lol … Literally the beach is about a mile away plus I’m about 3 blocks from a river … There’s a noticeable difference in temp at my house and about 5 miles north from my house in the summer
I was going to note that my office is in a valley and generally 3-5 degrees warmer than my house. I can watch the temperature drop on the car’s external thermometer driving up the hill.
But then I realized that saying so would weaken my position re: walking from my car to the office, because it was actually 6 degrees there by the time I arrived, not the 1 I posted about from home.
Really, though, it was a sunny day and felt warmer than the temp suggested. The walk was pleasant.
SUPER rugged.
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Sure sure … on a side note, I’d love to abandon the 50 ft above sea level life for the White mountains … love it up there
I’d love coastal Maine.
we took a trip to bar harbor last year … not really that impressed if I’m being honest - although I have a cousin who lives in Portland and is in love with it … Maine has a lot of coast so maybe just Bar Harbor isn’t my cup o tea / too touristy etc…
My job is near the White Mountains. North Conway has the same tourist trap downside as Bar Harbor but there’s plenty of surrounding area that’s not packed with tourists.
I might move out this way to shorten up the commute. Get a little land, build a fortified compound and finally settle down into a reclusive mountain hermit lifestyle.
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The song @flatsfarmer referenced is 23 years old, but the original ‘going back to cali’ is an LL Cool J song from 1988, meaning you were 19 when it came out, so…no, not some new thing, even for you.
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I really liked Acadia, but we had our bicycles with us and the trails there were perfect for that. Bar Harbor itself was…okay, I guess. Crowded. We stayed there and ate there, but spent most of our time in Acadia and on one of the lakes nearby. We’ve gone to Rockport/Gloucester, MA for a weekend the past couple of years and have found it a (comparatively) cheap and easy way to get our seaside/harbor fix, along with being able to see family while we’re there. They’re all happy to drive or take the train out for dinner. My strong preference is for Martha’s Vineyard on my bicycle, but that’s crazy expensive and time consuming travel-wise. I can be in San Francisco for less money and about the same travel time (less money because we generally fly and hotel for free).
That’s what my husband wants, and in fact has 165 acres of mountain he’d like to do it on. As rugged as I am, I’m like NO. It’s pie-shaped and steep and I have to breathe through the drive up to the top, where admittedly the views are phenomenal. He’s floated the idea that we’d have a garage at the bottom and keep the snow mobile in it for winters, then when I get home from work I’d snow mobile up to the house, about a mile. Then snow mobile back down to the car in the morning. In my therapist clothes, like…a sweater, skirt, and tights, lol. Men, right? Buncha weirdos!
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My uncle has a house in Rockport, my family have all been there 10+ times and I’ve yet to go, the pictures are always amazing and I’m itching to get out there…sounds like a solid endorsement!
Cultural clash: I know exactly one person that owns land, and it’s through inheritance.
Usage by an artist who (at the time) had a pretty narrow demographic doesn’t equal broad usage in the common lexicon…
About that same time he also threw mad rhymes out about his admiration for the .357, but I don’t think that became THE hardware choice for the average Thug Life hobbyist.
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The song went platinum. This is a weird response overall, since I didn’t suggest that it was LL Cool J who revolutionized the term Cali and made it popular, only that you said “it seems to be some new thing”, and it’s not a new thing. It was certainly big by the time Biggie’s song came out, and that was 23 years ago.
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I get that … MV is nice for that … but again I find MV overrated both b/c of the price ( I feel the same way about the Cape … to me, not worth the time/effort but that just might a function of where I live … I get the same charm without the traffic/costs).
Fun fact, I can see MV from my town beach
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Bridgton is a pretty sweet little town. If I didn’t need to live within a couple towns of Portland it’d be high on my list.
I just meant that sometimes it’s fun to say “Cali”. To me, Biggie’s song is a fun times, feel good song.
I guess dude wasn’t even from the state though. And going back out there wasn’t a super great move for him.
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I didn’t realize you were a Mainer
Born in MA, grew up in NH, currently reside in ME. As I get less and less fond of winter time I keep moving farther north. Pretty sure I’m doing that wrong.
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I’ll fess up and acknowledge that when I say “a few years” it could be a wider range of time than it seems to me. Fuck, we just got past the Y2K crisis a few years ago. Right? Time seems to be slipping away, exponentially.
Without turning this into a G r ee nboy style 100 post tedious thread-wrecker…
I still won’t equate subculture/artist usage with common usage (think your vanilla white Midwest Aunt Midge) when it comes to vocabulary. This is a meaningless blanket assesment.
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