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  • The New Year You Plan To Be Outdoors, In Maine More.

    Hear The Music Of Maine, Local And Out Of State Artists, Musicians.
    Maine Is Music All Around You. The Natural Kind, The Songs The Local Volunteer Musicians Create To Entertain The Whole Family Outdoors.

    Spending more time outdoors in Maine, enjoying the four seasons is one healthy New Year’ resolution.

    And because of more space, fewer people, the cost is small or none to fill those lungs with fresh air, your eyes with incredible scenery. Come listen to the water lapping on a one of our many Maine lakes, ponds.

    Visit Gulf Hagas …. which sounds like Las Vegas but is Maine’s version of a smaller “Grand Canyon”. Or kayaking, Maine river rafting or trek to the Allagash Wilderness Waterway if you are up for the adventure in 2013. Or whenever you can fit it in some R and R in Maine. Just get here.

    Make Maine your must do, healthy habit to be in Vacationland through out the year.

    Maybe a lighthouse in Maine, one of over 60 is the collection of images you want to add to the vacation photo album of memories. There is something special, that helps you unplug, let go and take away something special that stays inside around a Maine lighthouse, the rock bound coastline, sea air setting. Maine has four seasons and every special spot you need to return to looks, feels, is a little different depending on the time of year you vacation.

    Or maybe walking around the Old Port in Maine’s largest city Portland, to round out your knowledge of the Pine Tree State. If you claim to know Maine like the back of your hand.

    Remember,Maine is a rural farming state and the harvest of potatoes, blueberries, apples, anything agricultural is a special time to visit too! Farmers markets in Maine are a perfect chance to meet the down to Earth hardworking people of our neat state.

    Maybe getting out on a newly groomed Maine snow sled trails to ride, explore where a car does not go is what you had in mind. For something different, to see where the wildlife of Maine live.

    To enjoy the Maine outdoor setting way fewer people get to experience.

    Sliding for kids or adults, down hill skiing happens around Maine in the winter months too.

    Thank you for following the Me In Maine Blog Posts. I try to make the posts varied, special and to reflect the one of a kind setting only Maine can provide you. Happy New Year and hope our paths cross some way, some how in 2013.

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

  • You’ve Been To Maine… Really Now.

    Explore Portland Maine, The Coast But All The Rest Of Maine!
    Fun In Old Port Maine, But More to Vacationland Land To Explore, Discover.

    Ask someone about Maine from out of state and often when they raise their hand to say they have been there, it means the coastal regions.

    Places like Bar Harbor, Portland, Ogunquit Maine. Or out to Peaks Island, Maine or one of the many others dotting the view off the rock bound, craggy coastline of Vacationland.

    But to really experience, sample Maine you have to spend more time than one or two visits.

    And not just to the same place, familiar spot. Maine is a big state and takes more time to cover the expanse. To explore, discover. Requires a little more investment of time. Venturing inland to other places like Baxter State Park. Maybe the Northern Allagash Wilderness Water Way. Or the memorable Grand Canyon of Maine, Gulf Hagas. Perhaps white water rafting the Penobscot, Kennebec or Dead Rivers has yet to be stamped on your Maine passport collection of never fade memory making places.

    And depending on the season the same places you grow to love and journey to yearly become different in Maine.

    Because of what you do there that season. Example, Sugarloaf Mountain is fun to swish swish down hill ski. But in the fall foliage, on the world class golf course, everything at that western Maine venue changes. A different application of the same great fun place no matter what the season, reason for making time to visit. Over and over.

    Maybe sneaking across the US border into Canada with boards on the ski rack from Maine. Come here to unplug, recharge like on Cadillac Mountain, in Acadia Park.

    Maine, she gets in your system and good luck shaking her. Getting over her. Not going to happen. Maine, consider investing some time and maybe a little money to spend more time in Maine. Start small with a vacation and watch it build up and become a healthy addiction this place called Maine.

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

  • The Best Time To Visit Maine…

    Clucking, Whistling, Yelps... To Guide The Maine Horse Teams.
    Maine, Like When We Were Kids, We’re Outdoors Most Of The Time.

    Trick question because there is no best time to visit Maine.

    And your particular availability depends on the balls you juggle in the game called Life. When the kids are busy in activities ranging from T-ball to horse riding to cheering camp and hockey clinics, your ability to venture out revolves around school vacations.

    But when the kids are grown, you have the leisure to schedule some spur of the moment trips to Maine for rest and relaxation.

    You suddenly have boatloads of options. Really. As for sea coast towns and harbors, a little before and a tad after the main tourism season give you a more personal glimpse into the unique flavors each area offers too. Less crowded, more elbow room. And what about Maine weather, climate, any myths? Oh yeah.

    Things to do in Maine. Whoa. That is a tough one because of all the choices. As for area parks, bring your bike to explore the 50 plus miles of carriage roads. Take in the unique stone bridges of Acadia National Park. Or hike one of the many trails, the big selection of mountains at Baxter State Park and others around Maine. Being retired in Maine, relocating here for full time fun is cool. But you have lots of day and two day options. For a quick fix of Maine to tide you over until the next visit. All I know if one week would never do me if I was forced to live outside of Maine. Not nearly enough, need more in my system, day to day.

    Or if it is people you want to avoid, replace it with scenery and wildlife. You see more of both up close and personal by yourself, or as a couple. Maine was made for those kind of personal encounters. It’s not because we are anti social in Maine. But less people, more unspoiled wide open spaces on water, in the woods, on a hill top. Or peering out to sea at a Maine lighthouse. It’s not like this other places.

    No matter the season, or the reason, Maine.

    Always, always your best case scenario. Maine, are we there yet? Not just kids use the whine to show they are anxious and ready to bound out of the family car along the trip to get there. Stretch those legs, arms, your mind in Maine.

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

  • Maine, Spend The 4th Of July In Vacationland.

    Maine Is Less People, More Outdoor Beauty.
    Find Yourself In The Space In The Place Called Maine.

    Small Maine towns take 4th of July, other holidays pretty darn tootin’ serious.

    And everyone in the rural areas of Vacationland steps up to be part of the celebrations. More involved, more fun, home grown on the local level.

    What are you doing for the 4th of July?

    Need a visual and audio suggestion? Thought you would never ask…toggle, look, listen. Consider being in Maine this 4th of July to enjoy Independence Day among the best people on the planet for the red, white and blue hoopla and fireworks!

    Maine 4th of July Parade, State Fair Video.

    Maine State Fairs like the one in Houlton are loaded with fun activities.

    Point the car, truck, SUV, motorcycle north up Interstate 95 to hit “The County”.

    Maine, find your place in the space of the Pine Tree State up here in the right hand corner of the country. Parked on the Canadian border on three sides. Maine, always you best case scenario.

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

  • Amazing Woodpiles, Bountiful Maine Vegetable Gardens.

    Vacationing In Maine Is Year Round, All Four Seasons.
    Try A Slice Of Maine, Explore, Discover Vacationland.

    The days in Maine happen under mostly cobalt blue cloudless skies with sunshine lately.

    And as you drive around country roadways to local festivals and town celebrations you notice the route is in remarkably good shape for Maine, a state this big with just a tad over 1.32 million people.

    On those treks to differents regions of Maine, gardens, woodpiles in the local back yards show up with pride.

    Part of the family survival of eating well, nutrious and keeping the homestead warm as toast all winter long.

    Long rows of cut, split wood destined for a furnace or maybe just a kitchen cook stove to take the chill off. Next years wood supply being worked on right on schedule. Green, unseasoned wood that is twenty minutes old has no business in a Maine home wood heater of any kind. Can you say chimney fire? I knew you could.

    Some of the gardens in rural Maine are just extensions of the farm operation. The real cash cow is a crop or two grown in volume. But the garden is a special project with many going over the top for variety, for care and maintenance. Survivors we Maine people are. Making a game of it, embracing it. But not whining or talking about what we need to do.

    And living pretty green, long before the simple tread lightly, good stewardship lifestyle became in vogue.

    Before simple living in moderation was given a color to identify the lifestyle choice.

    I was lucky enough to hit the Downeast, Washington County Eastport Pirate Festival this weekend. Then take in a tour of Lubec Maine, West Quoddy Lighthouse on the coast.

    Like in renting, a deposit for security is given up front. As I weaved down through the roadways of Downeast and notice more rock formations than a lad growing up in Aroostook County is used to, I saw lots of pretty grandiose gardens, plenty of stacked like winter waiting soldier regiments of wood piles. Getting your chores done, work first before play priorities evident in Downeast Vacationland like in the Crown of Maine.

    Are you lamenting the end of summer?

    Maybe this is the best time to Vacation in state or from out of state Maine. Without the crowds, throngs of knick snack tourist item seekers. Have you ever been to a Maine coastal tourism rich town in the fall, winter and noticed the major contrast in the atmosphre, feel of the place? You get more of a sense of having the area to yourself.

    Oh sure, many of the shop keepers have packed up the mini van and high tailed it to Florida, Mexico or where they flit to before snow flakes start depositing. But the businesses still open, keeping the local town lights burning have some pretty neat people at the helm, running them. Holding down the fort. Shifting gears for the upcoming winter season. Like turning the page on a worn out, spent calendar month, the long list of outdoor winter recreation is planned for. Right after the fall foiliage fireworks of color bursts that is next up on the Vacationland carousel slide show. Get to Maine any time you can. There is no bad time.

    I’m Maine Broker, Andrew Mooers ME REALTOR
    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