[Magdalen] Where to go?

[Molly Wolf]

According to my late episcopapa, Maine folk refer to tourists as "summer complaints" because they show up in summer and complain a lot.  It took me forever to remember that "summer complaint" is a genteelism for a GI illness, probably from salmonella in unrefrigerated food.

Molly
who has done the central Maine route from Ontario to Nova Scotia and back several times.

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain

> On Dec 10, 2014, at 2:12 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I drove from Kamouraska (Quebec) to Bar Harbor (Maine) in one day
> once. Wouldn't do it again. Long boring drive. And Bar Harbor is
> not worth a visit IMO. Like Martha's Vineyard, it's full of people
> from New York & New Jersey (in season, at least).
> 
> Montreal is a truly great world-class city and I can never get enough
> of it. I've considered moving there even. Quebec not so much (and
> the people are horribly bourgie, where Montreal is culturally wonderfully
> diverse). Quebec's pretty, though. In an Olde Worlde Disney way.
> 
> Cape Breton is my idea of heaven. But YMMV. Maine just makes me
> want to cry, knowing the rich have driven the poor away from the
> coast. Beauty strips and all. Dear me.
> -M