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I bought my Maine home

So @Bok Tuklo , where are you and what kind of place did you buy? Don't just saw, "Maine" and leave us hanging! Will you be there all year long? I recently read an article about how many newcomers make it past a year, although everyone I know who moved there stayed. My best friend has been there for many years. She is in the Rockland/Rockport area.
 
Bok Tuklo said:
Goodbye Texas!

Well … after I sell my house here.
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Whereabouts? Portland or elsewhere? I lived downeast for 25 years--it's where my family is from. If I get away from the coast, it's like a different country to me. Interesting places, though. Up around Baxter Park and hiking the trails around Katahdin Iron Works is very nice. Aroostook County is open and farmland (famous for potatoes). Thoreau wrote a book about visiting Katahdin--it's called The Maine Woods. If you go Downeast in August, don't miss the Blueberry Festival and a performance of the Blueberry Blues. Silly skit made up each year by the performers and wonderful music. There's talent down there. Acadia National Park is beautiful; there is often a bottleneck of traffic getting to the island, but it isn't mostly for the park--you'd find it relaxing.

Maybe you already know all this. Winter is lonnnngggg up there, but summer makes up for it.
 
NewfieMom said:
So @Bok Tuklo , where are you and what kind of place did you buy? Don't just saw, "Maine" and leave us hanging! Will you be there all year long? I recently read an article about how many newcomers make it past a year, although everyone I know who moved there stayed. My best friend has been there for many years. She is in the Rockland/Rockport area.
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I love the Wyeth Museum there and nearby the Olson farmhouse that he often painted.
 
Ganondagan said:
There's a lot to love about Maine. There's a lot to love about all of the northeast, actually, all the way from Maine down through Pennsylvania. I consider that entire area as being where I belong.
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I feel the same about central Appalachia.

Born and raised in northeast Pennsylvania.

But currently live on the mountain side of the line separating Piedmont North Carolina from Appalachian North Carolina.
 
Congratulations! I hope your move goes well. There's a lot of details to attend to. It can be a lot of work.
 
NewfieMom said:
So @Bok Tuklo , where are you and what kind of place did you buy? Don't just saw, "Maine" and leave us hanging! Will you be there all year long? I recently read an article about how many newcomers make it past a year, although everyone I know who moved there stayed. My best friend has been there for many years. She is in the Rockland/Rockport area.
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I will be living there permanently. In Lewiston (Dirty Lew!) about a block from Bates College. An unmolested 1930s home. I am a sucker for old homes that have been maintained, not updated.

It is not a vacation home. As far as anyone is concerned, until I sell it, my Texas home is my vacation home.
 
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phoenix2020 said:
Congrats! I used to spend summers doing research on Mount Desert Island when I was in school, and they were the best summers of my young life.
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My daughter had her appendix removed at Mount Desert Island Hospital the summer that she was five. I roomed in with her. We all loved Acadia National Park, but that summer vacation spent mostly at the hospital was our most memorable one in Maine.
 
Bok Tuklo said:
Goodbye Texas!

Well … after I sell my house here.
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Congrats. Think you'll love it. When you're settled in, there's so many beautiful spots, menus, and people within an hours drive. Everyone should do Acadia, but a good day might include Wolfe's Neck, south of Freeport. Osprey watching there is a delight, plus it's dog friendly.
 
One of our favorite vacation destinations. From Acadia to down east. Visiting A fiddle fest in Ogunquit was one we will always remember.
 
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