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"Seal of the State of Maine"
I just returned from a one-week vacation to my home state of Maine. Yes Gods country where there is still a lot of untamed land yet to be explored. A land where the young can still find solitude to use their imagination to wonder on all of lifes unsolved mysteries. A land where strangers will take the time to answer your questions in detail, and if need be to go out of their way to explain the unexplainable, Yes" you can get there from here.
I took a cruise on the Casco Bay lines one morning with a blind friend of mine. The wind was a bit raw for this time of year especially to my thin Florida blood. After living in Florida for ten years, my blood has thinned out considerably. However, the boat ride was well worth the minor cold wind I had to endure.
I visited many of my relatives and old friends who treated me like royalty, which is only customary and the typical Maine hospitality. Where the people talk to their representatives by addressing them on a first name basis, the way it should be. In fact, if you're driving into the State of Maine as you enter the state you're greeted with a welcome sign which reads "Welcome to Maine The way life should be."
Of course, the state of Maine is far from being a Utopian form of lifestyle and has its share of problems and of course, crime in the streets is a reality however in a recent survey on the finest states in the country to raise children Maine was considered the number one choice of all 50 states.
I myself being born and raised in the state of Maine and returning on a vacation, a fill of seafood was a must. From its famous Maine lobster to steam clams, crab-meat, fried clams, scallops. Oh, yes especially living in the southern part of the state by the ocean we were all weaned on seafood.
Enjoying my lobsters
As a young child, I began at 12 years old going on hunting trips way up north in the allagash woods. My younger brother and I would take a week off from school at the beginning of hunting season to take the trip up country with our older brother. We stay in in an old lumberjacks cabin were we would rough it out for a whole week.
" The allagash wilderness"
I only spent one week on vacation so of course I couldn't do all I wanted to do or see all the people and places I wanted to see. However, I had a good time and enjoyed my vacation very much and I'm looking forward to another week or maybe two weeks next year to return to my old stomping grounds.
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