{"id":558,"date":"2008-05-08T11:53:32","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T18:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=558"},"modified":"2008-06-02T21:09:53","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T04:09:53","slug":"50_states_maine_9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/08\/50_states_maine_9.html","title":{"rendered":"50 States: Maine (9)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/2437414395\/\" title=\"50 States: Maine by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3250\/2437414395_dffca4b4f6.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" alt=\"50 States: Maine\" \/><\/a><BR><BR>I took this photo in the summer of 2002, when I went up to Hancock, near Mt. Desert Island, to stay with George and his family for the weekend.  I had been up to Maine a few other times in the previous year, visiting George twice in Bangor as he did his clerkship, and also checking out Northeast Historic Film in Bucksport.<\/p>\n<p>I think Hancock represents the furthest-north point in Maine I&#8217;ve been to, but over the years, starting with Scott&#8217;s college-hunting trip in the early &#8217;90s, I&#8217;ve visited Brunswick, Waterville, Lewiston, Rockport, Freeport, Bath, Camden, and, of course, Portland.  It&#8217;s always nice to get up to Maine, which felt to me the most like Alaska of any place I&#8217;d been to in the Lower 48, beautiful and remote and mostly empty. In Alaska, there&#8217;s no 24-hour L.L. Bean flagship store, where you can return your eight year-old backpack because the zipper finally broke and walk out with a brand-new one, and there are no roadside dairy barns and lobster shacks, but still, there are some similarities.  Portland always seemed like a nice alternative to Boston when thinking about places to live on the East Coast, a city in the context of Maine, but a pretty small and pleasant one.  Aimee and I had a couple of nice weekend trips to Portland, and it never failed to be a great destination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took this photo in the summer of 2002, when I went up to Hancock, near Mt. Desert Island, to stay with George and his family for the weekend. I had been up to Maine a few other times in the previous year, visiting George twice in Bangor as he did his clerkship, and also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-travel","tag-50states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}