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Bangor can often be a cold, dark and forlorn place. Like a Stephen King novel. Maine gets about seven weeks of summer and you are under constant assault by horse flies, deer flies, mosquitos and ticks. Beaches are rocky and the water is always ice cold. Otherwise it’s a nice place to vacation!
Maine is surprisingly big as well. The map doesn’t do it justice. It’s deep forests seem endless and it’s one of the few places in America where you can truly get lost. I remember driving for six hours before even seeing a town with a gas station and store.
I have been to Arcadia National Park. Wonderful place.
I live in Maine.
The problem in the late Spring is the black flies.
My family owns a big chunk of woodland, and the black flies....bigger than fleas but smaller than a housefly; sort of like gnats.....swarm around your head like dirt swarms around the “Pig Pen” character in the “Peanuts” / “Charlie Brown” comic strips.
Fortunately, the black flies disappear after 3 - 4 weeks.
Then it’s mosquitos.
You’re right about the ocean.....it’s Titanic cold!
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Really the same could be said about half the northern states. Wyoming? Montana? Michigan? Same thing.