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For many, Wiscasset Maine is yet another pretty mid-coast town but the main reason many people stop here (including us) is Red’s Eats. Red’s or Bust We like virtually everybody who visits mid-coast Maine, and/or loves lobster rolls, prays at the altar of Red’s Eats on Route 1 in Wiscasset. Red’s is certainly an unlikely […]
Updated 2021 Monhegan Island is a roughly one-square-mile island in Maine is about nine miles off of the Maine coast. It is a rustic artist and tourist paradise with beautiful views and hiking trails that climb most of the 200-foot bluffs that overlook the ocean. While one can stay on the island, we generally go […]
One way to get from Nova Scotia to New England is to travel from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia to Portland, Maine via the NovaStar ferry, a lo-o-o-ng (10-hour) sea journey. While many people use the ferry to transport their cars, as well as themselves, we left one rental car in Yarmouth and picked up another in […]
Mount Desert Island (or MDI) Maine is truly God’s Country. It is the sixth-largest island in the contiguous United States, and the third-largest on the Eastern Seaboard. Its main small towns are Bar Harbor, Northeast Harbor, Southwest Harbor, and Bass Harbor. Our ten favorite things to do in the area are: #1: Chill Out Chill […]
After leaving Portland, toward our Boston July 4 rendezvous with friends, we took a very quick, painfully brief, reminiscent spin through a couple of our favorite Southern Maine towns. Our first “stop” was a drive (with about our only stops being for traffic) through one of the prettiest towns in Southern Maine—Kennebunkport. Although Kennebunkport is […]
We love the Maine coast, especially the mid-coast, Camden, Rockland, Rockport area. After numerous years of trial and error from many visits to this area, we have our favorite restaurants in the area. The dilemma was that we were in the area for Joyce’s birthday and she (and I) wanted to find a special birthday-type […]