Of all the special places to run away to when you make time to explore and discover.
Get To Maine. You Have No Idea What You Are Missing Staying Away.
She grabs your heart strings. Hard.
Tugs, takes over in a good way.
And you don’t mind in the least and know you are caught hook, line and sinker. Powerless to stay away.
You hear the click, feel the snap and know something major just happened that is hard to explain. The missing piece has been found. Your love affair with Maine builds.
But all you do is smile.
Feeling warm and special.
Inside, outside.
Neat, sweet and complete.
Everyone A Different Experience, The Start, Ends Of Days.
Vacationland is scratched, pressed on to the bottom of most of our license plates for a reasons too.
So the simple things, like a Maine sunrise, sunsets. Start with those and realize they are over the top because you can experience them without the crowd of people.
Missing the noise, any interference that robs the take away. It transforms a person who is bone tired weary.
Don’t throw in that towel yet.
Or begin waving the white flag.
Maine, you might be staying away just a tad too long this last time.
Get here quick as you can and don’t be a stranger. Especially if you have never set foot in the great state of Maine
The cost of entertainment, many places require the swipe of plastic.
Buying this, that, paying for parking. Beg, borrow and steal for all the extras that Maine provides no charge. Too many people, good bad and ugly change the atmosphere of your day to day life.
It is not just what we have here that excites and calms. The peace and beauty are not the best things either. Not just about all that we have and are grateful for either. Blessed with. No no.
Outdoors, That’s Where People Hang Out In Maine.
The list that excites and calms at the same time. Has plenty of room for more. But wait there is more.
The happy and you know it goes on and on about what we don’t have in Maine too. That you don’t need. But take for granted when living in a city, urban landscape.
Where tough titty. Here you go. Stop your whining. You can not have this, this and that in the concrete jungle. Not going to happen. Get over it.
No traffic, 4th lowest crime stat, no lack of clean air and water. That’s Maine.
And wide open space. Lots of woods infested with wildlife. Wide open water escapes.
But the people in Maine.
Fewer in number, their volunteer hearts second to none in strength. Family values, work ethic, the connection is constant.
Simple beauty. No one in your face. And outdoor camping options up the kazoo. Pack a lunch, hit the trail, tap into the natural beauty surrounding you in Maine. Bike, hike, kayak, ski, swim (repeat).
Some folks argue they don’t like the vibe. The connection that somehow everyone in the small Maine town is wired jointly in a myriad of ways. Beyond just the DNA strands that share common genetic make up.
Many who move, relocate to Maine comment on the closeness with fondness though.
They find the small town friendly way of life in Maine refreshing. And remind the locals here that making eye contact back in the big city where they had to work to advance their career. Had it’s double edged sword drawbacks.
Lots Of Parade Watchers In Small Maine Towns. Your Friends And Neighbors.
Don’t get involved, act uninterested, keep your distance.
That approach to living won’t work if you ker plop, parachute into a small Maine town. Why? You are needed. You have skills, talents. It is time to get involved. There is work to do in small Maine towns. Where everything is not hired. The folks responsible for events are not hired but volunteers.
And everyone knows there is nothing stronger than the heart of a small Maine town volunteer.
The fourth of July. Folks take their vacations to work them.
Spending the entire week hopping from event to event. Not to attend them. But to enjoy putting them
Folks Are Friendly, Easy Going In Crime Free Small Maine Towns.
on. Working the long hours preparing. Manning the posts once the planning is done and it is show time.
Laughing with the others that pitch in, that give their heart and soul in the volunteering.
Learning from others in the labor of love and sharing tid bits, odds and ends of personal information back and forth. So the take away is more than the event.
There is a rich experience that happens inside when you are lucky enough to be part of community events in a small Maine town. People smile, relax around each other and enjoy small town living in Vacationland.
Down Town Maine Small Town Celebrations, Festivals. Home Grown Tasty, Special, Memorable.
Maine’s fourth of July.
You stay in a town that has lots going on. All your out of town family and friends come home too. What did you do over the fourth of July celebration? Here are some other images of just one event, a fourth of July parade in a Northern Maine town. But in reverse, with a twist.
Looking out as the possession. A different direction for the focus. As the parade possession slowly snakes, plys the streets of the special Maine community.
The events that happen in a small Maine community.
That happen year round on the calendar. The people prove the point that they are the small town. Not the sticks and bricks, the structures no matter how elegant or pretty. Take away the people and it is last guy or gal out, remember to shut off the lights.
Please friend me on Facebook. Your other social media outlets so we can connect on those platforms, to exchange easily. Hope your fourth of family fun and special.
Often crusty coastal folks of few words but ones that drive home the point with an verbal economy. Those are the spokesmen sometimes used in the tell me what Maine is all about stories. Or to weave into the stream of Maine humor if you are Tim Sample, Bob Marley.
The yarn spun, the tales exaggerated but funny.
Just not all so accurate to represent the garden variety folks walking the Earth in Maine. Because it leaves out the rest of the down home town proud locals in the state of Maine. Working hard to survive, raise a family. Just anxious to pitch in and make a difference on the local landscape.
Growing What You Eat, Knowing Where It Came From Is Maine.
So in my job as a Maine real estate broker, it happens once in awhile. A customer buys a farm, lakefront property or old quaint Victorian smasher of a house.
And less than a year later we get a call to bring one of your red, white and blue signs.
Plant it on the front lawn would ya? We are heading back to wherever we lived twelve months ago.
Maine may have been the third, fourth stop in the move and groove. So they know how to assume the position to relocation, make the transition. Again. Kept all the boxes.
Sometimes the reason is a loved one left behind needs them. Sick mom, failing health brother, divorced daughters with little ones. Someone in the family needs them.
But the motivation to high tail it back and turn the wagons in a big wide circle 180 degrees is not always a bad health situation down country.
Or a hard time to find a job in their field or the employment they had here in Maine drying up. And just for the record, many do telecommute to Maine for work.
No, the reason to move is because the people were cold, they could not make friends.
Whoa. Really? When you ask a few more questions filling in the blanks on the list to sell agreement, you hear some themes. Familiar ones about no one invited us over for beans and hot dogs.
Small Town Maine Is Clean, All Natural. Fresh!
Or we have no kids, everyone around Maine is family oriented. So we feel odd man out. Don’t go to church or sporting events either.
Even though they do admit folks reached out to invite them to holidays. When the neighbors down the road knew they were in the house by their lonesome.
You have to make an effort and to have friends, you have to be one.
Why would someone avoid another human being in their home town? If a steady diet of conversation shared is how stupid the locals are.
That might hammer hit the nail on the head. If lots of “back in Jersey” or wherever the transplant in a new land used to live is salt and peppered in the chit chat. That gets old too if dripping with negativity from an Eeyore.
Mainers love to learn about where you lived before as they bring you up to speed on the way things rock and roll, shake and bake in the local surroundings.
Maine Horses, Stick Together, Are Close Like The People.
But even though the average run of the mill Mainer can on occasion whine a tad, the first year of a new move to Maine property owner needs to bite the tongue.
Because someone else with a vehicle wearing the same plate that came to Maine earlier could be the problem. The kink in the hose.
That has burnt some bridges rubbing folks the wrong way. Put a bad mouth taste that can taint others that hail from the same location. Guilt by association.
Maine is full of hardworking, super friendly folks because we don’t live in fear in the 4th lowest crime state. We get involved, feel and feed the local connection. But don’t take a cotton to others who dump on the small Maine towns they are so proud of and work so hard to protect and preserve.
Even someone from southern Maine can get on a high horse and start to begin the let’s rescue the locals routine.
Thinking because we lived a stint closer to the big city of Bean town, that that influence adds an edge. That should make the locals some kind of hand stand happy they moved here to “save them”.
Maine Is Small, Friendly, Glad To Be In Vacationland Full Time Or Any Time At All!
Resentment, avoidance and the passion of whatever a group is doing suffers when this air enters the meeting. So new, moving to Maine, want to get along and play ball fairly?
Ease up on the I am up here, you are down there needing a leg up approach.
The expertise, experiences, stories are welcomed from out of town, out of state. The spoon full of sugar approach works best like in the musical. Kind not snide.
Paddle gently in the pool of people, personalities.
The local Mainers are plenty resourceful, well educated, highly committed to their small home towns.
Be the same in the approach to answer the question “what can I do to help”?
I had read rhetoric this week about an individual who went on and on about how lucky their new small Maine home town was that they had landed there.
See The Light, Love The Surroundings, The Locals In Maine Small Towns.
And the locals should come away being some kind of glad they had.
An air of smugness, a spirit of not finding much good about anyone in the small Maine town shared behind the scenes. Removed all the good. In the me, me, me what a gift they are.
We have lots of saviors in small Maine towns pouring in their heart and soul day and night. That don’t need attention or recognition.
To glean the new experiences working together. That’s the true Maine unplugged, unfiltered and raw, refreshing. For the take away from somewhere else that could benefit a new community in the spirit of kindness and cooperation.
If you are lucky enough to live in Maine full time, it is like a horse let loose in a new field of spring clover.
Pace yourself. There are jobs around your home to perform first. Tasks to get out of the way for chores. Before hitting the trail, open road or waterways to bask in what Maine does best.
Maine Lighthouses, Started Your Collection Yet?
Providing unspoiled wide open space Maine trumps everyone else in it’s sheer vastness.
The kind of space where you can hear yourself think.
Reflect on how life is going. To correct the steering a tad to keep it headed in the right direction. As you juggle the elements of life for balance, moderation, peace and an enriched experience.
Sampling it, not racing through it. That’s the simple Maine way of living. Common theme of this blog posting in Maine hunt and peck.
Okay, so instead of exploring alone or in a small group, experiencing a Maine festival should be part of the taking in Vacationland.
And all she has to offer. Planning those excursions in Maine means avoid the hard telling without knowing feeling stuck in your craw. Festival listings for Maine.
Something for everyone, all ages makes the festivals in Maine eenie meenie miney moe a tough selection process.
More than enough to entice and trying hard to avoid the sheer regret. From missing out on more than one event on each end of Maine when someone put too much into one weekend that you want to sample.
Festivals To Share Music, Crafts, Food And Brew. That’s Part Of Maine To Sample!
A street fair in Southern Maine to say thank you. I read somewhere Shipyard was the 12th largest brewery of its kind in the nation. And a neat article from it’s fearless leader about why the success in his operation. Maine is 5th in the nation for micro breweries.
Where he credits the gains in growth and market share by simply hiring the best people. Letting them dig in and manage their areas of expertise without being micro managed or ham stringed. Forced to wear a straight jacket.
Festivals in Maine, some revolved folk music, some around farming. Here is a list of Maine agricultural fairs to fit your schedule of free time. Some with free time cleared in the schedule.
Celebrating Fresh Locally Source Food With Maine Farmers At Open Air Markets.
Gravitating naturally to festivals for Maine lighthouses. That’s what some do with their down time. To visit and collect lighthouses in Maine.Get centered and to find peace letting go. Taking thousand yard stare strolls with the peepers off the points they protect.
Or volunteer to preserve the Maine lighthouses for others to visit and enjoy.
Around the 68 venues that Maine has for sentinel outposts. To help navigation out on the open waters off the coast of Maine. That offer one spectacular setting for picture taking, memory making.
Things to do for fun in Maine on your days off from work. So what do you have planned for the weekend, your next vacation? To pause for some away from the same old hometown surrounding routines?
Maine offers so many home grown unique experiences to entertain and enrich the soul. Add your two cents worth on what pumps you up in Maine!
I have heard the expression, statement that there are only two real kinds of people in this World.
If you reduced it down to peas and carrots, apples or oranges in grading people.
All Walks Of Life Make A Small Maine Community Shine.
You are either busy living, or busy dying. As Andy is told wearing prison garb faded blues. Dreaming of Mexico sitting up against, propped, holding up an institutional concrete block wall.
Surrounded by several strands of hurricane circles of barb wire.
Juggling a hand full of small rocks and loose sand like he was just idling in the warming up a pair of dice.
To get back in to the game. The one on the outside.
To help unwind and get centered. Others hike, bike, jog, paddle a kayak. Or wet a fishing line right around sunrise.
Or toting some fire power as they try hard. Not to scare while tip toeing. Rustling the dead leaves of
Fishing For Something Missing? Maine. Find It Here.
brilliant fall colors as sunset nears. Looking for winter food to park in the family chest freezer.
Others would bend your ear.
Have you thinking that there are but two species of human nature. That what motivates you makes you take one or the other side of the gym. Suit up.
Take you pick. The one labeled “Vocation” or “Vacation”.
The former never working a day in their life at a profession that feels anything but like work.
Because they are a happy raisin in the right place.
Under the big yellow light, heat source arcing overhead.
Maine, Get High. Lots Of Chances To Rise Above The Static.
Whatever you classify yourself, whatever makes you tick there is one thing we can all agree on.
Here and now, wouldn’t you say we all need peace and quiet, extra helping of unspoiled wide open space? To easy does it. To unplug, recharge. To gain perspective. Hear yourself think.
Life is ticking by. Nothing to lament, everything to gain by realizing it is short. But how you live it, what you show up for and add to yours is so so important.
And why a place like Maine was created. Maine, don’t keep her waiting. Pencil in that Maine vacation. Like the oil change, you are way way overdue.
Don’t stand her up or you only hurt yourself in missing out.
This fourth of July, anytime you can sneak away to head north up the pike.
To cross the big green bridge on the other end close to Bean Town. Get to Maine. See what you have been missing in Vacationland.
