This is my first post here. I've beening reading a lot and have told several family members about this site while on a recent trip there. I even filled in my profile, such as it is. Hopefully, I can add some insight here and help with any questions about the great state of Maine.
In another Forum, I just reported my trip back with some pictures and one of the reply's came from someone in Florida. Here is what he said and my response.
(I can post some pictures here or in the 'Pictures of Maine' thread if requested)
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He said: "Awesome pictures, that place is absolutely beautiful this time of year.
So why are "they" all down here????"
My reply was: "That's funny and true. I know Dover-Foxcroft goes from about 3 thousand people in the winter to about 6-7 thousand in the summer. Although most of "they" are from away, anyways.
In Florida, when winter rolls around, all you have to do is ask someone where they are from and if they say Maine, the only reply needed is, "Oh, I understand."
Must be in the national psyche. I tell poeple around Sacramento that Maine is mostly like South Lake Tahoe's winter weather, without the snow. Maines snowmobile season has been kind of short lately.
But if you ask any family member, they'll take the cold and postpone the snow as long as they can. When getting into Maine last week, it snowed enough to cover the ground for me and go away the next day. They were all a little bummed that it was coming down so early in the season. I have a sister and a brother and a cousin that have all just relocated BACK to Maine from over 20 years on the west coast. They all have 'dug in' nicely. And each year that I go back to visit, they get better at it. A comination of heating sources too. From wood, to pettets, to heating oil, to propane to electric and gas.
It is one of the most difficult times of the year in Maine because of the severly cold evenings and short daylight. It is a challenge to live in any cold winter climate which Maine shares with many other regions. And now the house heating bills with increased fuel prices will make it harder. I have family that lives in an 1850's built house and a 25 yo log cabin that was built by a family member now deceased that was a little bit eccentric. And another brother that lives in a '30's built house close by. Not to mention the dozens of other close relatives who have always lived there. Plus, relatives in PEI, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Some of them from Newfy visit down south to Dover when it gets too cold up there. I guess it's all relatives, I mean relative."
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And now to today, I can only say that Maine is someplace that can get into your blood very quickly. I plan on building a cabin in Dover-Foxcroft in the next couple of years on family property right on the ITS trail system. I have many friends out west who have never been to Maine and I want to have a place to host them. With the usual toys of sleds, mules, rangers, atv's and boats.
Of course they might want to rent a motorcycle too. I can show them several routes to take from the central state.
I can't resist. Here's one picture on the way to Kokadjo:
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Just Returned From Thanksgiving In Maine
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