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  • Maine, Start Dreaming In Blue, Green.

    Maine's Oceanfront Jewel Harbor Towns Are Not A Secret Any More.
    Boats Floating Along The Maine Coast In The Lincolnville Beach Area.

    Maine offers the natural setting folks bombarded with negativity, too much bad news need.

    A steady diet of expensive city living coupled with non stop crime news, grid lock traffic makes you numb. It’s not healthy. It’s not like that in Maine.

    But the reality is eight out of ten people live in a city, urban area. With all the development, all those wall to wall people, forget enjoying 2500 lakes and ponds. You find that in Maine, but it is sadly missing in population centers.

    People need hope, faith and the despair, hectic and dangerous living in the bright lights, big city are not where you foster, find that.

    Simple living demands one by one removal of the barriers that keep you from achieving it.

    And to make sure nothing is added to your life no matter what age you find yourself at that will distract or threaten that simple by choice lifestyle.

    This week I made the annual pilgrimage to the state Maine REALTOR convention. The venue this year in Rockland at the Samoset. The drive down US Rt 1 in early fall offers a part of Maine tied to the ocean. Fishing, lumber, farming and tourism are the big mainstays to the Maine economy.

    Stopping to capture an image overlooking ocean water in Lincolnville Maine to share on this blog post made me appreciate living in Vacationland. Everything you need is in this state, so many areas to explore. So many neat folks to meet, share experiences with in Maine.

    Thought I would swing in to Bangor Maine to sample a sandwich from Gambino’s on Hammond Street and asked for a Nightmare sub. The clerk smiled and said “you haven’t been here for awhile have you?” I told him at least once a year I do the same request but am remembering when the same eatery was Napoli Pizza and Sub. They called it a Nightmare and the clerk perked up. Said “oh you mean a Godfather, number 22”. That’s what they call it now, number 22 on the wall.

    Learned a lot at the REALTOR seminar in Rockland Maine and networked with old friends in the same profession, industry. But glad to be home.

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com

  • Maine WordPress Blog, Read All About It. Bangor ME Music Festival.

    Maine Is Vacationland. Find Out Why.
    American Folk Festival, Bangor ME. One More Reasons To Travel, Vacation In Maine.

    Every year for the last ten, the American Folk Festival transforms Bangor Maine in Penobscot County into the place to be for live music.

    All types of music, song, dance from around the world. Taking center stage, more than one like clockwork. One of the four stages set up, ready to crowd around by the Bangor Maine waterfront. As the talent in a wide array of musical styles perform for anyone, all ages in Bangor Maine August 26, 27, 28. Check out the schedule for the 2011 American Folk Festival in Bangor Maine.

    If summer has flown by and you can not put your finger on the highlight of doing something not so ho hum, routine, maybe a trip to Maine is just the ticket. Go see the nation’s finest performing groups sharing the traditional arts of their region, culture and heritage. With you in the crowd watching, taking in 4 stages of music. Enjoying dance, traditional craft demonstrations and exhibits.

    There is a children’s area with activities for the whole family so no one gets left out. Plus, what’s that other sound…the one down low, inside?

    Oh, your stomach is talking, singing for something out of the ordinary and definitely not fast food, drive through dining fare.

    Enjoy dozens of food vendors offering ethnic food, regional specialties and traditional festival favorites. Sample them all over the three day Maine musical event.

    Don’t forget the marketplace offering unique, handcrafted items and “Taste of Maine” treats for sale either. A taste of Maine comes with the American Folk Festival experience. Everything is built around the performers, meet the American Folk Festival entertainers, musicians on your Vacation trip to Bangor Maine.

    Festivals and events are an important driver of Maine tourism activity in a growing number of communities in Vacationland.

    The Portland Sidewalk Art Festival, American Folk Festival in Bangor, Yarmouth Clam Festival, Fort Fairfield’s Potato Feast and Rockland Lobster Festival are a few.

    Among some of the better-known events that take place every year in Maine. Get to Maine, quick as you can, whenever you can to sample some of the fun, meet the people, experience the four season natural beauty.

    Maine, each and every vehicle license plate spells it out plainly, in one word that says it all. Vacationland. Get here for the American Folk Festival in Bangor Maine.

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com

  • Crusty, A Little Obstinate Sometimes Way Maine Protrayed.

    Maine Is Four Season Outdoor Living, Down To Earth People.
    Explore, Discover, Sample Some Of All Maine Has To Offer.

    You know the joke about an out of stater lost along the coast of Maine asking a local how do you get to (fill in, pick the ME location).

    And after a long pause, dead pan expression, the guy in the overalls, piece of hay dangling out of the side of his mouth drawls after much thought “Chummy, you can not get there from HERE-ahhh”.

    For someone on a cruise ship parked off the Maine coast for a night or maybe only a few hours to come ashore, pick up some knick knacks, a t-shirt and tender back to the big boat before it leaves harbor, this coastal experience may be all she wrote. And the rest of what is Maine is like is figured, supposed to be more of the same. You need to return for another visit. Many treks to the Maine inland.

    Maine is a big state, sixteen counties worth. The people are hardworking, God fearing, family and local community oriented, driven, passionate. Would do anything for you, help you out. But as far as playing games, being highly political and manipulative, Mainers are not. They don’t jerk people around, hold hidden agendas as a rule. What you see is who they are. All the time. Day in, day out.

    The life here in Maine is simple. The people however are not. They have their feet on the ground.

    Their heads not in the clouds and there is one intense yet peaceful awareness of all the drop dead gorgeous Maine surroundings.

    And each and everyone of us taught to respect it, other people’s opinions too. With the same expected in return. A fair trade.

    Anthony Boudain’s “No Reservations” globe trotting local food, spirits with a little middle age philosophy wantonly thrown in to make it all well rounded, entertaining did a show on Maine. And in it, the distinction of perceptions depending on where you live in Maine was there in living color.
    Backed up by naturally captured audio starting from a Milo resident’s perspective, that the folks in Portland Maine are a little snobbish.

    And if you asked folks on that end of the Pine Tree State, depending on the day, you might get a response that those north of Bangor are a little hickish. One quote in the show from a recent transplant from Vermont indicated folks way up north are 200 and 300 years behind the times. Ouch. From an expert who had never been north of where the Maine turnpike stops collecting quarters. Setting travelers loose to speed up the rest of Interstate 95 to where it connects to the Trans Canadian highway in my home town of Houlton Maine.

    Come see for yourself, sample the areas, meet all the people. Stay, visit long enough to draw your own conclusions and chew the fat with the locals of Maine. Fill up with local naturally grown, raised food and take in the jaw dropping out of this world scenery. Maine, too pretty not to be shared. The secret is out about Vacationland. Get here quick as you can. Experience our refreshing tell it like it is candor, without the spin, games.

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com

  • When You Live In Maine, You Are So Spoiled.

    Simple Outdoor Fun, Recreation All Four Seasons.
    Maine, Four Seasons, Not One We Are Not Outdoors.

    Vacationland is what is stamped on the bottom of every Maine license plate and yes we are so spoiled to live in a four season outdoor paradise.

    Most Mainers are pretty darn excited, grateful to be so close to natural unspoiled resources. But it is easy to fall in to a false security, lull of it must be this way everywhere. NOoooooo. It is not.

    If I head a mile and half in any direction from my intown home, I am in the country.

    No wall to wall people, no need for a taser or to worry about my property, my personal security.

    People wave at each other, help each other out. Are friendly. Pitch in and volunteer.

    Folks that live in Maine has lives with purpose. They volunteer. Pick the passions they love and year after year you can count on them to put their shoulder in to making local community events happen. Everyone benefits. And it causes other individuals to think what they should step up and do. To look and find a place in the local Maine community for them to give back.

    The volunteers raise their kids to do the same in Maine, or wherever they move to. If you live out of state, you would be hard pressed to find a harder working individual than someone that grew up in Maine.

    Lazy is not a word used to described 99% of Mainers. And if someone is, that is the worse opinion you could have of someone.

    Can over look a lot, but not lazy.

    No reason to be a bump on a log and just take take take. Give back to the area you live to make it a better place because you live, work and play there.

    Helpful links to lots of places to have fun in Maine year round.

    Maine, big state, friendlier people, wide open space.

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com

  • Maine, Only The Most Natural Ingredients.

    Camping In Maine, Simple Outdoor Recreation.
    Camping In Maine, Getting Some Time Alone.

    Maine, the recreation here is not like a man made Space Mountain, or anything resembling the Las Vegas strip.

    It’s usually one of four colors. Blue, green, brown, white. During the fall foliage explosion of colors tons of reds, yellows, oranges too. Maybe the attraction to Maine it is real. All the wildlife, the simple, refreshing, spacious feeling all around you.

    In a day and age where you wonder about what you read in the newspaper, hear on line, see on the tube all quoted as gospel. Where spin and marketing, advertising gets awards. Is an art form. The average Joe and Jane is being bombarded with signals, messages to buy this, try that and be all you can be.

    So when a Maine lake is pictured or you watch a video clip with the morning steam rising off it with the sound of a loon in the distance, it gets your attention.

    Especially as the sun comes up and a small motor boat droans, heads out in to the largest part of the waterfront.

    The setting hits you deeply. Because it’s real, no paid actors, no special set built. Just Maine pure and simple. No one puts on airs, everyone is down to earth.

    Maybe less people helps and makes those that are here in Maine more connected, special. You get to know the folks in a small Maine town working on church bean suppers, volunteering for local canoe races, coaching little league or a minor hockey team.

    The distance away from large sprawling urban areas may also help insulate, protect, preserve Vacationland.

    The folks that visit Maine are looking the abundance of four season outdoor recreation. Fewer, moit more people. They get enough up close and personal with all the people in traffic, gangs, the increasing crime.They need a week’s reprieve from all that. Need Maine for all it offers, her abundance of natural resources that is everywhere you look.

    Here are some images of Maine. Some Maine local community videos. Follow our other Maine blogs. Check out the 2200 posts on Active Rain’s blog platform too. Get to know Maine up close and personal. Come walk the wood lots, sample the rock bound coast line, kayak a lake or river. Climb up a mountain or ski down one. Your heart has been here for a long long time if you are being honest right? Help the rest of your major body part catch up. Help them find their way to Maine.

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com

  • Filters, Lenses, Layers And Purple Ears.

    The People With Purple Ears For Your News Gathering, Opinions On Other People Is A Dangerous Place To Feed.
    Maine Birds Hungry For The Good Stuff, Mom Out For Take Out.

    No man is an island, although Maine has a slew of them off the rock bound rugged coast line.

    And out in the middle of many of our 6000 lakes. In my job as a Maine real estate broker, I find many relocating or retiring buyers often cite getting away from people as the primary goal of the move. They enjoy the low prices of Maine real estate. But it is the space, the ability to get away from wall to wall people that is the largest carrot being south, chased, causing the move part or full time.

    It is not that the folks that share this philosophy are anti social. Many are the most creative, interesting people you could ever hope to meet and learn from, share stories with.

    But it is just where they used to live, it was becoming a constant case of who am I bothering today?

    Or who is going to be in my face and irritating me today thinking, situation. Whether in grid lock traffic, worrying about crime and gangs, or just not feeling like you can ever get away to your own personal space place. New Jersey has 1000 people per square mile, Maine has 11 in that same area where I live. Alaska has one so harder to bother someone who is not right on top of you.

    The older I get, the more I enjoy blunt, outspoken say it like it is people. No punches pulled, cut to the chase about what they are thinking. Nothing held in. I don’t react to them as rude, insensitive. Just keeps it simple when they plainly state what they want, hope for in situations, conversations. I respect that. But some would not. Saying they have no right, or well, I never and suddenly getting in to a huff, borderline snarky starting to happen. With lips curled and an “I’ll show them” vigor and borderline hatred brewing. Taking it way way too personal.

    Misunderstandings happen from missing information, something left out that is vital, key. Or because of what we see, hear based on earlier life experiences recalled by others with versions that may not be close to the truth. Example, please pass the pepper could be interpreted from the other side of the table as “don’t talk to me in that tone of voice and demanding tone”. All I asked for was the pepper, please, when you get to it.

    Expecting others to be twins, feel the same about life, events, other people in it is unrealistic.

    And frankly boring, narrow, limited. Different opinions are healthy and how we grow.

    And if you carry deep insecurities from something lacking as a kid like not being hugged enough, affirmed that you do have value rather than what did you do wrong now, it filters how you see, react to others. If you were abused, or spoiled or neglected, and learned behaviors from your parents like green eyed jealousy, hoity toity arrogance or just garden variety lack of personal responsiblity when things go hay wire, that adds another lense or two. To the process between the ears of how do you see the reality of day to day with all the colorful people we have in it.

    Especially the people with purple ears, that get all their news, do their summing people and events up with what they hear through the grapevine.

    Which sometimes is pretty darn accurate or hopelessly wrong from the get go.

    In Maine you can do your own thinking, people respect others opinions but it starts with your own personal journey to be a better person. One who contributes to society, has purpose in the local community volunteering from as many worthwhile causes as possible to make a difference. Not for attention but because everything in a small Maine down is home grown not store bought. I don’t take another person’s opinion on what kind of place is that new diner that just opened up with the Maine seafood? I try the fried or steamed clams and let my own stomach decide if it is worth a return visit but reserving judgement until the honeymoon newness is over and all the wrinkles, bugs are out of the operation and it’s running smoothly.

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com