Amazing Maine

I was struck by how much New England (Maine included) looks like Northern Michigan. Each place we traveled to had a slightly different feel (Massachusetts felt a lot like Europe), but geographically, they were nearly identical.

Maine, for example, has this whole culture of lobster fishing. At the campground where we stayed, you could order a lobster in the morning from the proprietor (caught in his own traps) for your supper that evening.

Northern Michigan definitely has a whole fresh-fish thing, but I don't know anyone who catches commercially. Nearly everywhere we drove in coastal Maine, lobster traps lay stacked in yards of normal-looking homes. Yet, whitefish and perch in Northern Michigan restaurants are as ubiquitous as lobster are in Maine restaurants.

Anyway, here are a few photo highlights from the trip:

The lighthouse at Cape Newaygen, Boothbay Harbor, Maine.

Dinghies at the dock.

Lobster traps in a yard on Southport Island.

The Stinky Dog waiting in line for Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream in Freeport, Maine (home of the L.L. Bean Flagship store).

A field of sunflowers against the Green Mountains outside Shaw's Grocery in Stowe, Vermont.