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WARNING: Over Loaded Maine Blog Information Guide Post Ahead.

Get Your Bearings Due North East, To Maine

Maine, so much to love, so much to share in a blog post about the state.

If you had never been to Maine, had not bumped in to many people that had either. That would be a lot of empty shelves in the mental library on the topic Maine. This blog post is to start filling those shelves, to build your knowledge base.

For starters, Maine climate, topography, weather. One big, varied state, so the Maine outdoor recreational options are vast, varied. Maine is divided in to eight tourism, camping regions.

Maine welcomes you whether you are after some of the 3500 miles of rock bound coastal islands, to see bobbing lobster, sailing boats or cruise ships.

Or to hike up Baxter State Park’s Mt Katahdin. Or to take a dip, wet your line, float your boat to sample a few of our 6000 beautiful lakes, rivers, streams and ponds. But remember, if you are coming to Maine, better learn how to wave, be friendly. Mainers are down to earth, hardworking, genuine, fiercely family, church and community centered. Maine people truely have their heads screwed on straight. Respect the natural beauty that Vacationland is blessed with all four seasons.

The beauty of Maine, photos play out like face cards when you are holding the right hand. This Maine farmer collecting antique farm tractor video shows you what drives us, how we are built.

And the fun in Maine is outdoors, any season.

Winter not a time to hibernate or park it on a couch, stay inside and waste any of it. Maine down hill, cross country skiing and snowmobiling are just a few winter recreation options.

Airports in Maine list. How ever you get here, from air, land, the sea, wandering in to the powerful State Of Maine website means you’ll come out way way more knowledgeable. Your idea of fun may be chasing a Maine golf course white ball at 130 link options. Or Maine snowsledding, maybe Maine skiing, or Maine whitewater boat rafting with a noisy load of wet family, friends.

Or if you settle down, buy a Maine farm land, you will want to tap in to the knowledge base at the MOFGA group. If hunting and fishing in Maine is the attraction, you won’t be disappointed either. Can’t go wrong hitting one of many Maine state fairs to really meet, talk with the people, to sample the many region’s local flavor, the infectious community spirit.

Did you know Maine has sixteen counties, seven million acres of forest and is 91% wooded?

Other Maine state statistics, information highlights. Did you realize Eastport Maine’s West Quoddy Head Lighthouse is the first place in the US to get splashed, hit with the nation’s morning sun? There are over 60 Maine lighthouses.

Did you know Maine’s Allagash Wilderness Waterway is 92 miles long? That you can take a open carriage horse ride around Acadia National Park in Bar Harbor Maine, the only National park in New England? Did you know approximately 40 million pounds of Maine lobsters (nearly 90 percent) supply the nation? Or that Aroostook County, the state’s largest is bigger than the combined size of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined?

Told you, warned you Me In Maine blog reader, follower that this was an oversized, big blog post jammed packed with information about Vacationland land. Thanks for stopping in!

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

December 24, 2011
Questions Often Asked About Maine When You Don’t Live Here.

Vacationland Information, What Living In Maine Is All About, Like.

You’ve never been to Maine but have heard good things about the state.

But you have burning questions, concerns, topics needing addressing. Ok (stepping up to the podium) I’m game. In fact, we get asked many questions in the course of our work as a Maine real estate broker every day. Heck we did a video for the Maine FAQ common ones.

But besides questions about the weather, crime, if we have any gangs (no, thank you) the inquirers are like an explorer hungry, thirsty for information.

Over and over the same why is Maine real estate priced so low, how far are you from Boston, New York, Saturn and tell me about your schools, recreation, healthcare, churches.

It runs the A to Z and we produce many other videos to handle those questions.

Talking to the person posing the Maine questions works better than just tapping out electrons to form words. Like you are grazing on right now as you pair of eyeballs do the typewriter scan like eating corn, back and forth. With Maine videos, you can hear the blogger’s voice. See his facial expressions. Have some audio visuals packaged in and to just sit there.

Scope out our Maine community videos when you have some time if you are serious about learning all I can share about life in Vacationland. Maine, one super place and the longer I listen to the questions coming from outside, the more I know life here is very special.

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

January 15, 2011
You Meet Someone Who’s Never Been To Maine.. Describe The Place.

Cultures, Nationalities Make Maine Unique, Special, One Of A Kind.

Mainers Know Who They Are, Where They Live And Feel Like The Luckiest, Blessed People On Earth. And They Are.

You’re on a game show, at a local diner out of state, filling your car with gas on a trip, and the question get raised..”Maine, what’s it like?”

In this blog post to hit all the highlights is hard. But still as a Maine blogger proud of my state, and ready to toot the horn about it’s people and the way of life and four season outdoor beauty. Here goes anyway.

One reason I have to make a stab at being in the “spotlight on Maine” is because so little about the state is out there on line or very accurate.

If someone moves to the southern tip of Maine and is from the west coast. And suddenly put on camera as a talking head for the place called Maine. More often than not, other than the coast, the rest of Maine is left out is the sound bite.

Like Columbus felt when talk of the world being flat came up at card games, the local livery stable or on board a ship sailing to the unknown corners of the new world. Maine’s like that. Pretty much a secret.

Maine for starters is one big state, and here is a quick ME geography, history, facts, figures house keeping run down from A-Z for up here in the right hand corner of the country.

And for images, rather than worlds scope out this eyeball candy Maine photo, image site. Ok, Ok, Here is a splash on Maine lighthouses too. Happy? Maine is so much more than lobsters, lighthouses, blueberries and potatoes.

Maine people are resilent, know who they are, don’t need life coaches or extensive couch therapy or mood elevators to enjoy life. Mainers are responsible, family oriented, friendly, neighborly, community proud with a ferocity. The outdoor four seasons of Maine is where the answers to life’s mysteries, complexities, pressures are found. The Maine forests, Baxter’s Mt Katahdin and 6000 lakes, rivers know the meaning of patience, time. We Mainers protect what God gave us to be good stewards with, to pass on to our kids.

Like To Kayak Or Want A Big Motor On Your Boat Or Jet Ski?

Maine is coming to terms with lower wages, smaller population centers.

But that makes us more resourceful, stronger volunteers, closer local citizens. Home grown, helping each other, more aware of the priorieties in life. No chip on our shoulder, or entitlement attitude or trying to short cut on any road to riches in Maine. Money to impress people? You won’t find that “look who I am attitude, what I have” attitude game played here. No pecking order, no steerage mentality of anyone being any better or worse than anyone else. We accept people, want the same done in return.

It’s how we roll in Maine.

Grange Hall In Maine Repurposed Into A Home.

Keep it simple, be helpful, make it real. Maine.

We don’t la-de-da as the Van Morrison song croones. Who we are is who you see. Whether talking one on one playing horseshoes or cribbage or at a large municipal town hall, grange bean supper or at a sporting event.

Jumper cables ready in the car or pickup and ready to stop, give you a hand. Make sure you are okay or need a lift somewhere, to call someone. To help you out. Mainer’s need each other but are self contained at the same time.

This small town Houlton Maine Meduxnekeag Canoe race video shows you how we interact with mutual respect, courtesy, friendliness, a mixture of gratitude in this case that spring is here. That means getting out on the water, a Maine river. This year’s canoe kayak race by the way is May 1st, so spread the word will you?

Canoe River Race In Maine, Been Paddling Down One Of The Many River Races On The Circuit?

Growing Without Sprays, Chemicals. Organic Maine Homesteading Happens Around Maine!

Or this Maine winter ski video shows you winter snow is not a dirty word.

Evidence that we thrive on cobalt blue skies, carving down a hill under a bright sun gaining strength signaling that spring is approaching. So when someone asks “what’s Maine like?” if you can only use one word answers, you could do it. If you had lived for awhile to see how different it is from most places.

To describe Maine one word at a time, I would pick “grateful”, “family”, “industrious,” “hardworking,” “resourceful,” “aware,” “outdoors,” “recreation,” “simple,” “grounded,” “clean,” “healthy,” “friendly”, “neighborly”,”unique.”

Fish Fresh From The Maine Coastal Sea. Barnacle Billy’s Crew Ham It Up For Tourists.

Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservation Season 6, Episode 12 television food/travel show covered Maine in broad brush fashion on a recent installment.

But at least with the help of a Milo Maine camera man, Zach Zamboni for a local perspective. Scope out a Maine Bourdain show video clip. It is so refreshing to have more than the Maine coastal areas highlighted, “pressed” by someone as the local talking head who not even raised here. With no childhood, family, local community perspective to really draw from. No real history, or life long experience with this place, state of mind we call Maine.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

April 18, 2010