donbarzini
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shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I used to drink that @$%# religiously as a 9-10yo kid. Would have like 2-3 bottles a day. 10cents a bottle get two cents back. Tried a bottle when I went back about 10 years ago and
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I used to drink that @$%# religiously as a 9-10yo kid. Would have like 2-3 bottles a day. 10cents a bottle get two cents back. Tried a bottle when I went back about 10 years ago and
Pete
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I used to drink that @$%# religiously as a 9-10yo kid. Would have like 2-3 bottles a day. 10cents a bottle get two cents back. Tried a bottle when I went back about 10 years ago and
My first experience with it was on a cold January evening. I picked up a pizza in downtown Bath and saw it in the drink cooler so I grabbed one, figured I would try it. I was driving home and I took a swig while driving down the road. It hit me like a swig of skunk ass.
It was the most vile liquid ever. I started to turn green I hurriedly tried to roll down the window so I could expel it. Unfortunately the window was frozen shut and I couldn't roll it down. As the tears welled up and my gag reflex kicked in I began to wretch and had to search for a place to pull over to spit that nasty crap out. I ended up opening the door and spewing it out while the car was still moving and it splattered along the side of my car where it immediately froze. 
donbarzini
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My first experience with it was on a cold January evening. I picked up a pizza in downtown Bath and saw it in the drink cooler so I grabbed one, figured I would try it. I was driving home and I took a swig while driving down the road. It hit me like a swig of skunk ass.
People at work just looked at me like I was crazy 'cause I started laughing so hard I was cryin................That stuff is just vile.
donbarzini
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Still trying to talk the wife into retiring back there......No luck so far. She's southern md born and bred.
Pete
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You have lost your ever lovin mind! Go visit, buy a cabin and go in the summer but retire up there?
donbarzini
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Should have phrased that better. That's exactly my plan(hope). Summers up there. Winters.......elsewhere
donbarzini
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Another Maine delicasy I am sure you would enjoy are "fiddleheads". MMMMMMMM mmmmmmm
you gotta stop!
About 2/3 up the coast Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park. If you're bringing bikes, there are lots of place to ride then in Acadia and many people also get around Bar Harbor that way. Bring bug spray though. The mosquitos are big enough to pick you up and carry you away. Also, if you're the warm weather loving type, you might not even need shorts. I usually go in July and every year I wonder why I lug shorts, swimwear and tank tops.
Pete
Repete
A nice steaming bowl of fiddleheads washed down with a luke warm Moxie on a balmy February evening in the pitch dark at 4 in the afternoon. It just don't get no better than that.
Pete
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donbarzini
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A nice steaming bowl of fiddleheads washed down with a luke warm Moxie on a balmy February evening in the pitch dark at 4 in the afternoon. It just don't get no better than that.
You're a sick, sick man
Pete
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You're a sick, sick man
All these fond memories make me wonder why I like Maine so much.
SoMDGirl42
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The mosquitos have black fly fighter escort.
The black flies will pick you AND your bike up and deliver you back to Maryland. Take LOTS of Avon Skin so soft or your lymph nodes will swell up so big you'll look like Frankenstein!
Don't forget the Maine (hee hee) attraction, the State Prison. The first time I was told I just had to go visit the prison I thought they were joking. They actually have a very interesting store at the prison where all the art work and crafts are made by the inmates. They had some beautiful pieces. We would go back every 6 months or so to see the new stuff. It's a shame that all that talent was wasted. I bought alot of really neat stuff; benches, toy boxes, homemade toys, a hope chest. Make sure you tell all your friends you're going to Maine to visit family that lives there, and snap a few pics of you outside of the prison.
Bar Harbour is OK, if you can see anything through the fog that comes in almost daily. And don't pack for July/August temperatures here. We camped in Bar Harbour in mid August and nearly froze to death. Average temp was about 40 degrees.
Freeport has the shopping strip with name brand discount stores. LL Bean is neat to visit, they have an indoor pond with bass.
Old Orchard Beach (further south) is a neat little beach town.
SoMDGirl42
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Oh and you have to get a case of the original Maine soft drink. It is called Moxie, drink it warm and chug it.
I bought my first Shih Tzu from a breeder in Portland. She used to name the litter after different items. His litter were all named after soda. My dog was originally named Moxie
. I immediately changed his name to Gizmo. RIP Gizmo, I miss you buddy.
Pete
Repete
The state prison in Thomaston. It is actually gone, they closed it in 2000 or so and tore it down. The store was in an old building in front of it but I am not sure it is still a store. I bought a bunch of stuff there too back in the day.
The best deal is the LL Bean Factory store down the block from the retail store. A lot of good deals there.
Old Orchard Beach is cool just don't go when the French-Canadian tourists from Quebec are there.
Speedoville
Hessian
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Imho...
Best beach: Ogunquit---Cool town too: not far up the coast, kinda touristy, The beach stretches for miles with a brook that feeds from a marsh behind it.
Tides make acres of sand appear and vanish in a few hours. Sandy. I would go slightly early (Pre mid June) before NE schools let out for summer. 2 mile cliff walk south of town to a fishing village.
Best Light: Pemiquid (It is on the Maine qtr)...a little isolated, neat rock formations, good wildlife, inexpensive & picturesque.
Best Island: Monhegan: Take a shuttle out for a 45 minute trek to this Atlantic beauty: Trails, views, crashing surf, cranky locals:it is preserved, very few old vehicles Very historic.
Best Antiques: Belfast...do NOT try driving through on a Saturday!!
Best River for Kayaking: Androscoggin & Kennebeck
Best View: Cadillac mountain on Acadia
Best Museum: Augusta
This list will be altered again when I go up in June (for the 40th time)-renting a home not far from Acadia.
COOL story: After sadly packing up and driving out of Maine a few summers back we realized we were behind a Marylander on the Turnpike: We hit the toll booths down in NH and we followed them through it: ......THEY PAID FOR OUR TOLL!! How cool was that!
Best beach: Ogunquit---Cool town too: not far up the coast, kinda touristy, The beach stretches for miles with a brook that feeds from a marsh behind it.
Tides make acres of sand appear and vanish in a few hours. Sandy. I would go slightly early (Pre mid June) before NE schools let out for summer. 2 mile cliff walk south of town to a fishing village.
Best Light: Pemiquid (It is on the Maine qtr)...a little isolated, neat rock formations, good wildlife, inexpensive & picturesque.
Best Island: Monhegan: Take a shuttle out for a 45 minute trek to this Atlantic beauty: Trails, views, crashing surf, cranky locals:it is preserved, very few old vehicles Very historic.
Best Antiques: Belfast...do NOT try driving through on a Saturday!!
Best River for Kayaking: Androscoggin & Kennebeck
Best View: Cadillac mountain on Acadia
Best Museum: Augusta
This list will be altered again when I go up in June (for the 40th time)-renting a home not far from Acadia.
COOL story: After sadly packing up and driving out of Maine a few summers back we realized we were behind a Marylander on the Turnpike: We hit the toll booths down in NH and we followed them through it: ......THEY PAID FOR OUR TOLL!! How cool was that!
Dye Tied
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COOL story: After sadly packing up and driving out of Maine a few summers back we realized we were behind a Marylander on the Turnpike: We hit the toll booths down in NH and we followed them through it: ......THEY PAID FOR OUR TOLL!! How cool was that!
I'll bet they were originally New Englanders... Md. people aren't that gracious