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| Maine:
One of my early
trips to Maine sticks in my mind. I was delivering a cube van to a
dealership in South Paris. This is a small town
northwest of Portland, so I got to drive on many miles of narrow, twisting
two-lane roads. I passed through several quaint little towns that reminded
me a lot of home (north-central Pennsylvania). I also passed by a
multitude of broken and twisted trees, the results of a severe ice storm
that had hit the area a short time before. Six-inch thick trees were
bowed so much that their top branches brushed the ground. Other
larger trees were snapped off half-way up the trunks. The destruction went
on for many miles. It looked as if small tornadoes had played
hopscotch through the woods.
Since that trip earlier in my driving career, I have been to Maine many times. Most of the trips were to Poland Springs or to Hollis Center, where I delivered plastic bottle caps to the Poland Spring Water Company facilities there and generally picked up loads of bottled water to deliver to New Jersey or eastern Pennsylvania.
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| Maine Rte. 122, going downhill from Poland Spring Water Plant towards Auburn, ME. | Stainless Steel water storage tanks at the Poland Springs plant outside of Hollis Center, ME. | Common rural Maine winter scene, with snow piled 3 to 5 feet along the roads and drive-ways. |
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| You will often see signs on such roads warning of a moose crossing. I've never seen a live moose in New England. | Christmas Tree Shops This mural is a familiar sight along I.95, the Maine Turnpike. I think it is in the Portland area. | |
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| New
Hampshire: Most
of my experiences with this state consisted of passing through on my way
to somewhere else. I crossed the narrow section near the coast on I.95
through Portsmouth a few times, usually at night, which made it difficult
to take pictures. Most of my photos of New Hampshire come from
traversing the state vertically on I.93 on a trip from Boston to Quebec.
I remember one section of the trip, through the White Mountains, where the
interstate narrowed to 2 lanes and the speed limit dropped to 45 due to
the tortuous path the road was forced to follow. Another memory was
of the seemingly endless rows of factory buildings on either side of the
highway through the Concord region. It was a long but enjoyable trip
and the scenery was great. Since then, I've been to New Hampshire many
times, to Nashua, Manchester, Hookset, and angling across the state on
I.89 to Vermont. My pictures would make you think that it was always
winter in New Hampshire, but rest assured, summer does get there just
about every year.
Products going into New Hampshire: Grocery products, canned goods, electrical cable, extruded aluminum window and door framing, raw rubber, plastic bottle caps. Products coming out of New Hampshire: plastic bottles, electrical components, printed cartons, bottled drinks. |
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| An example of the Concord factory buildings along the Merrimack River.. | I.93 Rest Area. The Visitor's Building had a working fireplace right inside the door. | A foggy stretch of I.93.There are mountains behind that fog. |
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| Cannon Mnt. Tramway and a view of the Old Man of the Mountain. | Kancamagus Hwy and Loon Mnt. Road, and would you believe, the North Country Center for the Arts. | Yes, the sun does shine on New Hampshire sometimes. This is on the northern section of I.93. |
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| One of the massive hunks of rock along I.93 in central New Hampshire. | Snowy trees in a sparsely-settled part of southern NH. | I.93 north-bound. The mnts. here, while not the Rockies, are still taller and more massive than those of PA. |
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