Portland Maine

[ECO]

I'm planning a short trip up to Portland Maine for this weekend. As of now I have no clue when I am leaving or when I am returning which is sort of funny because I always plan everything out way in advance for my trips. After living up there for a few years I feel like a tourist going back to see the sites and to take some photos.

[Wahoo]

Don't stop to pick up any young lady hitchhikers dressed in white on Route 26!!!

Shortly after midnight on July 11, 2009, a police officer in Mechanic Falls stopped to check on a teenage driver who was frantically flashing his headlights. When the cop approached the car, he found a 16-year-old named David who was badly shaken. The kid was in tears and babbling about something that happened moments ago in Poland.

The story David told was a crazy one but not unique. For generations, travelers through this dark place have told tales of a young lady dressed in white hitchhiking along Route 26. Sometimes she's dressed in a prom dress and sits quietly in the passenger seat. Other times, she is a bride dressed in white or a morose young woman with a cautionary message to deliver.

But our friend David had never heard those stories. He sat in his car stammering and trying to explain to the frowning policeman what had happened.

Just before 2 a.m., David was driving on Route 26 bound for Oxford. In the midst of all the darkness that collects in the middle of the night in Poland, suddenly there was a gleam of light at the roadside.

"She was standing on the side of the road, near the frozen custard place. At first, it was just a white glow," David said. "I drove up closer and saw that it was a woman. She looked to be between 20 and 24. I pulled over and she said, 'Can you bring me to the church on Route 11?'"
[...]
"She asked me if I could start driving faster, because she was late for her wedding," David said.

Those of us who have been around a while know that when a woman found wandering the back roads starts babbling about going to meet her beloved, what you have on your hands is a ghost. We will take appropriate action, which may include flinging ourselves out the window.

But David steeled up and drove on with the curious woman in the wedding gown. He turned onto Route 11, where even greater darkness gathers, and within a quarter of a mile, he found what appeared to be a church. He stopped between two posts out front and asked his eager rider if this was the right place.
[...]
"She said 'goodbye,'" David said.

"When I turned to look at her, she was gone!"

[ECO]

Lol, I don't plan on picking up any people along side of the road, other than seeing some lighthouses and old forts I'm all set for weird attractions.

[Wahoo]

Try not to run over Stephen King. Wasn't he clipped by a motorist not long ago while walking along some back road in Maine?

[ECO]

I ended up leaving early this morning and just got up to Maine

[Wahoo]

If you stop at Denny's for breakfast, ask the waitress if they still have the Octomom Grand Slam breakfast special (8 eggs and no sausage).

(Aw c'mon...that joke's still funny!)

[Irie]

lmao!!!!
Mmmm I havent had Dennys in ages.

[Wahoo]

It's even funnier, Tinks, when it's told right!!!

In honor of the mother of the octuplets, Denny's is offering a new breakfast meal: the *Octo-slam*:

You get eight eggs, no sausage, and the guy next to you has to pay the bill.

[Irie]

LMAO

[ECO]

Staying at a beach front condo in OOB Maine a little south of Portland with my parents. Lol the Internet is broken or comes and goes. Dreams of smoking a spliff on one of the two balconeys overlooking the ocean went out the window since there is a police substation directly under us .

[Wahoo]

One word of advice: Brownies.

[Wahoo]

Jamaica has Red Stripe. Canada has Molson. Australia had Victoria Bitter. What the indigenous beverage of OOB Maine?

[ECO]

Bud and bud light in metal bottles. It looks like the tourist season has ended at the beach, not many people around and it's a little on the chilly side.

Got a bunch of nice pictures all all sorts of stuff from lighthouses to people playing on the beach. Had swordfish steaks last night for dinner, better than the seafood places that we ate at yesterday that only had haddock and fried at that. How can a "seafood" place only sell one type of fish?