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#201 2014-08-16 14:19:17
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Re: Coffee bars, diners, forgotten roadside eateries
"bow wow wow yippie yo yippie yay"
#202 2014-08-16 14:24:40
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Yessir.
The Virginia Beach I grew up in is only a memory. Stucco corporate American has taken over.
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#203 2014-08-16 14:38:30
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"bow wow wow yippie yo yippie yay"
#204 2014-08-16 14:49:01
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"bow wow wow yippie yo yippie yay"
#205 2014-08-16 16:10:05
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#206 2014-08-16 16:13:25
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I stumble into some gems every now and then.
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#207 2014-08-17 14:01:13
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#208 2014-08-17 15:27:57
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Have either of you ever done a roadtip along the old US-1 coastal route through MA and ME?
That's one of my favorite drives in the country; especially in late summer.
I always start in Boston/Cambridge and drive through Kennebunkport, Boothbay Harbor, Monhegan Island, Camden, Brooksville, Bar Harbor, etc. with roadstops at endless clam shacks and lobster pounds all along the South Coast (Revere, Essex, Ipswich, Kittery, York, Cape Neddick, Perkins Cove, Wells, Cape Porpoise & Elizabeth, Portland, Lewiston, etc) and spending a night or two at old inns and cottages in tiny inlets. Usually a couple of nights at the Colony Hotel in Kennbunkport, Beach Cove Waterfront Inn or Mid-Town Motel in Boothbay Harbor, The Island Inn on Monhegan, Whitehall Inn in Camden, and my favorite: Oakland House Cottages in Brooksville near Deer Island. Mid-Coast roadfood from South Freeport to Thomaston, Rockland, Deer Isle, Northeast Harbor, Bass Harbor, Bernard, Hancock, all the way up to Acadia is the best! It makes me really miss summers on the East Coast.
When I used to teach full time and had summers free, I'd usually plan month-long roadtrips. One summer I drove all the way from VT to Western Mass and on through coastal Maine, all the way up to Bretton Woods and Dixville Notch and on to Pittsburgh NH. My focus now is on the Nat'l Parks in the US. I want to ride the old Empire Builder from Seattle through Glacier next fall, but the missus wants to go back to Europe. I also really want to do coastal GA from St. Marys and Cumberland Island Nat'l Seashore to Jekyll Island, Savannah, Beaufort, and Charleston. Probably flying into JAX and out of Charleston. I need to sell more clothes!! 
#209 2014-08-17 16:05:01
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oh yeah, Maine lobster rolls rule ... gets a bit congested with the tourists but ... if you have access to a Whaler and can zip around from pound to pound picking up ingredients for your own clambakes and massive lobster paellas on the beach then it is even better than Red's of Wiscasset and that's saying a lot .....
besides all the opportunities to gorge on lobster and blueberry pie Maine offers the freakishly bright red hot dogs and top-sliced buns and we love those .....
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#210 2014-08-17 16:26:28
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"bow wow wow yippie yo yippie yay"
#211 2014-08-17 17:09:20
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Maine blueberries (and blueberry pie!) is the best in the world.
The North Coast doesn't get so busy; vacationers usually flock to the same spots. You can spend a week around Deer Isles only running into locals. I miss East Coast clambakes!
I think my wife's spent some short time around Martha's Vineyard and Cape Cod but she's otherwise never been East of Boston so I really want to try and find the time to roadtrip along Rt-1 but it's so much less accessible from the opposite coast.
#212 2014-08-17 17:13:06
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My God, what waist size are you two?
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#213 2014-08-17 18:49:14
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33 or 34 depending .... going to be back to 32 and cinching it any day now .... now I got to be getting to the market to pick up some stuff ... got me a hankering for some pimento cheese ...
call it 34 for tonight ......
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#214 2014-08-18 06:47:52
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#215 2014-08-18 07:57:57
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Oh I've been before! I've never done the coastal route from FLA to GA though and my wife's never been to the south (she's traveled to 40 countries and lived in 4 of them!) and really wants to go to Savannah. I haven't been in over a decade so I'm excited to go back.
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#217 2014-08-18 08:13:52
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#218 2014-08-18 08:23:18
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"McQueen's message was signaled through subtraction... in a tweed or herringbone jacket and a ribbed swearer he had an electric austerity".
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#220 2014-08-18 09:03:14
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#221 2014-08-18 09:03:30
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I remember Vandy's B.B.Q. in Statesboro being destination-worthy.
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#223 2014-08-18 09:14:23
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Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare
#224 2014-08-18 09:16:29
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Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare
#225 2014-08-18 09:17:36
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^ The Hominy Grill is the one for me, the 'Charleston Nasty Biscuit' is the one but order it with a softly fried egg on top (it's the egg yolk and sausage gravy 'mix' after the first bite that'll blow your socks off).
The appleslaw is great side as well, a good taste/textural counterpoint to the 'quite rich' Nasty mentioned abpve.
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