Headed to Portland Maine. What to do?

Headed there in a couple weeks. Quick anniversary trip. Just me and the wife. What should we not miss?

 

Stay in bed.

 

Umm


2x.....

 

Lobstah roll

 

Too late, too cold. Stay closer to home or head for Asheville NC

 

Don’t come here. The dawdling leaf chasers are out in force.

 

To late you big grumps. Flights already booked.

 

Then what @dtalbott said.... make your next road race champion

 

Can you even get there from here?

 

YouTube thread in a minute.

 

Bring an Ukrainian bride

 

Becky's Diner on the waterfront- best clam chowdah and lots of local flavor. The Porthole down the street is a local bar type place, but the Lobstah Rolls are AUTHENTIC.

 

Aren't Dern's ancestors from there?

Reason enough not to go.

 

Maine is a beautiful state, minus the black flies, deer flies, horse flies, mosquitoes and yellow jackets.

Oh, you're going to a city? What's wrong with you?

 

This thread makes me think of L.L. Bean.

 

Eat many!!!!!

 

Just asked Mom. She said they’re full up. Stay in Oh Heigh Ho. Unless you bring her corned beef from Jack’s Deli.

 

mountain bike trails near Bangor are pretty awesome. colors should be great there this time of year too. happy anniversary! Ski

 

There’s a reason they’re there and I’m here.





























I got kicked out.

You’ll be fine there.

 

Ok, now to get to it.

What are you interested in? Portland is probably the least interesting place in the entire state to be honest.

It’s a shit small town that wants to think it’s a big city. Tourist season is over so you may as well put the idea of “Downeast charming restaurant” out of your head. They closed a month ago. They’re having the same difficulty getting decent help as the rest of the country, so Denny’s and Pizza Hut may be the only places you find open.

A little north on US-1 to Freeport if you want boutique shopping, further north to Bath to see the Bath Iron Works cranes and navy ships being repaired, further north and off Route 1 to Boothbay Harbor if you want scenery, back to Route 1 and further north to Waldoboro to visit Moody’s Diner, further north to Rockland for museums and to deliver the corned beef, further north to Camden for a dried up tourist town that still thinks it’s high class…

Or head south and visit @inyourcorner in the Tax Free or Die state. Flip off some Massholes and enjoy the best drivers in the whole damn country as they navigate I-95 traffic.

Or find someplace decent to go this time of year. A cryogenic facility would be my choice.