Maine

[Lakeside]

Re-Pete,

Wow!? We just drove Highway 302 from North Conway to Portland last weekend.? What a spectacular drive.? Moose Pond near the NH border is just stunning.? Both Highland Lake and Long Lake look great, as well.? If we weren't in a hurry, we'd have rented a boat for the day on Long Lake.  If we could have rented an Epic, we'd have stopped for sure!

What a great part of the country!

[Bitzco]

I spent a year in Augusta and Farmington 20 or so years ago. In the fall, its the most beautiful place ever. If you could get rid of the cold in the winter and the bugs in the summer, it would be a fine place to live. I used to ice fish on the Canadian border and roam the woods the rest of the year, but man the bugs there will carry you away. If you have excess blood in your veins, those bugs will gladly siphon it off at no charge.

[cyclone]

I have spent a good part of the last three years there, mainely in Lewiston Auburn, but up in Bangor and in Rumford too. Nice place. Winter sucks, though.

[Bitzco]

Rumford; beautiful town. Stinky paper mill.

[cyclone]

Smells like $$Money$$:))

[Bitzco]

They do make the paper used for cashola there. When I lived in Farmington, I had a friend who was a scab at the papermill while it was on strike. He stole a 10 inch scrap of that paper. Dumb thing to do since it is illegal to have that paper in your possession.

[cyclone]

Nah they don't, he was BS'n you. They make LWC, which is coated newsprint. For stuff like Parade magazine. All currency paper for the US mint is made by Crane Paper in Mass. Been there too!, that's a wierd place. Its not made from wood, it's made from cotton linen.

Mainers are funny, pretty dang smart most of them but very country. And they talk funny. "Yah cahhnt pahhk yah cahhh theyahh yahh bastahd!!"  And they say "Wikkid" all the time. If something is difficult, they call it "wikkid hahhd"

[Bitzco]

Out in the country up there, I'd ask for directions and they'd say stuff like, "well ya go two fersees, then you'll see a red rock on the corner of the rock wall, turn right theah, an go another fersee until you come to the thick puckabrush. At the puckabrush, turn left to the old burgoine place an ask them cuz I don't think you can get theah from heah." By puckabrush they meant the really thick bushes on the side of the road that you stick your arm in and can't see it anymore. A fersee is when you look ahead as fer as you can see. You go to that point and you have traveled one fersee. From there you look ahead again as fer as you can see and that will be another fersee. Interested place Maine is.