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Old 03-09-2025, 10:05 PM
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Originally Posted by jimhoward View Post
The distance between Spanish Springs and Eastport is about 14 miles and takes about 35 minutes by car. Almost everything of interest except a few notable golf courses lies between those two. So if you are anywhere between Spanish Springs and Eastport you are within a half an hour by car of almost everything.

If you go to the far north you lose some of that. The far south becomes more than 1/2 hour away.

So the appeal/advantage of the far north would have to be the look of area itself, the cost, and/or its proximity to particular golf courses.
This was not our experience at all last Thursday. We drove our car from our home in DeLuna (about 15-20 minutes north of Eastport) to the Sharon Morse Performing Arts Center in Spanish Springs, and it took 50 minutes to get there. We were never in any kind of bumper to bumper traffic, so just a normal drive up there.

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