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  • Hit The Express Lane | Shopping For Things Maine Is Famous For?

    Eight items to help break the ice for someone not so familiar with Maine.

    From someone who lives here and not bits and pieces from the grapevine from many folks that don’t. Who have never crossed up and around the bend on the big green bridge at the southern tip of Maine.

    Vacationland, it has that stamped on the license plates for a reasons. Lots to do when you are off work. Not chasing the dollar, not watching the clock.

    Maine Small Town Living.
    Down Town Maine Small Town Celebrations, Festivals. Home Grown Tasty, Special, Memorable.

    The fun stuff is often a slightly different list than the full time Mainer would highlight in the top crazy eight.

    Of what makes them feel connected, intimately part of the small town rural fabric. But that is a blog post for another day. From a different lens, using an approach from the local perspective peering out. Not the other way around with Maine under the Google microscope.

    So number one, the Maine food.

    Someone comes around to making the discussion tasty. Maine food. Yes, there is lobster in this link. With some Maine potatoes, lots of other grown close to home vegetable produce and fruits, farm products. Ever thought about starting a micro farm in Maine?

    Number two, Maine lighthouses. The experience any seasons is incredible. Visit the same one a different time of the year and see what happens. Something new, different yet more of the same attraction all rolled up into one ball of yarn.

    Maine Outdoor Beauty Walking, Talking, Photo Shooting.
    Do You Have This Kind Of Natural Beauty Where You Live Now?

    Johnny, trot in number three. Maine mountains. Hike them, ski them. Preserve them. Start your collection of big, small.

    Do them all and then start over during your life trail adventure. Add white stuff, snow powder coat your mountain and trails.

    See what happens to your Maine mountain. Especially during a Cadillac Mountain sunrise. An afternoon jaunt on Baxter’s Mount “K” Knife’s Edge.

    Life is (wait for it, then loud groan) a beach. Maine beaches. Scribble a number “4” on the next list item of tell me about Maine. To know what to expect and like a moth around a night time discussion porch light, zero in on efficiently. During your brief visit to sample ME.

    Five. Like the Seasame Street jingle about how many is five.

    Sticks in your head. Pass the number five helping of Maine blueberries.

    Maine moose. That is number six on what Maine is all about using one word descriptions. And to highlight make sure you see one. Just not late at night. The Maine moose or black bear, white tail deer all make lousy hood ornaments.

    Maine Is Small Towns, Working Together.
    Peace At The Beginning, End Of The Day In Maine.

    When you find you look down. Find yourself tooling along at double nickels on the side road.

    Clipping, covering ground like the Hot Rod Lincoln from Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen. Doing seventy five clicks an hour on the I-95 highway ribbon.

    Hit a state park in Maine for camping, cooking on an open fire. Sleeping in a snug insulated bag or slung in a hammock. Number seven on the quick check list is Maine state parks.

    Like Baxter,  Aroostook, all the other State Parks.That must be on your list of things to do and see in Maine.

    And the Acadia National Park in MDI. One of the most visit of the New England parks. But maybe you want less traveled, out of the lime light and Maine is famous for those nooks and crannies. Ask a local. They might share a few of the gps coordinates.

    Shopping is number eight for Maine stops to make.

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

    Shop til you drop at your outlets, LL Bean, Reny’s, Marden’s or peruse the latest Uncle Henry’s. For a bargain. Mainers are frugal not cheap. Love to horse trade and barter. Services exchanges not green backs.

    We could add Maine loons and go on and on forever. Much of it around recreational water. Inland and coastal kind.

    But.

    The people of Maine are the rest of the numbers.

    At the end of the tourist day. Covers it in acres. For the eight, nine, ten and beyond continuation. That rockets roaring skyward. Going off the green sweep screen chart. Maine is nothing without it’s hardworking, friendly, family first people. Get to know them.

    Meet the locals in Maine, learn the wisdom of the way life should be. And is in Maine. The place with the place, unfiltered, all natural.

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

    207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

    MOOERS REALTY 69 North Street Houlton ME 04730

     

  • 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.

    Maine Island In Foggy, Mist.
    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.

    Maine Lake Sunset Photo
    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.

    Maine Small Town Living, Simpler Approach.
    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 Sea Coast Light House Photo
    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.

    Maine Map
    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