So I live in the UK but I'm coming to America in April I'm a lifelong fan of Mr King and feel as though I already know Maine in a dreamy kind of way! Can anyone give me any advice where to stay and visit etc? I'm so excited!!!
Things to do in Maine?!....
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...I have been there...it is BEAUTIFUL...not sure what you're looking to do, but Bangor has many places to stay and eat-it's all individual choice...the downtown is chock full of eclectic places to shop...and the SK bus tour is very entertaining....use this link for more fleshed out detail....
Greater Bangor CVB
Greater Bangor CVB
Thank you for the advice. I'll be sure to check that link out. I've been watching a show on Netflix.
Apparently Maine has the best water in the world! Maybe I'll bottle some and take it home.
Maybe I'll start belting out bestselling novels!
Apparently Maine has the best water in the world! Maybe I'll bottle some and take it home.
Maybe I'll start belting out bestselling novels!
You can build an underground clubhouse. You can cause a flooding of the river and get Officer Nell ticked off. I would prefer to stay a night in the standpipe though.
Sorry to say that I was soo close. Went by on the way to Novia Scotia. I did hit some of the other New England states thou.
On any account they were lovely, with the shores and lighthouses and funky towns
On any account they were lovely, with the shores and lighthouses and funky towns
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You could eat some lobster (lobstrocities?) as apparently East coast lobsters are very tastySo I live in the UK but I'm coming to America in April I'm a lifelong fan of Mr King and feel as though I already know Maine in a dreamy kind of way! Can anyone give me any advice where to stay and visit etc? I'm so excited!!!
...The Standpipe is quite imposing when "right up close" even for someone of my mutant stature....
I’ve always avoided Maine for health reasons. I’ve found some of the women there can be quite malicious and scary at times. Apparently some even have chainsaws and wood-chippers... and aren’t afraid to use them.
...and they're embarrassed when bumrushed by a GNT and publicly smooched...I’ve always avoided Maine for health reasons. I’ve found some of the women there can be quite malicious and scary at times. Apparently some even have chainsaws and wood-chippers... and aren’t afraid to use them.
Or better yet, box some of that snow up from the back yard (I'm 99.9% sure we'll still have plenty) like that guy who's selling it in Boston, and take it with you!
Any way you could put off coming until a little later, say after mid-May? April is not a particularly nice time of year weather-wise in Maine on the best of years and this year I have a feeling spring will be coming even later than usual. What sorts of things were you hoping to see/do, i.e. are you trying to see things that are directly related to Steve's books or just visit places of interest in Maine?So I live in the UK but I'm coming to America in April I'm a lifelong fan of Mr King and feel as though I already know Maine in a dreamy kind of way! Can anyone give me any advice where to stay and visit etc? I'm so excited!!!
I'd like to visit some of the places from the books...I'll avoid wearing yellow macs and sticking my arms down drains. I'll avoid capturing well known authors and enslaving them and slopping buckets off wee on them ; )
I'd like to visit Nova Scotia but that would be a Trailer Park Boy trip ; )
Isn't Tess Gerritson also from Maine? Definitely something in the water!
Isn't Tess Gerritson also from Maine? Definitely something in the water!
Yes, she lives here as do several other authors, some not quite as well-known as either Steve or Tess Gerritsen.
I’ve always avoided Maine for health reasons. I’ve found some of the women there can be quite malicious and scary at times. Apparently some even have chainsaws and wood-chippers... and aren’t afraid to use them.
I have a friend that needed to avoid Maine for health reasons too.
Here is an extremely truncated version:This was about 20 years ago - My friend, Brian is a chef and was single then and used to work the resort restaurants, winters in Florida and summers in Maine. Brian broke up with his girlfriend in Florida and she turned into a bit of a stalker. Brian then started dating a lady in Maine and she came with her own ex-boyfriend stalker. He was a bit on the dangerous side too. We howl laughing about this now but at the time, it was a little scary. He was never sure what either one of his stalkers was going to do. It took a couple of years to shake the stalkers.
Wow that's pretty messed up! That could make a good story in itself...the stalkers could of met one another and lived happily ever after ; )
Yeah and you can go to the place with some of the best seafood in the world and have pizza like the Giant did... LOL
My favorite places were the Lake Pushaw campgrounds, Acadia National Park, Deer Isle (Stonington) and walking around Orono along the river.
I wanted to get up north and see the glacier ice caves, but didn't make it.
I wanted to get up north and see the glacier ice caves, but didn't make it.