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Robert Gray

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Three years ago my wife and I got married and spent our honeymoon in Maine. Our trip, not surprisingly, included Mt. Desert Island (Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, etc.), Bangor and the surrounding area. We had a wonderful time and had already made up our minds that Maine was where we intend to build our future and likely spend the rest of our lives. It has taken three years to put a lot of ducks in a row and now we are preparing for the move. Next week (our anniversary week) we will be returning to Maine, and Bangor in particular, to scout out houses and apartments for our move. It will be a real treat going back to Derry and we will take many pictures and videos. If anyone wants some specific shots of a location from their favorite book, let us know.

*We posted this here in the It section since that book contains the most views of Derry, but I suppose we should have posted this in the other novel sections wherein the city is showcased.
 

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Three years ago my wife and I got married and spent our honeymoon in Maine. Our trip, not surprisingly, included Mt. Desert Island (Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, etc.), Bangor and the surrounding area. We had a wonderful time and had already made up our minds that Maine was where we intend to build our future and likely spend the rest of our lives. It has taken three years to put a lot of ducks in a row and now we are preparing for the move. Next week (our anniversary week) we will be returning to Maine, and Bangor in particular, to scout out houses and apartments for our move. It will be a real treat going back to Derry and we will take many pictures and videos. If anyone wants some specific shots of a location from their favorite book, let us know.

*We posted this here in the It section since that book contains the most views of Derry, but I suppose we should have posted this in the other novel sections wherein the city is showcased.
WTG! And congratulations on anniversary, as well as moving to a beautiful locale.
 

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Three years ago my wife and I got married and spent our honeymoon in Maine. Our trip, not surprisingly, included Mt. Desert Island (Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, etc.), Bangor and the surrounding area. We had a wonderful time and had already made up our minds that Maine was where we intend to build our future and likely spend the rest of our lives. It has taken three years to put a lot of ducks in a row and now we are preparing for the move. Next week (our anniversary week) we will be returning to Maine, and Bangor in particular, to scout out houses and apartments for our move. It will be a real treat going back to Derry and we will take many pictures and videos. If anyone wants some specific shots of a location from their favorite book, let us know.

*We posted this here in the It section since that book contains the most views of Derry, but I suppose we should have posted this in the other novel sections wherein the city is showcased.
I look forward to seeing your photos Robert Gray - I hope all goes well with the move - sounds wonderful :love:
 

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Three years ago my wife and I got married and spent our honeymoon in Maine. Our trip, not surprisingly, included Mt. Desert Island (Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, etc.), Bangor and the surrounding area. We had a wonderful time and had already made up our minds that Maine was where we intend to build our future and likely spend the rest of our lives. It has taken three years to put a lot of ducks in a row and now we are preparing for the move. Next week (our anniversary week) we will be returning to Maine, and Bangor in particular, to scout out houses and apartments for our move. It will be a real treat going back to Derry and we will take many pictures and videos. If anyone wants some specific shots of a location from their favorite book, let us know.

*We posted this here in the It section since that book contains the most views of Derry, but I suppose we should have posted this in the other novel sections wherein the city is showcased.

So is your wife a fan of Stephen King's stories, too? I imagine she must be. Anything you'd like to post is a plus. 29 Neibolt Street. The river. The bridge. The Barrens. My wife and I have talked about visiting Maine since neither of us has been there...maybe throw in a pic of the local Goodwill store...as my wife doesn't read King but she does like to shop Goodwill. Thank you! And congratulations and best wishes for your new future!
 

Robert Gray

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Looking forward to seeing this come together. May I ask where you are moving from? I'm in the south and winter is an entirely different thing here. I think it would be shocking for me.

Texas... as in deep in the heart of... about as close to the center of Texas as you can get. But both my wife and I have lived in other places from time to time and we like the cold. I think it less a shock to us as the heat is to those who come down here.
 

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Texas... as in deep in the heart of... about as close to the center of Texas as you can get. But both my wife and I have lived in other places from time to time and we like the cold. I think it less a shock to us as the heat is to those who come down here.
I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Robert. Check out our stats for weather. Sometimes it gets so cold here we get warnings from the weather network saying "Due to wind chill, exposed skin can freeze in less than two minutes".
Hey - I am on old fogey (over 50) and yet I survive!

I think you will do just fine! (Go over to Miss Mod's place and borrow some firewood) :)

p.s. my hubby is up in Baker Lake, Nunavut working and it gets even colder up there. He is 60 this year - I am not actually sure how he stands the extreme temps
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Texas... as in deep in the heart of... about as close to the center of Texas as you can get. But both my wife and I have lived in other places from time to time and we like the cold. I think it less a shock to us as the heat is to those who come down here.
Mercy, you are used to warmer temps than I am . Best of luck to you and your wife on your adventure. Sounds like fun!
 

Robert Gray

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So is your wife a fan of Stephen King's stories, too? I imagine she must be.

Believe it or not, before we got married she had never read one of his books. She is an avid reader, devours books. She reads more than I do. She isn't into horror though, not in books or movies. They scare the crap out of her and give her bad dreams. I told her that reading Sai King's books are worth it, and I explained to her that I don't think labeling him as a horror writer is really correct. Even though his books are often scary, they are about so much more. I started her out with with It, and now she has read everything I have. She joined us among the ranks of the "Constant Reader." She just finished 11/22/63 the other day.

Anything you'd like to post is a plus. 29 Neibolt Street.

I'll be interested to see if this is a real place myself. I suspect the address is fictional but the house and train yard, so distinctly described, have a counterpart. We will look for it. :D There are enough landmarks in the book to find out if there is a correlative house or not.

The river. The bridge. The Barrens.

These are all there. I still have pictures of them from last time and will take a lot more. I can add the Standpipe, the place where the Bradleys were shot down, plastic, Tall Pall and so many more. Interestingly enough there is even a bar that we suspect is the location near the bus station downtown that must be the correlative to The Falcon, although we didn't go inside last time to see if there are any stuffed birds up.

My wife and I have talked about visiting Maine since neither of us has been there...maybe throw in a pic of the local Goodwill store...as my wife doesn't read King but she does like to shop Goodwill. Thank you! And congratulations and best wishes for your new future!

I know it is a bit out of the way but it is worth the trip. I'll see what I can do, as I'm sure there is a Goodwill Store somewhere; they are ubiquitous.
 

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Believe it or not, before we got married she had never read one of his books. She is an avid reader, devours books. She reads more than I do. She isn't into horror though, not in books or movies. They scare the crap out of her and give her bad dreams. I told her that reading Sai King's books are worth it, and I explained to her that I don't think labeling him as a horror writer is really correct. Even though his books are often scary, they are about so much more. I started her out with with It, and now she has read everything I have. She joined us among the ranks of the "Constant Reader." She just finished 11/22/63 the other day.



I'll be interested to see if this is a real place myself. I suspect the address is fictional but the house and train yard, so distinctly described, have a counterpart. We will look for it. :D There are enough landmarks in the book to find out if there is a correlative house or not.



These are all there. I still have pictures of them from last time and will take a lot more. I can add the Standpipe, the place where the Bradleys were shot down, plastic, Tall Pall and so many more. Interestingly enough there is even a bar that we suspect is the location near the bus station downtown that must be the correlative to The Falcon, although we didn't go inside last time to see if there are any stuffed birds up.



I know it is a bit out of the way but it is worth the trip. I'll see what I can do, as I'm sure there is a Goodwill Store somewhere; they are ubiquitous.
Neibolt Street is fictional but I don't remember if Steve has ever mentioned what the equivalent is, if there really is one.

The Goodwill Store is on Stillwater Avenue in the Bangor Mall area. It's a very popular one and I've heard you can get some good deals there. I haven't been there myself in years as it's a bit hard to get in/out of their parking lot. An acquaintance of mine found a copy of Six Stories there for $1 which she then sold on Ebay for $1,000. I knew the person it had belonged to. He had passed away and the family by mistake packed it up with other books for donation to Goodwill not realizing what they had done. I heard all of this after the fact along with some of the drama of the family wanting the person who'd bought it to give them the money. She didn't.
 

Robert Gray

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Neibolt Street is fictional but I don't remember if Steve has ever mentioned what the equivalent is, if there really is one.

The Goodwill Store is on Stillwater Avenue in the Bangor Mall area. It's a very popular one and I've heard you can get some good deals there. I haven't been there myself in years as it's a bit hard to get in/out of their parking lot. An acquaintance of mine found a copy of Six Stories there for $1 which she then sold on Ebay for $1,000. I knew the person it had belonged to. He had passed away and the family by mistake packed it up with other books for donation to Goodwill not realizing what they had done. I heard all of this after the fact along with some of the drama of the family wanting the person who'd bought it to give them the money. She didn't.

I look forward to seeing it. We bargain shop at the Goodwills down here for books all the time. You never know what you will find. I also appreciate all the help/info on the side.
 

Robert Gray

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Well there are a couple of bridges in Bangor and none of them look like that... or at least I haven't seen one like that yet. We will take some pictures of the local bridges when we do. We did get our apartment today, wherein we will dwell for some time until we buy a house. We now live on Main Street in Maine. We found that pretty amusing. Ms. Mod was a big help and it was nice to see her again. It has been raining pretty solidly since we hit the state. Since we arrived in Portland for our drive up to Bangor around midnight on Tuesday we, quite literally, got to say "it was a dark and stormy night as the couple drove the rural roads into Derry."