Category: Maine Real Estate

When You Are Lucky Enough To Live In A Small Maine Town…

It’s the little things and you feel the connection living in a small Maine town full time.

Like during a local movie, when you are at the snack bar as the lights dim. The movie coming attractions begin the splash on the silver screen. Before you can maneuver back to wherever you and your clan are sitting in the dark as the inside of a cow theater setting. As you slow to a creep on the tilted runway carpet when you ask yourself “isn’t it right around this row some place where I need to park?”

Maine, Drop Dead Gorgeous. Low Priced Property, Lacking Crime, Crowds, Traffic.

And then you hear a Psst… a whisper from the folks two rows back that nicely help you get your bearings as the lobby bright light wears off. “Andy, next row, one more.” Thank you to film patrons about to enjoy the same flick.

Or tragedy hits, your cat or dog is hit by a car, drowns in a swimming pool, something takes away the family pet. You get a call, neighbors rally to help you with the loss, know who’s cat or dog it is and help you with the arrangements on what do do now. They feel badly to be the one to announce what happened and continue to say a little prayer. To keep you in their thoughts in the tough days ahead.

Or months, years after a loss in a family out of the blue this and that community member who doesn’t need recognition for an act of kindness drops off tonight’s supper. Providing another meal next week because others surprised them the same way when down and out discouraged.

Energy, Promise, Exercise, Discipline, Entertainment In Small Maine Towns! Our Youth Provide It In Maine Communities.

The grateful recipient not sure who is responsible because so many doing the same meal time pitch in and help ritual. Because they have all been in a tough situation and out of the woodwork many hands helped to collectively pick you up from a life low point. And abundant gardens, making two casseroles instead of one happens in a small Maine town household. And someone else is taking care of desert, the bread or another side dish. Take what you need and share the rest. Amen.

Ask for directions when new to a small town in Maine way of living. Folks are super helpful, often say follow me, I’ll tractor beam take you there right now to avoid delay or chance getting lost. But other times the how to get there from here involves old businesses that are long gone. The former building owner is referred to and old names die hard.

In my home town where Western Auto was or Ames or Chain Apparel were located don’t help much in a search when lost. Hannaford is still called Shop N Save when you need groceries. Some remember it as Sampson’s or can mentally look further back because this is and has been their home town for a long long time. Even though University College now takes up that space, not aisles of groceries or Plaza Pharmacy that had a cure for what ever ails you. If your daughter was on birth control pills, a different pharmacy handled the prescription filling for the sake of appearances for your regular druggist I was told by one local who had more than one outlet for medications for a reason.

The Irving Big Stop though is still called Traveler’s with the green snack bar counter tops even though the Texaco brand of gas and diesel have not gushed in the fuel lines for decades. Whoever has been at a business location longest in your memory is who you associate the GPS coordinates giving directions to the tourists.

Where was Panther Fuel again… you know, the building on Bangor Street with the hand painted drawing of a black as midnight cat wearing a chain with the green emerald. The using landmarks long gone can work with a local giving directions. But telling a lost motorists to head past the Miss Aroostook Diner to the Gulf station at the triangle where you turn left to head past Houlton Truck Garage is not so effective when all the landmarks you refer to are gone or renamed.

Maine Community Bands, One Of The Many Perks In Small Communities That “Band” Together.

Small town community members know and trust each other.

They work on local events, some are relatives and attend the same weddings, funerals, family reunion shin digs. Folks know what others are struggling with and it’s not kept a secret. Working together on this activity forces you to know others on a personal level. You know who to call for anything needing attention because you have first hand experience with others in your small Maine home town.

You don’t just know their name, you know how many kids, their names, stuff about them. Who the third owner back was for this house, that home. What used to be in the empty lot that was lost in a fire or just wore out and went to it’s knees like a dinosaur.

Someone is stopped along the road, we slow and roll down the window to ask need help? Jumper cables ready and held in both hands like shocking paddles to get you back in the flow of traffic and moving. Had a mason tell me today about living in Rochester New Hampshire where on the way to a job there was a car on the side of the road with steam pouring out from under the engine hood.

We Should Take This Route Over By Bible Point When President Teddy Roosevelt Started His Vacation Day Hunting / Fishing In Maine. See? It’s Right (Squinting) There On The Trail Map.

He stopped to ask how he could help, what they needed, what was the problem to offer his assistance. The car owner cowered, did not roll down the glass to create the door opening to talk. And wanted him to go away, not trusting him to be of any help with a fearful leave me alone reception shared.

Trying to help lend a hand does not play well in areas where crime is heavy and your sincerity is questioned.

Don’t get involved becomes the order of the day to play it safe for your own survival. To avoid a set up in situations where everything is not as it seems.

Maybe we are naive, too helpful and trusting in a small Maine town. But I am glad we are and it is sad everyone is not no matter where they live on the planet. Always carry a set of battery jumper cables, have a willingness to share a cell phone to make calls. Hide a tow rope in the back to use pulling a vehicle out of a ditch or stuck in a snow bank. Let’s try a bottle of dry gas, pump the hood and let’s hunt for loose wires or an easy fix to the current vehicle problems.

You have front line first hand information on the lay of the land and everyone in it past and present in a small Maine town.

That makes it like David and the sling slot quick to fix and repair a need. To know who you gonna call. In city urban living you don’t know the others on the crowded sea of faces on the sidewalk of asteroids coming at you. And you hunker down, look low and don’t want to, don’t need to, don’t care to because it’s cold and impersonal rules the day.

People care about the individuals in a small Maine town.

The circles we travel are smaller so you bump into people you know more often too. The population is more spread out and the landscape slightly sparse in rural areas. Most of Maine are small, many teeny weenie. A little out of the way on the road less traveled. The locals know why the little league field is named the way it is. Steve Porter was a veteran lost in the Vietnam War who was a heck of an athlete. More than just a solider who gave all.

911 addresses are not used by all who still prefer to call the McSheffery Road the Hogan Road. Most back roads and town streets had another name or two or three in Maine communities. The locals knew the names, the standardization happened for those who did not in Emergency service providing.

Parades For Causes, To Increase Awareness And Show Support! Small Maine Towns Are Like That When Lucky Enough To Live In One.

Working on local fund raisers, sporting events, community projects makes the connection with others in your area even stronger. The connection increases the longer you live in a small Maine town. That’s your ball coach over there, that man in line at the grocery store ahead of you is the son of your town manager. The lady behind you gets a smile, nice day and you receive a comment back about community theater, the canoe race, the upcoming holiday.

Something is discussed with others you meet in your travels to the hardware store, popping into a local business for a product, service repair, whatever. And no one is ignored or avoided in small Maine towns. That would be rude when you do know each other right?

People let others go ahead of them in the banker teller line. They smile, wave, are friendly and seem happy. The elderly shut in are worried about, looked in on and you don’t want them breaking a hip and needing a pin because they slipped on glare ice hidden under a blanker of new white fluffy powdered snow that only makes it more polished and dangerous.

You serve on boards, rotate into new ones and know how small towns rock and roll. You face new challenges together when the economy dips. You share joy in hard fought battles to fix problems and belt tighten where there is waste in public spending. Frugal is not the same as cheap. Nothing sucks the life blood out of a small Maine community faster than duplication of services.

You feel the joys, the pain, whatever happens in a small Maine town as a group, as one unit in this all together.

You know who is driving many of the cars and trucks approaching you on a highway. And instinctively know old Mr. Jackins has poor vision and to give him a wide berth. Maybe pull over to let him pass by with an accident. Plus he is driving a pickup with an angled your direction bright yellow Fisher snow plow blade up front that demands your attention.

You Can Hear Yourself Think! Ever Thought Of Living In A Small Maine Town?

Small rural Maine locations also help you find solitude when loneliness requires it to heal from a loss. They knew your parents, you remember theirs long after they depart this Earth. Everyone pulls together, leans in to begin the steps to process grief when it arrives right on time as it will in any person’s life.

In small Maine towns, you share the joys, experience the low points and have historical perspective on the folks who live two houses over or the next road up in your country location.

You know others from serving on sports or music boosters groups. From capital campaigns to raise money for something very needed in the local area. Working behind the scenes makes you pulled deeper. As the investment in your local community tugs on each and every one of your heart strings.

Is it like that where you live? Do you have this kind of view? Lots of low priced real estate inventory to select from in your area? Do you lack crime, traffic, the sounds of airport jets or EMS vehicles where you call home now?

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

October 26, 2018
Living In Maine, Sometimes There’s A Fly In The Ointment.

Small town rural Maine is simpler living whether you are on vacation or considering moving here full time.

And even though the fresh air, blue skies, clean water and friendly people are on the list of perks, sometimes pests need to be handled. We’re not talking mosquitoes and black flies this time around blogging. Maybe it’s Canadian geese on the war path leaving their calling card on your Maine lake property front lawn.

Stay Outdoors Mr Chipmunk, Mr Squirrel. Pests In Maine, The List Includes Beavers, Pigeons, Canadian Geese, Ducks! But We Are Missing The Poisonous Ones Other Hotter, Humid Population Centers Have.

And everyone knows the mother duck with the babies in tow out front the waterfront cottage are a cute but returning bothersome fertilizer depositor up on shore or covering your boat dock. Think about what happens after the introductory feed of stale bread to the quackers. And if you don’t, how do you feel about swimmer’s itch? Pass the medicated lotion please. At least the singing or crying Maine lake loon stays out on the water. Can not walk or come up on shore to be a nuisance.

Raccoons, porcupines, noisy crows, ravens on so big they seem to be on steroids. Maine black bears thrashing around in your garden’s fresh on the stock corn that go wild in a feeding frenzy. Whooping it up late at night. Over eating and making a mess of things. It happens. Just keep the red fox or coyote out of the hen house because they like you and I love chicken dinners too.

What other pests can happen in Maine?

Well, colder winter temperatures help curb lots of what other hot and humid areas can offer you for pest irritations. We lack the poisonous snakes, the large array of spiders that bite you just once and that’s all it took. Call the funeral home. Make the arrangements.

More Animals, Wildlife, Less People. Maine Does Not Have Gangs, The Crime Element.

Sometimes a relocating Maine real estate buyer moving is from an area where there are termites eating their woodwork. Those folks can infect their own household in Maine with what hitch hiked up I-95 hidden in the trailer or truck load of personal belongings.

I have not seen evidence of termites in my travels but around a lake with wet decaying wood a carpenter ant, a cousin to the termite can leave their calling card of handiwork. Powder post beetles I have heard of attacking a barn in Maine but it seems isolated, less occurring. I bet Jack Frost and old man winter help keep the pest uprisings to a minimum in four season Maine. More on Maine pests.

Pigeons, they are peaceful and don’t appear to be the smartest bird in Maine.

But once they decide your property is a good place to nest and rest, word gets around. More show up and then what do you do? You may not want to remove them using firepower and a bee bee gun is not the weapon of choice to encourage them to move along. When they are high up on a farm barn that can be fifty or more feet in the air. Just a tad out of reach with the Daisy red rider rifle copper pellets.

The Wildlife Were Here First. We Try To Live Together, Just Keep Them Out Of Our Maine Homes.

Live trapping the pigeon is an option. The cage large enough for eight to ten of the pigeons. Who swoop down to see what’s being served up for a snack inside and behind the wire cage with fresh popcorn, peanuts or something that welcome them in. To the Hotel California in Maine that you can enter any time you want but you can never leave.

Don’t pigeons know how to fly long distances? They are used by some to carry messages on their stick like legs in a capsule delivered by air mail. What’s to keep them from flying back? It’s what homing pigeons did over and over before Express Mail, next day Fed Ex, drone deliveries, pony express right?

Heck even beavers that are causing the waterways to back up behind your Maine homestead in the brook or stream that becomes a growing larger pond from their paddy whack dams. They too may need to be relocated, the dams removed so the flooding water can return to normal level conditions. But I know of one person who had the animal control folks trap and take a trip. To release a beaver transported thirty five miles from where they were caught in the live trap. And it only took three weeks after the open the door, here you go relocation into the deeper wilds of Maine. As they go over hill and dale to return to the original home they were evicted from not so long ago. Did you miss us while we were gone? The pests sure did you at the home sweet home they were forced to leave against their wishes.

How did the Maine property owner know it was the same not a new beaver?

Don’t they all look alike, the same thing the wildlife says about us? One beaver in the exodus had a white spot on it’s nose which I am told is rare like two eyes each a different color David Bowie, Jane Seymore were born with for peepers. I don’t think they checked the DNA to be sure but all I know is they’re back. The beaver returns or more just like the ones evicted showed up to keep the water rising. We all know how hard beaver work around the clock like a Maine farmer who has logged a forty hour week by Tuesday noon.

Wild Turkeys In Maine. You Can Have To Pile On The Brakes When Around A Blind Highway Corner Too Many Appear. And Don’t Move Fast Making Way For A Speeding Vehicle.

Have had a woodchuck under a building that liked nibbling on the flower garden bloom that was live trapped. Then set free in an unorganized township. It did not return but that does not mean another that gets the same idea to dig in and hang around won’t do the same free loading on the Maine farm. Ever heard of the Colorado potato beetle?

Winter approaching means lots of rodents want to hurry scurry to get in under cover for the lower temperatures and blanket of snow days forecasted ahead.

The two legged animals bank their Maine homes, pile the firewood, dig out the snow shovel and wool socks, mitten, head wear. It’s called survival right? Pass the acorns, nuts, berries and hunker down to hibernate until spring returns.

Where did I hide the Jiffy ice auger for winter lake fishing and the cross country snow skis? Up over the garage or was it down in the basement? Mainers are outdoors year round. Just dress a little differently to reflect the changing seasons.

Chipmunks are cute but very destructive inside a Maine dwelling of any kind. Show of hands of anyone feeling differently that has had them move in and take over. No one wants to see a red squirrel take up residence either inside the walls or up over the ceiling of where you live. And where you try to sleep when the lights go out as they run back and forth, up and down all around you, keeping you up at night. I have one older daughter living in Boston who says newer cars have wiring made with soy that attract city rats. Her 2009 Subaru has been spared when others parked around it were targeted. Peppermint oil is supposed to help thwart the rats and cause them to move along looking for another vehicle to nibble on when it is meal time.

City living getting you down? Maine, small town simple living. Looking for a piece of that?

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

October 5, 2018
Weatherization Programs | Making The Maine Home Easily To Heat And Cool.

Being cold is never something Mainers desire and heating, cooling your home takes money.

Making the Maine home more efficient to stay warm to to be cool means study. To see what heating assistance programs, what weatherization funding in Maine the home owner or apartment renter, the landlord qualifies for today. This blog post is designed to help folks living in Maine find out ways to improve the living space and to have money left over normally shelled out to heating or cooling a residence.

Four Seasons, Sometimes One Ends Quickly In Maine.

For the home owner, the one in Maine that does not qualify for any state funding, there are still a slew of things to do to make the house tighter.

Without being so wrapped tight that mold or moisture becomes a problem. Maine has older housing stock. Here is a link on making your older Maine home warmer, easier to heat in winter. If you are building a new home, wonder about tax credits available to those that utilize certain practices, here is another helpful Maine weatherization link.

Home energy heating assistance, what is the income guideline for a helping hand with the heating?

Maine Winter Fun Playing Outside, Red Cheeks, Fresh Air Filling The Lungs.

Study the income eligibility numbers for household incomes to qualify in Maine. Help with the high cost of winter heating expenses is critical but even more so is funding for weatherizing Maine homes. Because anything done for a renter or low income home owner to make their living space more energy efficient improves the household bottom line.

Money left over after paying the monthly household expenses is a beautiful thing. So is being warm as toast and not feeling drafts, being cold.

My oldest brother Stephen worked for years heading up the Penquis CAP weatherization program. I am proud of how well he utilized the government funding programs on the federal, state, county levels to tighten up homes and to improve the bottom line on energy costs to make them more comfortable. Have you ever had a home energy audit in your Maine household? It is reported that Maine homes are two to three times as leaky as building science standards thinks they should be.

Maine, Working Hard To Live Simply, Pay Your Bills.

Maine Weatherization to tighten up drafty homes, to add insulation and to improve energy efficiency heating them helps reduce poverty.

Because money wasted on heating a Maine home means less available for other expenses like good nutrition, for quality of life, for peace of mind having a nest egg of savings! Feathering your nest to make it home sweet home.

Do you have some home heating assistance plans to make whatever roof is over your head more comfortable and to increase energy efficiency? Tightening up a home in Maine is an on going task and we make it a game to be warm as cheaply as possible.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

September 5, 2018
List Of Airports In Maine

Small private pilot airplanes, they are becoming more common as individuals take to the friendly skies over Maine.

Wings And Wheels Makes A Local Border Airport Buzz With Activity.

Here is a list of all the airports in Maine. The small community airport helps connect rural Maine with population centers. But most don’t attract large commercial airliners with first class and coach filled to the brim with sky commuters. Because too many empty seats on a daily schedule of flights that are not subsidized.

The small air strip in a Maine town has a lot of activity someone without their wings would not be aware of each day. Where I live especially on the US – Canadian border there is another element of air traffic with small personal planes that are the jet fuel and gas guzzling type.

You Never Know What You Will See, What Goes On At A Small Local Maine Airport.

Clearing customs, immigration inspections happen quick and easy at small local Maine airports without the usually roll down the window.

Approach the line with the stop sign. Put ‘er in park. To answer the question crossing the border about “anything to declare?” Not meaning to provide the chance to cleanse the soul and remove the guilt on whatever is troubling you. Keep that rolling around in your mind for another professional or higher power.

Small Private Operator Aircraft Fill A Hangar At A Maine Community Air Field.

The border crossing officer needs to know “do you have any fire arms, tobacco, plants or pets on board” and another inquiry are you leaving anything behind in the country you are leaving? Did you purchase anything that might require duty while traveling across the boundary border crossing?

More questions with you providing the answers to the guy or gal with the badge, wearing the bullet proof vest. “What is your country of origin” is the daily double question to determine citizenship as you hand over your passport and laminated birth certificates or driver’s licenses. That spell out your nationality and identity.

The paperwork that gets checked to see if you are who you say you are. If you have naughty or nice lately that maybe Santa connects with once a year to help in his background assessment. The letters from ex-wives and ex-husbands too get passed back and forth. About does the minor child have the other half’s permission to cross into another country or not is addressed.

Small airports in Maine attract commercial airliners that bring in the big wigs, the high muckie mucks as some dub them as high powered executive passengers.

Who monitor the local lumber mills, farm operations, manufacturing plants or are in office who hope to be elected to one. Air travel in Maine is alive and well on all the scales.

Fighting Forest Fires, Finding Lost Hikers. The Forestry Department Of Maine’s Helicopter Gets Lots Of Use.

Flying in to whatever is headquartered in this rural outpost that are small dots on the map. Way way up in this northeast, northwest thumb of the USA. Touching down on small airstrips around the interior of Maine. Not just the handful of city airports that most are familiar with and use.

When Loring Air Force Base was active in Limerstone, B-52’s flying below radar and hovering the hills tightly could scare the heck out of the local population of people and wildlife, farm animals alike. When the skies are filled with twinkling stars not blinking aircraft navigational lights now, moving around the air space is much easier for private plane owner Sky King and Penny. Who are looking over the list of Maine airports to utilize.

Local medical life flight aircraft use the small community airport too. Angel flights that help small town Mainer families that are between the rock and a hard place.

They need a place to land, pick up the precious cargo and lift off quickly because time is ticking. For a vital organ replacement or someone elected for a bed of life when their time is up. Sometimes it is a fixed

Old Muscle Cars, A Local Live Band Playing, Food Vendors, Aircraft Of All Kinds. You See It All At A Small Airport In Maine Fly In.

wing plane and not a helicopter that needs a stretch of runway to land and take off. Border patrol, DEA, others use my local airport on a daily basis. The state of Maine’s forestry aircraft criss-crosses the state that is 91 percent wooded.

Chasing down suspects happens in Maine, not just in the movies. And smokey bear in the sky gets thirsty for the aviation grade 100 octane fuel too as they monitor the highways from above as the eye in the sky. Timing the lead foot speeding motorist’s time as they advance too fast from this white line to the next measured with a simple stop watch. To determine “one atom twelve, we have a speeder. See the speeder down below in the yellow Yugo weaving from lane to lane on I-95 mile marker 286” (mic click).

Local chainsaws and higher performance snow sleds, race cars and even weed wackers enjoy the high test aviation fuel that the small local airfield offers as a local perk. At whatever airport in Maine you pick from the list or happen to live close to to enjoy the perks. Many snow birds use the local airports to get to their vacation homes. Some with pontoon and wheel combinations to make landing much more than just at the small list of Maine airports to consider. When touching down on a local runway that can vary depending on the day of sight seeing up above and down below.

Since deregulation of the airline industry, less subsidies are available to provide the helping hand to the community air fields. That threaten their existence and upkeep to keep them usable.

High Test, Fill ‘er Up With High Octane Aviation Grade Fuel The Planes, Helicopters Use!

Paving runways if they have tar. Lighting, communications. Providing the fuel, weather and flight navigation assistance. Maybe offering a hot cup of coffee, some fix based operator conversation. Re-fueling body and plane and grabbing a handful of tourist information flyers. Before zipping up the leather bomber jacket with the sheep skin collar up high on the neck. As the aviators trot back out to the airplane or helicopter with a flight plan in place. Climbing in whatever whirly bird big blade or silver winged contraption brought you down on the local Maine air field. Maybe an ultralight was the bird of choice that does not need much runway to up up and away.

National defense can help some strategically located Maine airports.

Local Houlton Maine Airport, History Is Rich In At The Local Army Air Force Base. Housing Prisoners Of War, Protecting Commerce.

Homeland security funds have been a blessing to my local KHUL Maine airport. That has a rich history like many airfields with assistance during past conflicts with other nations. Housing German prisoners of war that helped the local farmers and

foresters in their lumbering operations. Many of the old POW and army barracks used for soldiers and the prisoner captives from another land have been retooled for other peace time uses at their local base. Or sold off, hauled away to make creative housing in the small growing Maine communities. That re-worked the former barracks, parachute shed, kitchen mess galley, motor pool facility or whatever the structure into a clever housing transformation use.

Lend lease where local Maine potato and grain farmers used their tractors to haul aircraft by towing them across the border. To lend a hand before countries that were spiraling like cats finally dropped the shoe. And declared war on the other in the line of of force to preserve freedom of whoever was being held captive and against their will.

Maine’s many lakes and ponds get visits from aircraft wearing pontoons. They need fuel at marinas. The locals worry about a slip of vegetation that carries the dreaded milfoil vegatative infestation being deposited in their pristine, disease free waterfront jewel though.

The small Maine airports not manned around the clock like the ones with commercial airline schedules to maintain has a help yourself approach. Key the mic, watch the blue landing strip runway lights TA DA… come up like magic. As the private pilot hones in on the VOR radio signal to tractor beam the plane safely, slowly down out of the clouds. To safely land and then taxi over to the fuel pumps. As the pilot regroups and prepares for the next leg of the airline flight. Have seen my local airport in Maine used for cat delivery using a small commercial jet. Lots happens behind the scenes at your local airport when a community or region of Maine is lucky enough to have one.

Watch a video of a local fly in at Houlton International Airport held recently.

Horse drawn wagon rides, antique tractor towing the kiddies. Local vendor food too because aren’t you and I always hungry when sometime creates the smell of cooking onions? Dubbed Wings and Wheels, antique cars along with private personal aircraft all stopped into be part of the local celebration. That does a lot to share with the land lubber what exactly does go on out at the small Maine airport if a community is lucky enough to have one for economic development!

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North Street Houlton Maine 04730 USA

August 21, 2018
Maine, How Long Do You Need To See It All?

72 hours in Maine, when there is a clock ticking and you want to take a mini vacation in the Pine Tree State.

I have read stories and blog posts that try to sum up seeing the total experience of Maine in just 48 hours. You can’t do it justice in two days if you are planning to sample more than a fraction of what Maine offers.

Go Deeper, Where The Wildlife Live In Rural Maine.

It is like attempting to conquer Disney World with your kids in two hours and suggesting you can see it all in that short a time with all those long waiting lines. Let’s face it. Maine is one big honking state. Not in the Rhode Island or Delaware size weight class. Maine ranks 12th in the nation for water area with 4,523 square miles of recreational H2O. Maine is only 41st in population with 1.328,361 friendly souls and 39th for land size with 30,862 square miles of area.

And Maine is located up here in the upper right hand corner of the country. So far north some argue we should be in Canada because Maine is surrounded by the provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick! And just a step from all the Atlantic Maritime provinces like PEI, etc. In Maine it is like a two nation vacation if you can sneak away for more than just a couple days. When you clear the schedule for some unplugging to recharge rest and relaxation.

It’s is similar to hurry up fast food compared to slow cooked relaxed cuisine.

Haste makes wastes and you don’t get the full flavor when you make it a mad dash to Maine. Too little time makes it why bother. It’s vacationing at the same pace of your day to day hectic life chasing the dollar when you don’t allow for enough time to get beyond the usual expensive tourist traps barely into Maine. You can get some retail therapy at the Kittery outlets, maybe venture up as far as LL Bean and the other Freeport Maine shop til your drop commercial venues.

Reading A Book, Not A Care In The World! They Say Life Is A Beach. The Maine Waterfront!

Maine is outdoors, fresh air, clean water and no people when you head further north and up into her interior regions. You just don’t get that experience when you only go a short distance into the state. Maine is six plus miles tall. And to weave in and out around the nooks and crannies of US RT 1 takes time to discover the hidden jewel communities and natural attractions.

The best kept secret is further north, east, west where anyone trying to trot around Maine in 48 hours is going to miss out on so much. Head deeper, get on the less traveled areas to avoid the crowds, the traffic and where the average bear does not that makes it a sprint into Maine and then a flit back out.

Go beyond the sameness of franchises and water parks, go kart courses and just eating junk food in Maine.

Get Exercise While You Capture The Maine Eye Candy! Get Beyond The Southern Shopping Outlets And Franchised Fast Food Deeper Into Maine!

To the mom and pop operations of small business where your are treated like a friend, like family with small community members. That’s where you learn about the lay of the land, the history from a local and not a four color tourist information brochures that leaves so so much out and tries to sum it up in a catchy couple lines of copy.

Head to places like Gulf Hagas. Where you won’t see a Wendy’s, McDonalds or anything marked with a neon sign. Get some exercise hiking the trails around Mt Katahdin, Maine’s highest mountain of many others at Baxter State Park. That means driving a little more to get a much richer, deeper experience in the Pine Tree State.

Acadia National Park is one pretty 50 mile network of carriage trails, stone bridges and wildlife, lush natural vegetation. Bar Harbor and other Maine coastal towns get visits from the cruise ships where you get deeper into Maine but only for a couple hours or maybe an overnight while anchored off port.

To avoid the crowds that eat into whatever time you do have in Maine, consider your mini vacation trip around the beginning, the ends of the tourist season can works best.

Lighthouses in Maine are one big attraction any time of the year. Have you started your collection that gets added to for life each trek back to Maine?

When money is an object beyond the time you have to spend any, consider swapping where you live for a spot in Maine. I have a little mini vacation set for Halifax Nova Scotia soon and using Air bnb makes it more space for less money and the feeling what it would be like living in the community. Not at a motel next to a truck stop or airport or wall to wall noisy, busy commercial enterprises.

Take A Train Ride, Get Deeper Into Real Maine! Beyond The Tourist Traps And Shopping Outlets.

You pride yourself at the number of times you have been to the southern coastal regions of Maine. But have you ever been Downeast, to the northern section of our long waterfront along the Atlantic Ocean?

Consider Maine has sixteen counties and you want to see it all in time. Target a new section and don’t just barely make it into Maine. What you see a few miles after crossing the big green bridge on the southern tip of Maine is not the whole story. Maine is the way life should be but so so much is missing when you barely enter the state and call it good.

The travel magazines and blog posts, all the brochures touting where to eat, play and stay across Maine often show a map that cuts off the upper two thirds of the state or more.

The rest of the story as Paul Harvey would say, page two for the best times and less expensive memory making experiences happen deeper into the real Maine sadly not everyone gets to enjoy. If you relied on the maps, it would give the reader of the propaganda about Maine that nothing exists, nothing worthwhile is above the dots that only show up close to the state’s southern border. Hope this Maine blog post on vacation tips is helpful!

And it is not just summer vacation for your window of opportunity to sample Maine. Be a fall hunter, leaf peaker for the brilliant colors. Bring your snow skis to Maine for cross country or down hill adventures. Hike bike, camp in Maine. Climb in a rubber raft on the Penobscot, Kennebec, Dead Rivers. To navigate through some water rapids and to dine on wild rice and river cooked food that improves the outdoor taste. Don’t just shop for trinkets and waste what time you have being a parking lot shark looking for the best spot and shopping til you drop while in Maine.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

July 18, 2018
Life In A Small Town Maine Community.

The life in a small town Maine community is more connected, down to Earth, real.

What is important is the other people in the local area. Every individual who hangs his or her hat in the small Maine town has lots of tasks living where there are less people to fill the community needs. You see it especially during a 4th of July celebration. Because everyone rallies to put on an event to be proud of that is home grown and local.

Small Maine Towns Are Closer To The Wildlife, The Recreation Trails. Less People, More Space, Clear Air, Fresh Water Make It Unspoiled Special!

Small Maine towns are safe, there is so much to get involved in that you best pace yourself. The small Maine town local citizens are aware of how lucky they are every trip to a city. Sure it’s fun to hit a Boston Red Sox game. But to return to small town living without the traffic, the round the clock sounds of emergency responders is a wonderful relief.

Small Maine towns are affordable, have a unique collection of individuals who really care about the local area.

They are invested and work the events beyond just the 4th of July. Everyone traveling to Maine knows low cost vacations are possible. You are able to relax when worry about crime or too many people causing all the slow or not moving traffic are removed from your field of vision. You can ease up and feel the tension removed when you make it to one of the hundreds and hundreds of small Maine towns to rest and relax.

Not Losing Old Ways Of Doing Things. Maine Is The Blend Of Old And New. The Pace Slow Enough For Pleasure Horses For Example. Or Working Ones Too.

Closer to Mother Nature. living on a Maine lake, spending time at a wood’s camp. Getting to know Jack Frost, Old Man Winter. Many get the bug to stay in Maine longer than just one week a year the more exposures to Vacationland they log on their life journey to discover and explore new regions.

The thought of moving, relocatng to Maine becomes a strong one when the contrast from city living is stacked up against small town living. So much is missing when all the people of a large population are removed. The lack of lots of money to fund events means the local citizenry has to belly up to the bar and get creative to pull off the year after year calendar of events small Maine towns are famous for creating and sustaining.

In small Maine towns, you get to know the other people in them because of working together for the common good.

From all the volunteering on the non profit projects that need attention in small Maine communities you get to know each other pretty closely. Because working together on the many events binds the population tighter. Benefit suppers to help

Traffic Is Not Usually This Heavy Or Aggressive Dog Eat Dog in Small Maine Towns.

show you collectively care when a family is struggling makes it all about others. And your turn to reward others when you get back on your feet is a strong emotion because you are blown away at the level of caring that is given to those between a rock and a hard place.

Everyone kind of knows each other too as time marches on because of the volunteering to serve the community needs.

So when you see a pick up parked beside the road, you stop to make sure everyone is all right. That nothing is needed by the person you are used to seeing behind the wheel. You stop and go back. If the owner is elderly, you make special concessions when you meet them on the road. They might not be the best driver on the highway but not because they are texting or drinking. But old age can dull the reflexes a tad. Can make the vision or depth perception of the peepers a little less sharp. We look out for each other in small Maine towns.

So when you consider how do small Maine town’s people entertain themselves, don’t feel sorry for us because there are not huge sprawling malls to walk around to kill time or perform some retail therapy. They might be part of a 100 person community band. It is not always coming to the rescue of a local family in their time of extreme need. Often the attention is splashed on, poured into kid events. Realize the behind the scenes are the local events they work on and how rewarding being on the front lines and in the trenches of community activities really is. Maine is the way life should be and the fresh air, brighter stars, clean water and less people all help serve up a completely different life experience.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com | MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

July 3, 2018