And hello, hello, hello, dear listeners!
Thank you so much for dedicating your time
and listening to me rambling about things
for minutes, sometimes hours, sometimes I could ramble
about a lot of stuff. So
anyways, let's get to it. Today I will talk about my
road trip to Maine,
throughout Maine and around Maine.
So Maine is located close to Canada
on the East Coast.
It is a such a beautiful state.
Oh my God, like...
So I was not expecting Maine to be what it was.
Yes, they have a bunch of lobsters there.
But I was kind of expecting younger crowd.
So when I came in there,
there was a bunch of older folks,
which is totally fine. Like I actually feel way more comfortable
with either like kids or younger,
I mean older generation than me.
It's weird, I know. I don't really get along with people my age
just because like we have different interests.
But yeah, anyways, I came there, a bunch of older folks.
Everybody seems happy, everybody was super friendly.
I don't know, maybe people are friendly because I'm a pretty girl or something, but anyways.
Everybody was friendly.
I flew in from Savannah, which is my base, home base,
to Portland, Maine.
It's not the capital.
Augusta is the capital of Maine, but Portland
is gorgeous city, it's a gorgeous town,
and I thought it was the capital, but it wasn't. So yeah.
I arrived in Portland around 2 o'clock,
and the airport itself was kind of small.
But yeah, so...
It's fine because I did not get lost,
like I usually do at the airports.
And yeah, so I arrived, went to get my rental car,
which was actually like literally like you walk out of the airport
and walk into the rental place.
It was super easy because usually the shuttle,
the airport shuttle takes you to the rental place,
but no, this was actually super convenient.
So walked in there, got my car,
and I'm like, okay, where the heck am I going?
Because I actually for the first time ever,
I did not book a hotel.
So I was just kind of going with the flow,
which is not what I usually do.
I usually have like everything planned.
I'm a Virgo, I'm a planner, like I have to be organized,
otherwise I'm going to go crazy.
But that did not happen, thank God.
So I started driving to the lighthouse.
I went to the Portland Lighthouse, beautiful area.
You guys should check it out.
So I went to the Noble Night...
Sorry, Noble Lighthouse it's called.
Oh my God, that's...
It's not even a tongue twister, but...
And oh my goodness, it was gorgeous.
So I basically got out of the car
and I was by this coast
and there were gigantic waves
and like the smell of the sea just...
It just gets into your nostrils.
And I love the smell of the ocean
because I grew up near the ocean.
So it's kind of familiar territory.
It's a safe territory for me.
Like I always feel at home when I'm by the ocean.
Which is...
It makes sense of why my mom traveled to the coast
because she grew up with the ocean.
Anyways, yeah, and I took a bunch of pictures.
I asked random strangers to take my pictures too,
which is great because I need more socializing.
So, you know, if you ever want to socialize,
email me, message me, contact me on socials.
Then after that I pretty much went around other lighthouses
and I went to get some lobster.
Even though I'm supposed to be vegan,
but still lobster, you gotta try it.
So I went to the first place.
It was kind of fancy.
It was a resort and they had restaurant there.
And it was Mother's Day.
So I'm like, oh, fuck.
Like everything was booked.
So I went to another one.
That one, the second place was kind of like a diner type of thing,
but it was a super popular diner.
The wait was an hour.
So I'm like, okay, I went to this fancy kind of restaurant,
but at the same time it's like very cozy.
It has a chill vibe and they had they instantly set me.
I went outside.
I sat on the porch.
It was amazing.
Like their lobster was squishy.
Like you could taste the sea.
You could kind of taste what the lobster came from.
I don't know.
It sounds weird, but if you're a chef,
you would know what I'm talking about.
But and the food was good.
So yeah, so I did that.
And then I stayed in a hotel.
Where the heck did I stay at?
Anyways, I stayed in a hotel.
Somehow.
I don't know why I don't remember, but anyways, I was tired.
And so I stayed at the hotel.
The next day I got up and I left around like 6 in the morning
just because I like to wake up early.
I like to explore.
So I went to the Booth Bay Harbor a few minutes away from Portland
and went to explore downtown.
I explored the harbor itself.
There was lots of yachts, lots of boats,
and it reminded me a lot of Beford, which is a town about an hour
or 30 minutes away from Savannah.
And it looks so much like it.
I don't know.
Yeah, and I drove to Mount Desert Island.
Basically, I was driving to the Acadian National Park,
which is not that far.
So basically Maine, guess how many hours it takes to get from one
end to another.
It takes four hours, only four hours.
I used to drive to college for five hours, but this was like,
I'm like, oh my God, I have to be here for five days.
I'm going to explore everything.
And yes, I was driving to Acadia and then I saw this tall ass bridge
and I could see people on the top of the bridge.
So I'm like, oh, how did they get there?
Like I want to go up there.
So I went there and it turned out that you could get on top of the bridge
by an escalator cost like five bucks to get there.
And yeah, so I did that.
You know, spontaneous decisions lead to awesome pictures and great memories.
And then I went to one of the forts, one of the historic forts.
And I don't know whether I was sleep deprived or something,
but I just pretended to run around the fort and I kind of started feeling
like a kid because like at that fort, that fort might have been haunted.
But I was just like running like a kid exploring, like getting into the very
tight spaces between the walls and recording videos, making lots of photos.
And then I went to a nearby city, Belfast.
There's a movie called Belfast.
You guys should check it out.
It's great.
So Belfast is also very small town.
They have a very small downtown area.
It's like one of those towns.
What do they call them?
Witness protection.
They go to one of these small towns to escape from the law from like bad guys
because like, yeah, nobody would find you there.
So anyways, it's really cute town.
I mean, you could go up there.
Like I kind of recommend it, but you would not miss much if you would not go there.
So I would recommend driving along the coastline, the coastline of Maine.
Acadia National Park.
Google it.
And so because I did not, I didn't really Google it.
I did buy a ticket.
I had.
So Acadia National Park is not just a park you could drive to and that's like the
whole park.
Apparently, it has it's a biggest area full of different parks.
To which you can explore like you could camp there.
Yada yada.
So Google Acadia National Park.
I would say definitely that should definitely be on your list.
It has a bunch of cool views.
You would love it.
Like I don't care if you love to travel.
I'm sure you will love it.
Although it was really windy.
It was like 50 degrees when I went to the top of it.
Cadillac Mountain is called.
I went to the top of the Cadillac Mountain.
The view was just gorgeous.
It's I'm like I could just stare at the view all day.
That's how beautiful it was.
And yeah, so Cadillac Mountain is a part of Acadia National Park and the reason
why it's called Cadillac is because of the rocks pink color.
It's not neon pink.
It's like very I don't know.
I don't know how to explain it.
It's not really pink though.
But the the mountain the way that mountain had formed is from volcanic
eruption.
So I was like standing on the part of history.
So after I explored all of the Acadia Park, I tried to find a place to sleep and
all the hotels were super busy because they were booked because people come to
Acadia Park.
It's like one of the national treasures of Maine apparently.
And of course the hotels were like expensive.
They weren't too expensive, but I'm like, well, I'll just find something nearby.
And I did not and I was like, I'm tired.
It's 8 o'clock.
I do not want to drive in the dark.
So I just parked by the rest area and slept in the rental car, which was fine.
I slept in the car before it's it can get cold.
So which it did.
It did get cold, but it did not get cold up to four degrees like it did in Albuquerque.
It was cold maybe in like 60s.
So I'm cold when I'm when I'm in 60s weather.
I hate the cold.
But so I slept.
I somehow got some sleep and the next morning I went to the town of Lubec.
Yes.
And the Cutler Coast Public Reserve land that one was.
Oh my God.
That was gorgeous.
I basically let's see.
I was there maybe 9 in the morning and main gets hot like 70s hot.
So I was I went through this wooded area took me maybe almost an hour.
But the way that like you walk through the woods and you feel like you're in a fairy
tale like you're part of the story and you come to this huge open space that's kind of
covered by trees pine trees.
But then you come closer to the edge and you see the whole ocean like there's just like
you.
Yeah, I felt like I was in the Assassin's Creed and it's an amazing game.
So it's like one of my favorite games and is just beautiful.
Like it was just mesmerizing.
I took so many pictures.
I took videos.
I climbed some rocks even though I could have died, but it's fine.
It was a good time.
It's definitely probably one of the most gorgeous places I've been to and it's called Cutler
Coast Public Reserved land.
There we go.
And then after that I went to national another National Park.
I drove three and a half hours there.
Here's the thing.
I did not complain about the time after I drove from Moab to Savannah and back.
So three hours was nothing.
I was just enjoying the scenery.
I was listening to podcasts.
I was listening to music and so I drive there and the park is closed for the season.
I'm like, are you freaking kidding me?
It's May.
Why would it be closed?
Maybe they are open in summer only, but anyways, I drove there.
There were a bunch of mosquitoes.
I couldn't even park anywhere.
Well, no, I did park where I was not supposed to park and yeah, surprisingly I didn't get
in trouble.
So yay.
Then on the fourth day, day four, I'm like, well, oh yeah, I did stay in at the hotel
in Augusta.
I finally took a hot shower and finally rested on a very nice mattress, got some sleep and
then I'm like, oh fuck, I don't know where else to go because I pretty much drove throughout
Maine.
Like it does not take long enough long to drive to Maine.
Like it there's nothing to explore and I'm like, you know what?
New Hampshire is like two hours away.
So I drove there.
I'm like, I might as well.
I might as well go explore New Hampshire and it took an hour for me to get to New Hampshire.
Took an hour from New Hampshire to Vermont.
Bunch of older people, everybody's friendly.
It's super green.
It has all kinds of different colors.
It has mountains.
It has valleys and those are not big states.
So I'm like, I'm going to cross that off my bucket list.
And then I drove back the same day.
It did not take me long to explore those two states.
So yeah, and I stayed at this very cute hotel.
It's called Ogunquit River Inn and it's in the town of Ogunquit and it gave me like a
view of the river, view of the ocean.
I remember the receptionist was super nice.
I had to print something out and he's just like, yeah, there you go.
You can just use my computer because that one's broken.
I'm like, oh my God, thank you.
That's like super nice of you.
So I stayed at that hotel for two days.
I'm like, you know, this hotel is nice.
I don't want to stay anywhere else.
I'm just going to stay here until I have to leave.
So I did and I got to explore trails.
I got to explore more parks.
I went to one fort and yeah, I took lots of pictures and then the next day I went home
and then my flight from Maine to Atlanta got delayed by like four hours.
And I'm like, fuck, I'm going to miss my flight from Atlanta to Savannah.
But they rescheduled me actually later on because there was no way that I was going
to make my six o'clock flight when we were arriving at six o'clock.
So I'm like, that's fine.
I'll just sleep on the plane, you know, I'll nap.
Yeah, so it was no biggie.
I came home, I unpacked and then the next day I got my cats.
I spent time with my family and brought them a bunch of souvenirs.
So it was a really good trip.
So yeah, next time if you have some time off work, take a couple of days off.
Maybe like three days would be more than enough to explore Maine.
It's really pretty if you like the ocean, if you love to hike, love the forest, I would
highly recommend going there.
Oh, and if you like seafood, definitely go there.
They have the real seafood that's not a store bought.
It's it's made right there.
So yeah, thank you so much for tuning in, you guys.
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