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Originally Posted by senior citizen

Sounds like your original trip can't be beat..........but just get off the beaten path and you will find some hidden gems like "Schoodic Point" which is near Acadia National Park.........Moose Head Lake way up in the north.........and the typical little touristy towns like Boothbay Harbor Maine.........Camden Maine.....go to see the little belted galloway cows, the Children's Chapel, etc........and eat on the harbor where the schooners come in..........Eastport is quaint.........Kennebunkport, Ogunquit, The Yorks, etc. for a typical seaside experience..........if you go "west to east" on the roads less traveled, you will see the "real interior of Maine"......and if you venture out on all the peninsulas, which takes a lot of time, you will see the real fishing villages and the real working fishermen and lobstermen. One of my favorite places is Pemaquid Peninsula.
Maine is ideal for artistic types who like to paint. Besides Pemaquid, Southport Island near Boothbay Harbor ......is also quaint and very pretty.

You can't see Maine from the Maine Turnpike which is ugly. You have to take the coastal roads, which takes "time"........but is well worth it in memories. We have wonderful photography memories from all our journeys over the years...........also, once you get to Boothbay Harbor, where the movie "Carousel" was filmed back in the 1950's, you have to explore the entire vicinity and you will find hidden gems.........Boothbay Harbor is very very quaint. Good for the soul......all of Maine on a slow mope. Maine and New Hampshire are Vermont's "seacoast".

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