idle three seasons and not putting a dime into the company coffers.

Maine Lower Temperatures Mean Turn Up The Heat On Home Fuel Oil Conservation.

Have two local mountains in Northern Maine to get a downhill ski fix quickly.

One in Mars Hill, Big Rock that is working on profitability.

The other technically in Canada, Crabbe Mountain.

But nothing like staying, spending a holiday or long weekend at Sugarloaf USA .

Or Sunday River Ski Area. The others dotted around the Maine countryside. To give good reason to stop waving the TV channel changer wand.

To avoid the trips to the refrigerator to crack open a Ben and Jerry’s.

To hunt down the cheese doodles. Or pop a top of a barley pop. Pour a gurgle, chug alug of warm or cold, stemmed glassware sampling of high test grape juice.

Maine, Try To Describe Which Shade Of Blue, White Happening Here.

Golf courses parked next to ski areas. Hiking trails to use the hill and dales for better health.

All of it makes you want to preserve your local small Maine ski area. Learn more about Maine’s snow ski industry.

To preserve the sport, the outdoor Nordic pastime of attaching the boards.

And plying the new fallen snow in Maine during the winter months. When we get outside just like the other three seasons. We don’t hibernate through any of them.

Are you a skier, thinking of snow even thought spring, summer, fall in Maine are pretty darn special?

Or is climbing on an ice rocker, a Maine snow sled more your speed? To hit an open field trail or smooth lake ice bed and pull the trigger for a burst of sheer thrill?

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North Street Houlton ME 04730

September 15, 2015
Go Fly A Kite In Maine.

Maine. Bring the kids, add lots of seashore sand, the sound of the surf.

Mix in the smell of the salt air off the coast of Maine. And if the wind is just right, take a kite skyward.

Don’t forget the sunscreen. Or to go for a sail boat ride fueled by the wind.

Anchor and take a dip, a nap, read a good book. Grill something back on the aft to take to the bow.

Listen To The Surf, Dazzle The Eyes With Water Diamonds. Wells / Moody Beach Maine.

Spent the Labor Day Weekend in the Wells Beach area and really enjoyed the Maine coastline. Brought you home a few snapshots from the Brownie Hawkeye.

You can not help but have fun on the Maine coast. You have to be amused and at put at total ease in the Maine beach regions.

Of The Yorks, Ogunquit, Wells, Sanford, The Kennebunks, Biddeford, Saco and Old Orchard Beaches.

Several helpings of fried clams hauled up from the deep destroyed.

A trip to Reny’s for the sand toys. Other bargains. (Pronouced BARRrr-gins)

N’er Beach Motel is well located affordable lodging option. If you are not couch surfing. Planning to sleep in your car or under a bridge.

Zeroing in on a touch down in the Wells beaches area of Maine?

With everything you need handy and easy to access, the N’er Beach Motel is about 45 units of lodging, one super where to stay option. To consider when you open the wallet or purse wide.

Trolley service to shuttle you back and forth from Wells to Ogunquit Maine tourist attractions. With words on front that rhyme with trolley one way. Blue ones with sea terms on the front heading north during the Maine tourist season.

Steer The Shortest Path To Maine. Get Some Sand In Your Shoes.

Look Mom, no hands. No driving needed for the 10 and 2. All aboard. Step to the back.

Hang out the open sides of the trolley rides and meet other “tour guides” that give you the straight skinny. On all the fine dining establishments to add dimension to your waistline.

The insider secrets shared. The ones about where to get the best experience for the memory making. What you take home to wherever you hang your lid.

Maine is famous for fine food.

And there is no shortage of it along the coastal towns of Maine.

Lots of outdoor farmer’s markets to do the dining plenty home grown and totally heathy too.

No shortage of roadside stands for the fruit and veggies in Maine.

The vacation along the Maine coast does not all have to revolve around the green clawed lobster that turns bright red.

When the timer ding dings it is time for the bib and jaws of life.

To extract the delicate meat to dip and let swim in the melted butter.

Sample ME. Pick A Place To Plant Your Beach Chair Along The Miles Of Maine Coastline.

Where the red carpet for the tourists is rolled out and kept fresh, new and different.

To gain the return traffic to familiar old stomping grounds in Vacationland.

But hanging out at the beaches of Maine. Hopefully, to pass on the habit to the younger ones.

Who are taught by example on this is one way to do this game call life.

To create the best uses of the spaces. Of time that you cull out and cherish.

Coast along the Maine coast.

Preserving the downtime to unplug and recharge from the total relaxation.

A Break From The Water, Flying A Kite At The Wells / Moody Beach Seashore.

There is nothing like it to make everyone feel relaxed.

Instantly. Because all the cares of the World evaporate.

That is what a true vacation is suppose to do. Suspend your life.

Replacing it with a whole entirely new backdrop. To gain perspective.

To reflect on how your life has been going. To continue or change the course heading as you see fit. Or steady as she goes because everything is fine and dandy.

In the rolling waves and timing the tide just right.

For a fun day in Maine at the coast, soaking up the sunshine and blue sky.

Have you had your sessions, plenty of doses of Maine sea coast this year?

And explored all the other areas of this big state of Maine? No matter what the season?

Maine, don’t stay away so long.

Pick A Season. Enjoy Your Place In The Sun In Maine.

Don’t stand her up or keep her waiting.

Bask regularly in her drop dead beauty any chance you get.

Here is a handy dandy Maine beaches guide. Maine has more than 28,000 bodies of water. Not just the Atlantic Ocean hogging the vacation spotlight.

Imagine 6000 ponds and lakes over an acre in size. Plus 22,000 pools and ponds. That ought to keep you from going thirsty for Maine waterfront fun recreational options.

Maine has over 32,000 miles of fishing water, for paddling whatever vessel you captain.

When you are lucky enough to live in Maine, there is no excuse whatsoever.

For missing out on scheduling the fun to take in the many attractions.

Farm Fresh Locally Sourced Food From Maine. Get Healthy Inside And Out In Maine.

The picking a few new ones from the long list of what makes Maine one of a kind special.

Ever thought how lucky you would be if you were relocated, retired in Maine?

Or just packed up and brought your telecommuting job to Maine?

Maine is one place to find your style. To get away from all the people that cramp it now where you live in the concrete urban jungle.

Maine, your best choice for healthy living.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North Street Houlton ME 04730

September 8, 2015