Ever think what would it be like living on a island in Maine?
Yes the hidden small out to sea community is part of the state of Maine.
Maine Rock Bound Coastline, Islands. ‘Hole “Nother Expericence.
But a lot like your own country. One surrounded by water and just off the Maine shoreline. Or further out to sea. Monhegan Island is a place on the travel plans. Before I go, it’s wise to bone up and get ready with a knowledge of the history, the sample the community flavor.
So from days years ago as a broadcast journalist, in an earlier life as a young grass hopper, what can I share about Monhegan Island?
The island of Monhegan, a plantation in the Gulf of Maine. About ten to twelves miles off the mainland, depending on your news source. The Maine island is part of Lincoln County.
Monhegan has a shadow island of Manana that is often in the same tourism write up information. The name is Abenaki language meaning “out to sea island”. It chews up about 55 to 70 minutes for the ferry ride out and back to Monhegan Island. Like most of living in Maine, it depends on the weather.
Here is a video for from just 5 days ago that popped up online as I start the plans to visit Monhegan Island soon.
Monhegan’s Island Inn adds a lot of information to anyone toying with a stay there.
They remind that power is generated locally, no ten mile extension cord from the mainland. So hair dryers, air conditioners, mini fridge in your room or anything that is a big power hog. None of that are in your stay at the Monhegan Island Inn.
It’s let everything air dry and take your time using Mother Nature.
You look way way better in that wind swept dried slowly anyway right? Your hair does not have to be perfect in the sea breeze. No one to impress with only 64 full time year rounders on the Maine island. That population swells to 400 as the red colored temperature rises in the glass tube. But those snowbirds retreat quickly as the temperature sinks, goes the other way.
Monhegan Island is a walking island scare larger than a square mile.
Fishing, tourism are the main income source for the Monhegan Island economy. Agriculture is encouraged and potatoes have been raised on the island that measures about 1000 acres more or less.
What’s Going On? Who’s Selling What? Everything You Need To Know On Monhegan Island.
You can text, make a cell call but the Internet is no robust beyond the basics. I won’t be shooting a video and trying to upload the render to the clouds above Monhegan Island on the trip there.
Here’s a video for the Island Inn Monhegan Maine.
Who hungers, thirsts for a life experience on a Maine island? Anyone seeking one of simplicity, self sufficiency. That seems to enjoy their own company. Or just a small circle of friends sans the crowd setting, paid parking and traffic. It’s use your feet, peddle power tooling around Monhegan Island. Leave whatever you drive parked back on the mainland.
Lot of seagull chatter dubbed in, but no talking, just neat visuals to swallow from the Island Inn Monhegan Maine video.
Henry Trefethren of Kittery Maine for three hundred pounds on February 6, 1790 purchased Monhegan Island.
He wanted to buy it as early as back on October 2, 1777 from Benjamin Bickford. Not sure if the little skirmish with the Red Coats across the pond was the cause for delay or not.
When Mr Bickford bought Monhegan Island in 1770 there was a lone residence, a single barn.
The original Henry Trefethren Homestead dubbed “The Red House” is parked on rocks at middle beach (Swim Beach). Ruth Grant Faller produced a fine book that one by one outlines all the houses on Monhegan Island with imagery, descriptions, the family connection history.
Stay tuned faithful Me In Maine blog post readers. I will be sure to take a few cameras in the days ahead. Maybe the drone if weather and wind allows to capture more details up close and personal from Monhegan Island Maine.
Maine small towns are proud of their unique area of the state. Tourism in Maine accounts for about 6.4% percent of the state’s economy. I know, that low a figure surprised me too. Or made me think we could bump it up to way more Maine tourists traveling across the big green bridge.
All this space, no crime, no traffic. Plenty of eye candy. But still the tourism dollar numbers are impressive. Tourists pump over 8.6 billion dollars a year into the local Maine economy. One out of seven Maine jobs are tourism related. Maine tourism creates 151,000 plus employment opportunities to bring home the bacon.
Welcome To Maine. How About A Super Sized Ice Cream Cone Treat?
The towns in Maine most memorable are the ones where the entire population wears an ambassador hat.
Putting on a genuine smile. Greeting the day with a healthy attitude of wanting to be helpful. Rolling out the red carpet welcome mat means putting yourself in the shoes of a tourist.
Really friendly, warm and helpful is something any new to your area visitor never forgets.
Returning trips to the small Maine town happen with frequency when the folks you bump into on vacation go all out to be the best tour guides.
The Maine folks you meet from the hospitality industry in the local lodging and dining sector have to provide first class service.
Can’t be hit or miss or depending on which way the wind happens to be blowing casual. Sincere, empathetic, sensitive to help the brand new tourist visitor have a quality stay in Maine.
Like any vacation, a brand new to your area traveler wants to explore, sample the local home grown food, to tap into the recreation. Maybe to just be left alone and veg. And usually to rest up from the very hectic week before they tidy up all the business affairs. For the pack the pack and ready or not here I go.
Take the vacation in Maine.
Life will not end if you take a break to unplug, recharge and change the scenery and routine you practice day and night on the hamster wheel right?
Maine, The Way Life Should Be. One Big State, Lots Of Special Hidden Areas To Discover.
You and I travel for the memories, the sights in a different setting. To try out the new culture that is not the same old same old.
Change of pace and to shake up the drill to shake off the cobwebs. To see how the rest of the World lives and what they do for downtime fun. Family vacations for couples on a budget with young children are taught travel is part of life.
Maine vacations.
Great exercise too if you like to walk, hike, bike, climb, paddle, sail or whatever mode of transportation.
But how to do a Maine vacation cheaply requires discipline and a strict budget.
And asking for help from the local Maine population that live in this section of Vacationland to guide your spending and to learn what there is to do for fun.
Saving your everyday spending dollars frugally frees up the money. The green stuff earmarked for a Maine vacation.
Feed back to the Maine hospitality service providers is critical. To learn what your customers liked on vacation and what was missing only helps shape better future stays for small Maine town travelers.
Plus your travel taps into lots of other service providers. You want to hear what they are doing right or wrong so you can adjust the dials for better performance. According to Maine government officials, state annual tourism visits show a 10 percent increase.
Nightly lodging stays in Maine are up 18 percent.
The Crown Jewels And Europe Jewel Treasures.
What do people want to do for fun, what do they consider entertainment?
Go to a local museum? Farmers markets, paddling a kayak on a bottle smooth Maine lake? To hike the trails up Baxter State park or ride a bike on miles of roads spanned by classic stone bridges around Acadia? To admire the four season space not crowded with wall to wall tourists? Maine is different than Disney Land or Cony Island, Las Vegas, most other places.
Why not own your Maine vacation property spot and possible rent it out to others with a careful background check and healthy deposits taken?
Sitting around an open fire at a Maine waterfront setting.
Enjoying a hot or cold beverage on an open porch watching Maine wildlife. Too slow paced and not action packed enough for you? Maine’s unspoiled four season setting make it low or no cost which only enhances a stay in Vacationland. Try paddling through the river rapids on the Penobscot, Dead, Kennebec Rivers for some adventure.
Camp Fires In Maine. The Circle Of Chairs For Outdoor Group Therapy.
What’s the weather forecast and being ready to pivot to a plan “B” and “C” if needed.
Not jamming so much into the Maine vacation schedule so whoever you are sharing it with does not revolt. grumble or worse mutiny.
Vacationing 101… everyone does it differently but a little help from local Mainers to suggest what should be on the itinerary is helpful.
Making it worth the money and time spent to vacation in Maine hinges on the people you meet along the way.
Vacationing In Maine. Returning To The Same Favorable Haunts Or Somewhere New?
When I was Houlton Maine Chamber of Commerce president, marketing the town for tourism was huge.
Thinking like a brand new traveler wandering into town. What would he or she need besides a warm feeling that they were welcome? How to help the new to your area tourists not waste their short time and hard earned dollars in your Maine home town? Showcasing what there is to do for fun wherever you live in Maine is huge.
So much on the list may not be your personal favorite but what do the vacation audience members want to achieve from this vacation getaway stay?
See sunrises, sunsets like no other. Meet a Maine moose, see a bald eagle, strap on a bib to eat a steamed lobster. Sample a whoopie pie or slice of blueberry filled anything. Pick up souvenirs with Maine splashed across them.
Waterfront Maine Vacations Are The Most Memorable!
How to get a Maine tourist to stick around for a stretch of days and to return for more?
To share their enjoyment with their inner circle of friends to expand on the local Maine tourism traffic to your zip code. Regional tourism and helping tourist travelers “build” an itinerary that includes more than just your corner of Maine is how state tourism dollars increase.
I just got back from a vacation to London England and Edinburgh Scotland.
Touring Edinburgh Castle In Scotland. Lots Of History. Not So Many Castles In Maine That Is A Lot Younger Historic State.
Meg, her mom and I learned a lot and got lots of exercise. How each tourism stop markets itself observed. Online and after you get there. Do you get a sense that the tour operator, restaurant, lodge owner has hospitality training?
Tower Bridge London England Toured On Recent Europe Vacation.
Is the individual providing the service you need? Or on their phone more than spending time with the “how can I help you?”. Meg and I did a lot of planning online and sorted through a lot of marketing, reviews, eyeball the media available. Again, what to do for fun is not the same list of responses for everyone polled.
Maine vacations are hard to beat and this is where our heart is.
The trip to cross the pond flying Delta to London England and Virgin Airlines back to the Logan Airport in Boston MA was different too.
Not because of jet lag or lack of hydration or sleep. Did it by the book. But like the flight experience, the dining, train travel, the museums, historical and scenery experience were not the same either. Like a movie or book you remember for days after you finish it. There is a reason why and all of us harvest different take aways looking back on any vacation.
Delta Airlines Over, Virgin Airlines Back “Across The Pond” On Vacation.
Our bus tour guide to Sterling Castle Paul gave us the history lesson on Wallace, Mary Queen of Scots, Robert the Bruce, Kelpies, Nessie the monster folklore.
Train Travel On Vacation in Scotland.
In between hearing Scottish local historic information about the clans, Paul was awesome. All the information served up from a Scotsman while driving the bus along the highland country sides dotted with sheep. There was music. Fill from Paul’s playlist shared with our group added to the local Scottish immersion.
The Chieftains, Proclaimers, Annie Lennox, Simple Minds and other artists on the small bus ride with the panoramic windows made it memorable. We were not in Kansas or Maine or stateside anymore.
Ran into one fellow wearing a kilt who we asked are you cold? He smiled and quickly retorted “it’s not cold, this is Scotland”. Overall the weather was a lot warmer than everyone in London and Edinburgh remembers just like here in the Maine.
Edinburgh Castle View In Edinburgh Scotland.
This trip made me really think about the new to Maine traveler and all the maps, GPS tools available to guide them.
And in my small town in Northern Maine, how to beef up the technology to create a digital guide to help travelers more completely.
The reviews on places to stay, the Maine attractions, where to eat, etc are all well and good. There are lots of happy, crabby and in between remarks and tourism propaganda to sort through building your Maine vacation experience. But what are your expectations and are they reasonable for the time and money available?
Everyone who lives, works and plays in Maine wears a tourism fire in my belly hat. Or should.
Touring Edinburgh Castle In Scotland. Lots Of History. Not So Many Castles In Maine That Is A Lot Younger Historic State. It’s Good To Explore In Travel.Scottish Bag Pipe Shop. Lots Of Bag Pipe Music Heard As You Climb The Hills, Down The Dales In Edinburgh Scotland.
I am proud of where I live and want to share why.
That is a big part of what the Me In Maine blog is all about right? To help shape vacations in Maine for others looking for rest, relaxation, entertainment, culinary delight. And to save them money in the process to help assure the Maine vacation is the best it can be.
All the locals pitch in and because we are not over crowded or withdrawn, the travel to Maine is a lot more relaxed for everyone involved.
Low population and less online to glean and study forces small town Maine vacations to be kept simple.
Need A Mineral Rich Healthy Bath? The Romans Built This Bath England Communal “Hot Tub”.
Instead of a commercialized Disney Land of expensive vacation package options to slide, scroll and display on your device, rural Maine if naturally different.
Less four color glassy tri-fold tourism paperwork to eyeball. The approach to peddling Maine tourism has to be creative. Limited resources and careful spending is the Maine frugal way.
Maine Lake Ice Fishing, Frozen Lakes Needed.
In Maine, there are a handful of cities and over 450 small communities.
Well oiled Chamber of Commerce resources are not always so plentiful online. To use in connecting the dots and reading between the lines to shape up your planned Maine vacation.
Time For Fish & Chips In London England.
But ask a local Mainer who is helpful and more than willing to suggest vacation options for your day and weekend ahead. Don’t just rely on skimpy online reviews and limited blog posts, videos, websites to tell the Maine vacation story.
Taken any interesting trips or are you over due for some R&R?
Houlton Maine, Last Place To Experience Totality, The Total Solar Eclipse 2024!
Reach out and here for questions about anything Maine.
Please consider you are personally invited and on the VIP invite list for a solar eclipse visit or whenever you can take the trek to Maine. Would love to meet any of your blog post followers and here for questions or tips in getting around, where to go, what the options are!
This total eclipse in Houlton Maine is the last stop for totality in the USA. Maine tourism, something that goes not happen again in my lifetime. No better spot to experience the total solar eclipse than in Houlton Maine, Aroostook County!
This section of Maine has a major pull for instate and out of state residents alike. Over the weekend, headed out Friday night from “The County” to zip to Wells Beach, Maine. Then get up early to beeline to Pease Air Force Base For an airshow.
Love To Fly And It Shows? Thunder Over New Hampshire Air Show This Past Weekend!
Have been to smaller Maine airport fly ins and posted photos, videos, details before on this Maine blog.
Fly Over, Pease Air Force Base New Hampshire B-52H Display. Part Of Food, Fun, Flight, Force At Thunder Over New Hampshire Air Show.
So back to Thunder Over New Hampshire highlights. The Saturday weather was perfect, hot and clear to see the aviation acrobats overhead. I wondered about Sunday being cloudy and cooler if that impacted the overhead oohs and ahhs.
Seeing a B-52H up close and using the 185′ wingspan as shade overhead while munching on cheeseburgers and cheese nachos. My first big airshow and everything unfolded overhead in front of us.
Air Plane Jet 5-52 Specs At Thunder Over New Hampshire Air Show.
Families with connections to the military and lots of younger cadets starting their service careers helping out running the event. It was neat to see all ages, their t-shirts to give you a hint of why they came to the air show event at Pease Air Force Base.
I wondered if the particular B-52H sitting next to the runway might have been stationed years ago at Loring Air Force Base in Limestone Maine.
The placard spelled out the B-52’s entered service of the skies around 1961 while Loring AFB was in full swing as a SAC base. Loring was 9472 acres of military secrets that closed September 1994.This B-52H pictured is stationed in Louisiana and on loan like the helicopters, other aircraft on display. Or put to the test in the air over Pease Air Force Base in New Hampshire this past weekend.
The Loring AFB closure hit the economy of Northern Maine very hard and in some respects, Aroostook County is still recovering for the population loss.
F 35 Jet Fighter Parked At Pease Air Force Base At This Past Weekend’s Air Show.
Food at Street & Company finished off the down and back weekend when lucky enough to live in Maine.
Clams, Seafood, Outdoor Dining At Street & Company, Old Port Maine.
To be able to zip to corners of Vacationland to sample other parts of Maine. Dining outside on the sidewalk and watching party goers ply up and down the narrow cobblestone side streets around the Old Port helps enhance the experience. Maine seafood is always a tasty menu selection when you are in the Old Port region of Portland ME.
Old Port Maine Dining Options, There Are Many To Consider.
Been to Maine for a quick or three day, maybe a week’s vacation?
Are you over due and looking for suggestions? Thank you for follow our Me In Maine blog posts. Trying to hit lots of areas of Maine to show you this is worth your time and consideration. Welcome to Maine. The way life should be.
Where To Dine, What Number Of Places To Hit On Your Weekend Outing In The Old Port Maine?
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All ears and here to help hunt and peck with photos and videos places in Maine to explore. Lucky to live in Maine and proud of the state where folks are friendlier, neighborly, more helpful in part due to lower population and tighter connections. Maine small towns are really like large families. Get to Maine. Feel up close and personal and where you belong up in Maine!
Mini vacations in Maine, Whaleback Lighthouse in Kittery ME.
Maine is a big state. But when you live here full time, exploring every nook and cranny happens. Return trips to parts of Maine that hit you deep inside are common.
Metal Extension Is No Longer On Whaleback Lighthouse, Kittery Maine
This blog post about a weekend getaway heading from Houlton Maine south on I-95 to visit a new granddaughter, a tad older grandson in the Boston MA area.
The travel distance, how far away in Maine is everything? This time of year it depends on the weather forecast on actual travel times for safety sake, not just the mileage.
If you have followed the Me In Maine blog, lighthouses are always a stable to cover.
The state tourism folks say there are 65 lighthouses in Maine. I always thought the number was 68 Maine lighthouses. Somehow Whaleback Lighthouse in Kittery ME escaped coverage. Once you start collecting them for photo and video capture, you realize one thing.
Some are easy peasy or very hard to access in the collection of Maine lighthouses.
Not the prettiest of lighthouses in Maine, Whaleback is made of granite blocks.
I think West Quoddy lighthouse in Lubec with the red stripes is the most attractive. Whaleback Lighthouse is at the mouth of Portsmouth Harbor. Started in 1829 and finished the next year, Whaleback Lighthouse set Uncle Sam back $21,000.
Then over two years starting in 1870, a new better built version of Whaleback lighthouse was constructed.
The Maine lighthouse had a cast iron fog signal attached seen in the black and white image. The metal addition did not improve her looks but with lighthouses in Maine, the purpose in communications is far more important than glamour.
The original lighthouse had poor construction but also is in a location hammered by the ocean waves at the mouth of Portsmouth Harbor. Probably could use a breakwater to help buffer the pressure from wind, water, ice.
Some Maine lighthouses are far far out to sea.
You need a Maine lobster boat or ferry ride to access. Or they are on an island close to the mainland parked at the harbor entrance but facing the Atlantic Ocean. From the shore these lighthouses not visible from shore. This is like the location of the lighthouse in Cutler Maine, Little River lighthouse.
Whaleback lighthouse is just off shore and Portland head light has just as convenient drive to easy access where to put your car.
Just park it and enjoy your walk around the trails. The areas of both Whaleback and Portland head light utilized as former forts to defend the Maine coastal regions from intruder attack. Used as observation points. To detect any possible hostile enemy force floating in hoping to be undetected from the seaward approach.
Can you imagine the lonely but important life signalling dangers in all kinds of Maine weather living in a lighthouse? With only ledge rocks and pounding waves rocking your small tight quarters and supplying all that ice cold sea spray.
You have to be able to entertain yourself with a good book or strive to be a writer, a painter.
To capture the experience off the coast of Maine calling a lighthouse home sweet home. The lighthouses with some patch of dirt surrounding them were often farmed.
Your own farm fresh local eggs, small animals and a modest harvest from the lighthouse garden soil.
Can you imagine life as a Maine lighthouse keeper? One lighthouse keeper I read about bought a piano for his wife’s entertainment. But only one sheet of music could defeat the purpose and cause emotions to rise in the solitude and a single tune over and over. Could too much peace and quiet most of the time challenge your sanity?
Walked the cobble stone streets to different Old Port places to eat on each visit. Last winter, on the same trek to Boston to see family, a stop in the Old Port happened.
The Sound Of Food Traffic And Vehicles On Old Port’s Cobble Stone Roadways. Hear, Feel The Rumble?
Perfect Blend Of Atmosphere, Friendly Staff And Farm & Sea Fresh Meal Ingredients At Fore Street Restaurant, Old Port Maine Place To Dine.Old Port Maine Dining Experience At The Fore Street Restaurant.Top Notch And Like Many Old Port Dining Option, First Class Food, Staff, Location.
After the Whaleback Lighthouse walk around the “fort”, a drive through the twisting, winding Kittery Maine roadways to catch some of the local scenery.
Kittery Maine, Can You Imagine Living In The State’s Southern Most Community Point?
Taking you along as readers, followers of Me In Maine blog posts.
Along The Coast Of Maine, Maine’s Southern Most Lighthouse Visit.
Feel so so lucky to live in Maine and to share what it is like in Vacationland. Down and back leaving Friday afternoon and returning Sunday night on this mini vacation in Maine.
Beat feeting it to avoid icy driving conditions along I-95 heading north up into Maine on the way back home.
Fort Kent Maine Is As Far North As You Can Go. On The Other End Of Maine, One Tall Wide State.
Getting another daughter all settled in for another semester at Husson College one extra to do list item on the way home.
In Bangor the freezing rain was just starting but Meg and I were able to drive out of it. Cloudy but no ice, warmer temperatures and no snow once we hit Lincoln Maine on the journey back into “Aroostook County”, the Crown of Maine.
Stay tuned. More lighthouses in Maine to explore and other popular and lesser know tourist suggestions to come.
Moody, Wells Beach Maine is one popular spot I have discovered. You’ve been laboring pretty hard and all work, no play makes for a dull boy or girl right? How about a little Maine beach sand? Some fun in the sun with sea salt air? The sound of a crashing waves? And lots of locally sourced surf and turf Maine food prepared just the way you like it, remember it from the last Maine vacation.
What Do You Think Is This Home Owner’s Favorite Color? Maybe Prince Or Barney Lived Here At One Time.
COVID and the pandemic kind of tabled the vacation in Maine idea for many for awhile. But not anymore and here comes the fun in the sun at the sand with the surf on a Maine beach. You on this vacation train?
Life’s A Beach Right? Maine Beach Vacations In Moody, Wells, Perkins Cove Are Special.
This blog post on vacation on a Maine beach returns to a familiar haunt, the Wells, Moody, Ogunquit Maine area coastal locations.
Making it heavy on the photo essay end of things so eye candy dominates the blog. And nothing gets lost in a seawall of words. Here are some images from Moody, Wells Beach Maine!
Sunset, The Maine Coastal Boats Return One By One. The Foot Bridge Raises To Allow Sail Boats Harbor Entry Into Perkins Cove.
Depending on what you do for a career, I think most of us never really stop thinking about our jobs. The vacation on Maine beach is to run away and then look back at where we live, what we do for work, our family, how life is going so far. We’ve blogged about Wells, Moody Beach area of Maine’s coast before.
Maine Vacation Homes, All Sizes And Prices. Looking To Own, Not Rent Your Vacation Spot?
Squeezing out enough time to take a Maine vacation is a lot easier when you already live in state for a the getaway take a much needed break.
No matter how long or short, you took the time to log some vacation miles. In your home away from home new location, I always think what would it be like living here.
Proud Americans Waving The Red, White And Blue USA Stars And Stripes.
I study the real estate and what’s for sale, what’s it cost.
What you do or do not get for how much. This is not the first foray to Wells or Moody Beach sand, or time spent in the Ogunquit and Kennebunkport region of the Maine coast.
Returning To A Vacation Location In Maine. How About The Wells, Moody Beach Area? All Ages Love A String Of Sunny Days At The Maine Beach.
But this summer’s vacation visit makes me realize forget buying at the top of the Maine real estate market.
Too little to pick from and high priced means time for real estate market study of neighborhoods and housing stock. But apply lots of impulse control in the real estate spending department.
To spend some time vacationing in a new region of Maine but making it a property investment at the same time. Knowing others would rent out what you purchase as long as their health allows. The same people taking the exact amount of days to vacation in the same section of the calendar annually is pretty common.
Stay Down Front, Below The Private Beach High Water Seaweed Mark. Them’s The Rules.
Some snooze, others read a book, a few nurse something cold. You see long fishing poles and vacations carrying bait in the other hand. Kids make sand castles, divert water into “ponds” or search for interesting rocks to take home. Maybe some sea glass gets collected.
Find A Spot, Park It For The Day At A Maine Beach! Is That The Vacation Plan?
Not everyone wants or can afford to buy and take on the debt and responsibility of another second vacation property to maintain.
But anything on or near the Maine waterfront whether coastal ocean or inland lake, river, stream or pond is never a bad investment. Holding its own and staying off the ropes when Maine real estate markets warm up or cool off until the next economic cycle arrives.
Flowers Of All Colors And Kinds Add Splash To The Maine Coast Scenery.
Tourist traps, yes, Maine coastal areas are but delicious, fun relaxing ones.
The density of people with license plates heavy to folks from New England was heavier than usual. The habit of a summer Maine vacation stay on the coast did not happen for many during the COVID pandemic. Just changing up where you live with something outside of that day to day routine. Maine vacations, no better place to land and explore.
The Rental For This Maine Vacation At Wells, Moody Beach, At South Tibbetts On A Corner Lot.
Like lots of places “help wanted” signs were everywhere on this Maine vacation.
And some instead of NO VACANCY used kinder, gentler terms. PLEASANTLY FULL, COMFORTABLY FULL and variations to show gratitude for every room or rental cottage or beach house until is taken. For many in the tourism industry, the 2021 summer season is catch up but highly profitable at the same time. Americans, Canadians, everyone no matter where they are from needs and wants to vacation travel as long as they are able.
The Sun Porch For Early Morning Coffee. Planning The Day At The Maine Beach On Vacation. It Happens Here.
Remembering “there’s no such thing as time” or hustling to watch the clock on your Maine vacation.
To squeeze out more production with greater multi task efficiency not always the mission. You are off the clock, but mildly aware of the weather forecast to catch some quality beach time. To plan other events when the sun is on vacation too. So the rainy day for other Maine R & R options.
The Porch On A Maine Vacation Property. The Best Spot To Review Or Plan A Vacation Day. This One At Moody Beach.
I like where I already live in Maine. Aroostook County to me is a place like no other.
Less people, not traffic, lower price fun, not so commercialized. But being four hours away and suddenly able to change up the same state, different location day to day scenery completely helps the life reflection process.
Moody Beach, Here We Come! Another Day In The Sun, Sand, Surf. Starting With An Early Morning Walk And Continual Returns To The Ocean Beach Vacation Magnet.
Developing five year plans, reviewing the New Year’s resolution line items, improving relationships, studying the local real estate market and sampling local cuisine. A lot happens on a Maine vacation to a person, their family members.
My partner Meg spent her childhood with yearly Wells Beach area Maine family vacations.
Her desire continue to spend chunks of time yearly in this particular coastal region of Maine is no secret. Seeing how happy this area of Maine makes her means better start looking for an investment property in the Wells Beach area. To pay for itself in vacation rental income and to get some private personal use at the same time.
Time For Lobster, Steamed Clams. Good Food At Perkins Cove To Cap Off A Day At The Maine Beach.
Hard to rent when a lifetime has been spent getting folks out of the rent rut and into Maine home ownership remember? It’s what I do. Solve housing puzzles. Helping folks find housing for whatever their life stage requires.
Like Jewelry, The Finds Of Interesting Rocks, Sea Shells, Sea Glass At A Maine Beach.
As you walk the beach or bike the roadways around Moody, Wells Beach, I don’t want to be one or a couple rows back from the surf and sand.
Some of the back vacation beach rentals are far from the public right of way and others right across the road for easy access. Some sections of private beach means better plan your visit around the ebb and flow of the local tides. If there is beach sand in front of the seaweed high water line, here’s your spot to spread the beach blanket.
Neat And Trim, Maine Vacation Properties Are Well Maintained. Usually. The Pretty But Prickly Wild Roses Make A Privacy Security Fence Not Needed.
There are McMansions. Older classic New England beach houses that are still interior bare wall open studded. And everything inbetween. You see construction on vacant lots where there used to be a vacation rental. One fire on the a front row vacation home where you instantly think “hope no one was hurt. The neatly named Vacation places you sense families have been coming to for years. And so many green thumb kept up tip top in high test pride of ownership landscaping.
A Day At The Maine Beach. Sunshine High Over Head, The Sound Of The Crashing Surf, All This Sand.
There are so many Maine vacation beach houses of all kinds and conditions to consider.
Time for the saving, waiting and doing my real estate homework to get ready to buy is fun. A shorter vacation for me because not really the time to leave loose ends in a hot Maine real estate market dangling back at the office. But the riding bikes, taking longer beach walks, spending time on a screened in porch later at night and earlier around sunrise. Then high tailing it back to “The County” energized and full of a new perspective in the return to daily living.
Properties On The Beach In Maine. Those Are The Pricey Ones That Everyone Wants. Upfront With The Ocean Beach Sand In Your Lap All To Yourself.
Visits to the same region but not the same season yields an entirely different experience.
Like this same location like in the Wells Moody Beach area without everything open or quite so many after the same surf and turf offering.
No Little Shack Or Shanty. Some Maine Beach Homes Are Compounds, High Taxed And Swanky. Used By Multi Generations Of Vacations Who Never Plan To Sell Out Of The Family.
Lucky to live in Maine is always the take away from these blogged about vacation visits whenever they can be juggled in to take a much needed break. Hope you enjoy all the images from the most recent Wells Beach, Moody Beach and Ogunquit Maine visit. More Maine photos, just the right amount of blog post copy to share a recent vacation to the coast heavy on imagery.
Plenty if you beeline to a tourist trap along the coast. I know, I know, those lighthouses, sliding on a bib to crack a steamed Maine lobster venues are a lot of fun. But they can set you back some serious money. Being planted in the Old Port section of Portland Maine is a little pricey if you spend a serious amount of time there.
This blog post explores the question of just how much it costs a day to vacation in Maine.
Outdoors Hiking, Taking In The Natural Beauty Of Maine. The Best Low Cost Maine Vacation!
The advice on where to vacation is often written by a media specialist many moons away from Maine.
The hired pen “suggestions” are hired out ones to strongly suggest to the audience this is how to should vacation in Maine and where, when, why. But what if you don’t own the hospitality business being highlighted in the write up? The outfit or chamber of commerce touting this location as the only place to consider staying and spending lots of money while you do is not trying to save you money. Not giving you options on how to vacation cheaper in Maine so you can visit more than just once a year.
This Maine blog post explores other cheaper ways to get away from the tourist trap high expenses and to see more of Vacationland without the unnecessary extra costs.
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For starters, what time of the year are you planning vacation travel to Maine?
Remember the “shoulder seasons” are your best value. The periods just before and immediately after the busy summer Maine vacation season save a lot of bucks. Plus not so many people on the sidewalks of those quaint Maine harbor town locations.
Way less traffic on the narrow streets networked around the Maine coastal harbor town locations in the shoulder season. You don’t see the cruise ships double parked out front. The big tourist buses from Canada and beyond are not casting a shadow in the restaurant parking lots.
And the people who work the restaurants, run the inns, hotels, bed and breakfast locations along the coast are less stressed, more friendly during the shoulder season.
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The daily grind serving the public is not so intense or fast paced for the Maine motel and restaurant, the amusement business operators.
Everyone is more laid back and enjoyable like the surroundings that are not to capacity and beyond for tourists. Just my suggestion as a local native Mainer in my travel experience.
So how much it costs per day to stay during a Maine vacation depends on the time you arrive.
Winter can make the lodging rates even cheaper and you’re right. Not every place to stay is open when snow piles up outside the Maine tourist establishment. Many motel, cabin, hotel and inn owners take off for the sunny south to spend the winter months. To unplug and recharge for another Maine summer tourist seasons ahead without blisters from operating a snow shovel.
But winter stays at popular Maine tourist destination offer something else besides savings.
Solitude, smaller groups, no lines and everything in the tourist mecca returns to simple small town Maine existence sans the tourist dollars. Take Wells Beach Maine for example during the winter months. Winter at Sunday River or Sugarloaf USA is not cheap but sure is fun. The cost to maintain that many downhill ski trails, especially when Mother Nature does not cooperate with the snow flow all takes money. Plenty of snow in this Maine Sugarloaf ski video getaway over one New Year’s Day a few years back.
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The added golf courses, hiking and biking trails and fall leaf peeking tours on the chairlifts all help the ski area’s bottom line financials.The smaller Maine ski mountains with lots more volunteers and less paid staff can weather the overhead easier to survive. Plus the cost of area lodging is much lower to the ground. The entire day in and out local economy in smaller rural communities is so much less.
The how much does it cost a day to vacation in Maine can be $250 a night and up or the coupon rate of $59 for the lay your head in the bed.
When traveling to Boston MA living in Northern Maine, stopping in York seems to be the line to not cross for motel room rates. Way cheaper, no charge for parking or any other add ons happens getting off exit 7. Because once you go further south, open your wallet or purse wide happens for the cost of the stay. Parking is never a problem in Maine for vacations. You can not say that when hemmed in a city like Boston with lots of one way old cobblestone streets.
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The cost per day of a Maine vacation room, suite, cabin, where you stay depends on the season, the region, what events are happening.
What do you like to do for fun and is the vacation around your kid’s school recess break? School basketball tournament week or a labor day, 4th of July long weekend are prime time when vacancy rates are low. Dead of winter changes everything on the lodging bill and the meal deals to expect. If you tow up a camper trailer and go the RV route on a leased lot with hook ups, when you pitch a tent. The overhead is different than a five star resort with all the overhead.
Getting a lean to at Baxter State Park or renting a house on the beach or a lake and splitting expenses with your loved ones that jointly vacation as a group.
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There are many approaches to hold down the how much it costs a day to vacation in Maine.
But do you snow sled, downhill or cross country ski, ice fish or snowshoe and is outdoor winter hiking up Katahdin your idea of fun? Are you more of an apres ski kinda person and want to curl up by a crackling fireplace blazes with a blanket as you gaze out onto the Maine winter landscape?
The problem with average costs per night for vacation rates in a state as large as Maine is the extreme. The $250 a night in Kennebunkport does not match up with the $59 motel rate in Presque Isle or Fort Kent, Rumford or Eastport Maine. The average them all together for around $160 a night is not what you would expect to pay everywhere in Maine. More on Downeast Maine.
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What do you spend for meals? That’s like asking what is the electric bill going to be in this Maine home each month.
Do you hang your sheets out to dry on a line or do you wash Suzie’s one favorite pair of jeans for the big high school dance that is suddenly only a few tense hours away? Are the household showers long and never ending or do what you gotta do and get in, hop out to dry off? Still in the one Saturday night bath whether you need it or not mode? Your habits and preferences dictate how high or low will the household bills go month to month. We live cheaper in rural Maine so how to vacation, what to do for fun is lower cost too!
Do you like picnic lunches and outdoor dining by a stream with a Maine mountain view?
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Or do you think taking advantage of a family meal special is cheap not instead a way of freeing up vacation funds for something else fun?
Your best Maine vacations are the ones that did not cost an arm and a leg going into debt to pay off for months to come. In small town Maine, pre-COVID, tonight’s meal at the local farmers museum for $8 gets you everything from new potatoes and fresh peas, ham, baked beans and home made bread and biscuits. To the same room for later. To take your pick of created at home just a few hours ago fresh pies of all kinds. Whip cream or ice cream on that generous slab of pie?
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The earlier breakfast down at the local Maine snow sled or fish and game club is even cheaper.
Plus there was a family discount. The land owners dinner is free to those letting local sledders run a groomed, market trail across their property. The breakfast ploys, pancakes, steak and eggs with fresh juice, hot coffee and muffins, toast again served up by the volunteers you know by first name in small Maine towns.
You can rent a cabin on a Maine lake for around $80 a night at a place called Tall Timber Lodge in New Limerick.
Or tap into the many vacation rentals where owners offer their places dirt cheap. Airbnb rentals, VRBO cost of and home away from home travel sites make the Maine vacation way more affordable. So you have money left over for more than one trip to Maine a year from the savings.
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The same people rent the place they buy for vacations in Maine too.
That lake camp or woods cabin owner started off sampling Maine on vacations. Then decided to invest and become a local property owner because of the positive vacation experience. The vacation second home up in Maine is put up for rent. Everywhere, the same one or two weeks, folks look forward to another leased piece of Maine in the same spot. If you don’t buy a property in Maine, you are more likely to explore other areas of Vacationland. When you have the investment, working on it and returning to the same base to explore a section of vast Maine happens.
So the cost per day of your vacation in Maine for meals does not have to be an average of $40 a day when you go deep local.
The thinking that the trip to Maine for a couple for one week will cost over $2200 does apply in so many cases. When you hit a church supper meal, you dine with the locals and they take you in like you lived there. Sharing the experience of living in their small Maine town and if you ask, volunteering how best to spend your vacation. Pointing out what to make sure you don’t miss out seeing while you are staying in this part of Maine. Isn’t that a more memorable Maine vacation that won’t set you back vast sums?
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Agri-tourism where you visit a local Maine farm or learning about the state’s rich lumbering history with museum tours.
The trip out with a lobsterman, someone fishing for a living is the real deal. It’s way more than mini golf and go karts or whale watching and lighthouse tours to make your Maine vacation memorable. So much extra to squeeze out of the vacation time when you approach it like a local who lives here. That is your best guide on what to do for fun.
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Are you planning to crack lobsters and munch on butter dipped steamed clams or trail mix and open grill sizzling steaks or BBQ lathered chicken?
Pass the potato or macaroni salad please. The cost a day to vacation in Maine can be just a tank of gas, a stop at a grocery store for grub and hanging your hat at a simple woods camp.
Just listed a 60 acre woodlot in Washburn Maine that would be one ideal simple vacation destination.
Just got a call just now from a Maine land buyer in Lisbon, down country who has relatives in the Presque Isle area. He and a friend are thinking seriously of going in 50-50 to buy this well wooded property. The one that is more than just a source of income when trees get selectively harvested to open up recreational trails.
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The Washburn Maine land for cheap instate vacations fronts Pettingill Brook.
And the town shows 72 acres, more than the 60 acre estimate in the warranty deed. If this Maine land buyer builds a simple camp, it could be rented out when not being used for profit.
Wood stove, playing cribbage and cards, having wildlife for neighbors uptah the rustic camp in Maine.
Is that all you are looking for in your Maine vacation? Is the Maine land on snow sled trails and four wheeler ATV pathways? Yes it is and building restrictions, heavy duty HOA’s? Not in Aroostook County or most of rural Maine is what you find for building permits. No people, no hassles, that’s Maine. Where common sense still rules the day.
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Dial in your type of Maine fun.
Is your Maine vacation outlet shopping and are the kids going to be blue screen reflection silent during meals, and on couches plugged into Internet devices like the back home routine? Or unplugged and hitting the trails for a family adventure to learn about a new area of Maine? Show of hands, who wants to hike up to the top of Mt Katahdin tomorrow? Better get to bed early and pack lots of water, trail mix and quick energy snacks for the climb up and down Mt “K”, Maine’s mile high tallest peak.
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