Cruising Casco Bay on the Mailboat
October 12, 2016
Perfect choice for a pleasant sunny day: a 3-hour cruise on the Maine cargo/passenger ferry that serves as a lifeline to Portland’s islands.
Perfect choice for a pleasant sunny day: a 3-hour cruise on the Maine cargo/passenger ferry that serves as a lifeline to Portland’s islands.
Portland’s population isn’t huge, but its big history and its current foodie importance make it a great place to visit.
Ubiquitous, sometimes noisy, heralds of the seashore, gulls soar with great beauty…and don’t look bad on the ground.
Today’s picture is doing double-duty; it served as a clue in one of the earliest Where In The World is TravelGumbo puzzles, and is
This is about those moments when you look at something as you walk about a city (or outside one) and you see something so odd, or at any rate odd enough, that you just need to tell someone about it, or show them.
The furthest east that I reached on my drive across the country was a little town called Wells. On the map since 1643, it is the third-oldest town in Maine, has a population of around 10,000 and is a popular vacation spot in the summer…
Its promoters claim Mt. Cadillac, in Acadia National Park, sees the first sunrise in the U.S. from its perch on Maine’s Mt. Desert Island—and while that’s true only in fall and winter (other parts of Maine get the rest of the year) climbing or…
Happy New Year from the TravelGumbo Gurus and friends! Sure, it’s cold now, and seems like months to go to Spring, but keep this hopeful feathered friend and the beach in mind and it will help the time pass. This picture is from an early…
Although a number of contestants came close, only JohnT correctly named the locale for WITW #5.
Indian Pipe, seen above, is a flower commonly mistaken for a forest-dwelling fungus.