Back in August of this year, Hokie & his lady Kelsey picked up and moved from Maine to California. You know I love road trips, so I made sure he let me repost his trip. Here it is, in tasty blog morsels. Enjoy! What follows is a quick daily journal of the happenings during a five day road trip across [...]

This is probably one of the most iconic views of Acadia National Park, but it also happens to be one of my favorite. I know I write a lot about Acadia, but it’s really one of the main reasons my life has changed for the better. Here, people sit in Adirondack chairs at the Jordan Pond House after enjoying popovers [...]

This weekend is what’s called the “International Fly-in,” where hundreds of sea planes will land on Moosehead Lake for a last hurrah before winter overtakes the region. This view of Moosehead is looking north from downtown Greenville, Maine. Already many pilots have been braving the pretty breezy conditions to land on the lake. Time to sign off…

There were two very specific reasons I moved to Maine. The first, as I’ve mentioned several times before on PTV, has to do with the relieving of my overabundance of mind melting stress.  The second is, of course, the silence. So when The Girlfriend and I took off for a day of hiking fun, my hopes of finding some pure [...]

My lovely girlfriend and I are on a mission. The state of Maine has implemented a fun and challenging game for their 75th Anniversary this year. It involves collecting stamps in special passport books, available free at all state parks in Maine. Challenge 1: get to a state park and find the passport station. Challenge 2: look up the park [...]

click the picture to see full size This past weekend, my girlfriend and I took a day trip to western Maine, to the town of Farmington, where she attended college. On our way out of town to scope out some waterfalls (which must be amazing during spring meltoff), we came across this fantastic vista. To the right, you can see [...]

Road trips don’t have to be epic cross country battles that take days, weeks, or even months to complete. “Epic” is a word that people throw around a lot to describe the wonderful feelings they have after a long road trip, but epic can be used to describe even the shortest of journeys. As a Part Time Vagabond, I don’t [...]

Sometimes, you have to take a macro shot, close up, to see the big picture. I don’t imagine there’s a big story here: a crab walking at low tide, a gull snatches it up, drops it on the rocks below, and has a nice lunch. But how did this claw get here, at least thirty yards from the water? Where [...]

Spring was definitely in the air last weekend in Maine, and I’d be damned if I wasn’t going to take advantage of warm temps and sunny skies. After hitting up a nice brunch, my friend Bryan and I set out for a leisurely hike on our local Portland Trails system at the Fore River Sanctuary.

Down by the Maine State Pier, just off to the left across from the Narrow Gauge Railroad, is a marina where a sailing school is based and marine maintenance work is done. On one of my acquaintance walks, where I was wandering around getting to know my new home, I came on this large beam covered in black, shiny mussels. [...]