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Go Fly A Kite In Maine.

Maine. Bring the kids, add lots of seashore sand, the sound of the surf.

Mix in the smell of the salt air off the coast of Maine. And if the wind is just right, take a kite skyward.

Don’t forget the sunscreen. Or to go for a sail boat ride fueled by the wind.

Anchor and take a dip, a nap, read a good book. Grill something back on the aft to take to the bow.

Listen To The Surf, Dazzle The Eyes With Water Diamonds. Wells / Moody Beach Maine.

Spent the Labor Day Weekend in the Wells Beach area and really enjoyed the Maine coastline. Brought you home a few snapshots from the Brownie Hawkeye.

You can not help but have fun on the Maine coast. You have to be amused and at put at total ease in the Maine beach regions.

Of The Yorks, Ogunquit, Wells, Sanford, The Kennebunks, Biddeford, Saco and Old Orchard Beaches.

Several helpings of fried clams hauled up from the deep destroyed.

A trip to Reny’s for the sand toys. Other bargains. (Pronouced BARRrr-gins)

N’er Beach Motel is well located affordable lodging option. If you are not couch surfing. Planning to sleep in your car or under a bridge.

Zeroing in on a touch down in the Wells beaches area of Maine?

With everything you need handy and easy to access, the N’er Beach Motel is about 45 units of lodging, one super where to stay option. To consider when you open the wallet or purse wide.

Trolley service to shuttle you back and forth from Wells to Ogunquit Maine tourist attractions. With words on front that rhyme with trolley one way. Blue ones with sea terms on the front heading north during the Maine tourist season.

Steer The Shortest Path To Maine. Get Some Sand In Your Shoes.

Look Mom, no hands. No driving needed for the 10 and 2. All aboard. Step to the back.

Hang out the open sides of the trolley rides and meet other “tour guides” that give you the straight skinny. On all the fine dining establishments to add dimension to your waistline.

The insider secrets shared. The ones about where to get the best experience for the memory making. What you take home to wherever you hang your lid.

Maine is famous for fine food.

And there is no shortage of it along the coastal towns of Maine.

Lots of outdoor farmer’s markets to do the dining plenty home grown and totally heathy too.

No shortage of roadside stands for the fruit and veggies in Maine.

The vacation along the Maine coast does not all have to revolve around the green clawed lobster that turns bright red.

When the timer ding dings it is time for the bib and jaws of life.

To extract the delicate meat to dip and let swim in the melted butter.

Sample ME. Pick A Place To Plant Your Beach Chair Along The Miles Of Maine Coastline.

Where the red carpet for the tourists is rolled out and kept fresh, new and different.

To gain the return traffic to familiar old stomping grounds in Vacationland.

But hanging out at the beaches of Maine. Hopefully, to pass on the habit to the younger ones.

Who are taught by example on this is one way to do this game call life.

To create the best uses of the spaces. Of time that you cull out and cherish.

Coast along the Maine coast.

Preserving the downtime to unplug and recharge from the total relaxation.

A Break From The Water, Flying A Kite At The Wells / Moody Beach Seashore.

There is nothing like it to make everyone feel relaxed.

Instantly. Because all the cares of the World evaporate.

That is what a true vacation is suppose to do. Suspend your life.

Replacing it with a whole entirely new backdrop. To gain perspective.

To reflect on how your life has been going. To continue or change the course heading as you see fit. Or steady as she goes because everything is fine and dandy.

In the rolling waves and timing the tide just right.

For a fun day in Maine at the coast, soaking up the sunshine and blue sky.

Have you had your sessions, plenty of doses of Maine sea coast this year?

And explored all the other areas of this big state of Maine? No matter what the season?

Maine, don’t stay away so long.

Pick A Season. Enjoy Your Place In The Sun In Maine.

Don’t stand her up or keep her waiting.

Bask regularly in her drop dead beauty any chance you get.

Here is a handy dandy Maine beaches guide. Maine has more than 28,000 bodies of water. Not just the Atlantic Ocean hogging the vacation spotlight.

Imagine 6000 ponds and lakes over an acre in size. Plus 22,000 pools and ponds. That ought to keep you from going thirsty for Maine waterfront fun recreational options.

Maine has over 32,000 miles of fishing water, for paddling whatever vessel you captain.

When you are lucky enough to live in Maine, there is no excuse whatsoever.

For missing out on scheduling the fun to take in the many attractions.

Farm Fresh Locally Sourced Food From Maine. Get Healthy Inside And Out In Maine.

The picking a few new ones from the long list of what makes Maine one of a kind special.

Ever thought how lucky you would be if you were relocated, retired in Maine?

Or just packed up and brought your telecommuting job to Maine?

Maine is one place to find your style. To get away from all the people that cramp it now where you live in the concrete urban jungle.

Maine, your best choice for healthy living.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North Street Houlton ME 04730

September 8, 2015
How Do You Relax In Maine?

I have heard the expression, statement that there are only two real kinds of people in this World.

If you reduced it down to peas and carrots, apples or oranges in grading people.

All Walks Of Life Make A Small Maine Community Shine.

You are either busy living, or busy dying. As Andy is told wearing prison garb faded blues. Dreaming of Mexico sitting up against, propped, holding up an institutional concrete block wall.

Surrounded by several strands of hurricane circles of barb wire.

Juggling a hand full of small rocks and loose sand like he was just idling in the warming up a pair of dice.

To get back in to the game. The one on the outside.

Some people find relaxation, peace in their personal gardens.

To help unwind and get centered. Others hike, bike, jog, paddle a kayak. Or wet a fishing line right around sunrise.

Or toting some fire power as they try hard. Not to scare while tip toeing. Rustling the dead leaves of

Fishing For Something Missing? Maine. Find It Here.

brilliant fall colors as sunset nears. Looking for winter food to park in the family chest freezer.

Others would bend your ear.

Have you thinking that there are but two species of human nature. That what motivates you makes you take one or the other side of the gym. Suit up.

Take you pick. The one labeled “Vocation” or “Vacation”.

The former never working a day in their life at a profession that feels anything but like work.

Because they are a happy raisin in the right place.

Under the big yellow light, heat source arcing overhead.

Maine, Get High. Lots Of Chances To Rise Above The Static.

Whatever you classify yourself, whatever makes you tick there is one thing we can all agree on.

Here and now, wouldn’t you say we all need peace and quiet, extra helping of unspoiled wide open space? To easy does it. To unplug, recharge. To gain perspective. Hear yourself think.

Life is ticking by. Nothing to lament, everything to gain by realizing it is short. But how you live it, what you show up for and add to yours is so so important.

And why a place like Maine was created. Maine, don’t keep her waiting. Pencil in that Maine vacation. Like the oil change, you are way way overdue.

Don’t stand her up or you only hurt yourself in missing out.

This fourth of July, anytime you can sneak away to head north up the pike.

To cross the big green bridge on the other end close to Bean Town. Get to Maine. See what you have been missing in Vacationland.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | 69 North St Houlton ME 04730

info@mooersrealty.com

June 24, 2015
Rides In The Country, Through Backwoods, Farms Of Maine.

When you are lucky enough to live full time or be able to spend vacations in Maine, it’s lots of outdoor rides in the country.

To explore and discover new places. Return runs to old familiar ones too. Peaceful, simple excursions to picnic by a very verbal, babbling brook. With song birds chirping, pitching in.

Being Able To Hear Yourself Think Is Easier In Maine.

Spreading the flannel blanket. Setting down, lifting the lid.

Opening up the wicker basket loaded with home made goodies. To munch a bunch on lunch in picture book all natural surroundings in the deep heart of Maine. That pause that refreshes to steal an old Madison Avenue marketing line from Coke.

Parking your rig to hike up a small Maine hill or mountain. To enjoy the view for dessert eye candy.

Traveling by car or jeep to the border of wilderness and then setting out on foot. Hoofing, huffing and puffing it to go deeper. Gliding across it paddling a canoe or kayak.

Cris-crossing Maine with a snow sled, ATV, on a horseback trail ride.

Or on skis, a road or mountain bike, ultra glide, whatever. Is all part of the slicing and dicing it up too. To dine and savor the delicious pieces. That come already pre-seasoned, enhancement sprinkled.

No people, more wildlife, unspoiled and preserved, that’s Maine. Story telling folks you run into, bump up against. Setting out to meander along whatever the daily special surprise journey pathway. Those locals are your savvy tour guide suggesters. Pointing you in the right direction navigators that know the lay of the Maine land.

Loving, living to share that appreciation for rural Maine that they protect, hold near and dear.

All another component to the healthy habit that hits you on many levels. All different take aways. Because of the angle you come into them, return to them for what you need. What is missing but about to be re-supplied as you stock up. On anything Maine.

Growing Up In Maine, The Fun Home Made, Outdoors. Back To The Land Never Stopped. There Is No A Resurgence. With Younger Maine Farmers.

Never quite the same as you grow and learn either. And one of many reasons you make the Maine back woods, waterways, wilderness settings the locations to enjoy private time.

Not just the busy streets of sandy beach. Rock bound coast with plenty of seafood and trinkets Maine tourist attraction.

With lots of people climbing down the gang plank of a cruise ship. Looking for something labeled with Maine to wear for the back home locals.

Coming into the down hill winding streets with an SUV loaded to the gills. Shark slow methodically plying with roof top cargo carriers replacing the dorsal fin. Snaking through the neighborhoods of a quaint, crowded seacoast Maine town.

My Uncle Gordon, Aunt Charlene used to take Sunday afternoon drives.

She being from the Stockholm / New Sweden area of Aroostook County. And as the drive enjoying the day, each other on the country roads to and fro, study of the landscape took place.

My Uncle, a mechanic, interested in anything with a motor attached would tell Aunt Charlene there is an old square bird Thunderbird. Pointing in the direction of that rock pile. See it behind that old, neglected sagging barn? She nodding, sharing with him a little later. That section of forested hardwoods on the ridge. Her turn to gesture with one hand. As the to talked and gawked. Was where her grandfather tapped maple syrup trees. When she was a young Swede, just knee high to a grasshopper.

I spent yesterday afternoon after listing an Oakfield Maine home up in the hills.

Maine, One Blue And Green Dream. Wake Up, Get To Vacationland.

Walking from the location to explore a new one. Passing Spaulding, near Timoney and Pleasant Lakes.

Down around Higgins Brook, up through Bear Gulch. Ascending into the Oakfield foothills. An area dubbed “The Switzerland of Maine.”

And thinking next weekend, maybe visiting Hastings Falls, or Gulf Hagas. Hiking up a new elevation not tapped in Baxter Park.

Some treks first runs, others much enjoyed re-winds. That is what Maine is all about if you are in the mood. New and different. Old and familiar. Whatta’ll it be today you need in Maine?

Communicate, explore, discover Maine. The way life should be. Take a lifetime spending a day at a time collecting the bits and pieces of all the neat locations. Help yourself to simple living in Maine. The only way to easy does it, make it real and extra special.

I’m Maine Real Estate Broker Andrew Mooers, ME REALTOR

207.532.6573

info@mooersrealty.com

May 3, 2015
The Best Time To Come To Maine?

The best time to wander into Maine if you are one of the unlucky ones forced to be on rations of vitamin “V”.

Vacationland when the dose is only a week a year, a long holiday weekend stint fix is just a tease. Does not begin to knock down the addiction and only serves to feed it really.

So the best time to come to Maine? When you need the change of scenery most. Space is the big attraction. Which causes all the other life blocks to fall into place. For a feeling of peace. Surrounded by all her natural splendor awe. But the real beauty of Maine beams, originates from the friendly small town centered hardworking people.
Cooler Nights, Warm Days Start Up The Maine Fall Color Machine.

So instead of ordering off the menu, trying to figure out how you think you should spend your limited time here on the Vacationland planet, just reach out, ask them.

Close the four color glossy tourist flyers. Stash, slide, put ’em away. And don’t just do what you did last year, the one before that. No no. Shake it up. Throw yourself a curve.

Ask the locals what’s good here?

What’s the special of the day or what would, do they do if they have time off? Were all caught up with their daily chores and obligations. They head out to where? Tell me about those special haunts, places off the beaten tourist industry pathway. But vow, pledge, raise your right hand. To keep it a secret.

Not let the cat out of the bag to maintain a level of trust too. So on the return, more adventures await you because you are inside the circle of trust. Don’t get hung up on how you dress, the color scheme or if everything matches or not either. The locals don’t…
Fresh Air, Clean Water, Wildlife Not People. That’s Part Of Maine’s Secret Beauty.
Just put on the correct application for the journey you embark on. Clothes that fit the particular day, season activity.

To many the ends of the tourist seasons are the sweet spot.

To find their happy place. The locals are a little more relaxed, the turn the corner is close. To roll in the new backdrop, slide the current one the other way to dove tail underneath. Preserved for the next rotation three seasons away.
All Year Long, Maine Is Outdoor Living.

What to do for fun, recharging a weary overworked mind and body.

To collect some magic moments in Maine for those “ah ha” light bulb illuminating times in your life. Maine’s magic is often getting lost, freed up and letting go. When hypnotized, put under her spell.

Tractor beamed into the drop dead gorgeous 360 degrees that wraps around you. As she tugs at all of your heart strings at once. And you stop fighting it, admitting to yourself you are in lub dub love.

Why don’t you take a hike. Ahhh, just go jump in a lake, get lost in Maine. Or do one of the slew of other outdoor, low or no cost activities you decide are just what the Doctor ordered.

Get away, beeline to Maine. She is your best friend, a healthy addiction, make her your habit for life.

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

September 9, 2014
You Have A Long Weekend In Maine, What To Do For Fun?

Maine is Vacationland, the folks at the department of motor vehicles, licensing remind each and everyone one of us with that one word declaration.

Along the bottom of the Maine license plates. So when you are lucky enough to be here in Maine for a weekend, one of the longer, extended ones, what to do?
Maine, One Blue And Green Dream. Wake Up, Get To Vacationland.

Well for starters, you don’t need a lot of money if you think off road. In the woods, on a Maine lake, river and it’s camping.

Tenting under the stars. Wearing a back pack during the day. Nightly cooking on an open fire. Simple outdoors fun in Maine is low cost. If you stay clear, veer far away from the expensive tourist traps along the coastline.

You are not here for a long time, but a good time. Don’t want to spend it in line. Elbow gnashing or shoulder to shoulder with others all just hankering a little Maine too right? Maine is not in your face, a lot about being by yourself. Getting away to spend some time with me, myself and I. Figure things out, mentally sort and organize your thoughts. The direction your life is headed that is good. The areas where dialing in, a tad of adjustment is needed.

Hiking is what Maine was made to do. Exploring, walking, talking, gawking. And the food outdoors, the work up an appetite, hunger makes the dining taste improve a hundred fold.

Biking in Maine, sometimes it involves ferry rides to an island.
Simple, Stunning, Real, All Natural. Maine.

The best part of being in Maine is the outdoor space, natural setting.

But start venturing closer to the tight knit communities. To meet, greet, sit with the locals at a church bean supper.

To chew the fat at a state fair, talking about an interest the other side of the conversation is already put in motion.

Comparing notes, what he would have done different. What by accident turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Vacations in Maine are highly educations, two way communicating easy to strike up.

Mainers share, care and are a talkative bunch.

Unless you start the dialogue drop in statement, remind of “back in Jersey”. That cools the mood, causes a little more space to happen. In the inching away, still smiling but just not as warm and fuzzy.
Moo Yourself. Don’t Happen To Have An Apple, Carrot, A Little Grain?

Bring your walking shoes, hiking boots, camping gear. Travel light, explore far and wide. But you won’t need a lot of money once you find yourself inside the boundary dotted lines of Maine.

Happy Labor Day faithful readers, followers of the Me in Maine blog posts. Gulf Hagas is on the radar for this hunt and peck, beginner wordsmith.

One only one of the many neat, memorable, healthy options when time is short. For the what to do for fun when on vacation in Maine.

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

August 30, 2014
Good Day In Maine, Caught Four Lighthouses.

Lighthouses In Maine, You Have Many Waiting For You.

When your kids grow up and flutter out of the nest, more time to fit in other neat stuff in Maine happens.

After dropping youngest off at the Portland Jetport yesterday, the ride back to Aroostook County meant a diversion. Dial in the GPS for some Maine lighthouses. Have a quest to collect photos, experience settings of the over sixty Maine lighthouses.

Some are small, pint size Maine lighthouses. Others are pretty colorful, painted ladies lighthouses. A few Maine lighthouses more photogenic or better known and circulated around the photo circles. Others a close second in wolf whistle generating or recognizable like Nubble Lighthouse in York Maine.

Bass Harbor Maine’s lighthouse features, boasts a red lens. But yesterday’s four additions to my collection covered finding, shooting images of Pemaquid and Marshall Point, Owlshead and Rockland Breakwater Maine Lighthouses. Pictured above, these are relatively easy ones to access quickly.

But Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse is missing the lawn, the space of an island around it.

With the granite walkway winter ice covered and requiring care in where you step. Coupled with Maine sea breezes whipping, pushing you along. Picking up intensity getting closer and closer to the end of the rocky pier. Hoping you don’t slide into the churning, ice ice baby cold sea water. You don’t see as many tourists in the winter visits. But the ones you do bump into are friendly.

On the way back from the Rockland Breakwater Maine Lighthouse a hand holding older couple approach me. On their way out to the lighthouse. While I was traveling back to the mainland near the Samoset Resort where the jeep was parked, waiting. The lady asked with a smile if they were serving hot chocolate. Although unmanned, I joked the canteen was indeed open. The Jamaican band playing hot hot hot. And the gift shop peddling a huge jewelry selection of Maine tourmaline gemstones at two hundred percent off. She knew the difference and I sensed the couple lived local. Did this visit often year round. Black flies not a concern on today’s habitual visit to the place they enjoyed, shared together because of the take away.

Hitting deeply, the Maine lighthouse experience is unique, unforgettable.

Becomes a healthy addiction. No matter what season you need a healthy fix. To make the time to explore. Find the one that is your favorite. That you revisit, reconnect with any of the four seasons. Maine lighthouses are all different styles, rugged period construction with varied histories. Communications inside a person amplify near the towering lights, walkways, dwellings that are heritage rich, loaded. What’s real, important, special in life gets prioritized. Becomes crystal, illuminated. In winter especially because it is just you and the Maine lighthouse, it’s setting, grounds. No tourists to interfere with your visit. The only chit chat is inside your head, heard in your heart.

You study her from all angles.

Consider what life as the Maine lighthouse keeper must of been like. On sunny summer blistering days, blustery winter snow blizzards. You throw out, cast seaward long thought provoking panoramic gazes. Out over the rock bound, uneven, craggy Maine coastline to the sea lanes she serves. Protects with a powerful light system and a very verbal nautical sea horn.

The mainland models are not as hard to access and collect. The Maine island lighthouses that require a boat ride to get up close and personal more of a challenge. I am determined to seek out, collect all the Maine lighthouses for the personal experience, the take away. For a snap shot to keep inside, to create an 8×10 for the wall to enjoy year round. Here is a map of Maine lighthouses locations, if you have the bug to collect them on vacations too! Maine, her memories never fade. Collect yours, don’t stay away so long.

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

January 4, 2013