MAINE - "The Way Life Should Be"
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Just inside the Maine-New Brunswick border, in a small shrub bed, is where we experienced this, our first "Welcome to Maine" sign. It is a border crossing which will live in infamy in our history of Waymarking expeditions.
Waymark Code: WMVEWA
Location: Maine, United States
Date Posted: 04/09/2017
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No, it's not for any of the obvious reasons one would conjecture, such as being caught trying to smuggle drugs, money, food, tobacco, guns, booze or cats over the border. We will always remember this as the "Camera Eating Border" and this is why:
While approaching the Canada-US border we spied a border monument by the side of the road. I asked B to get out her camera and try to take a couple of shots of it as we were approaching.
Right then and there the lens of our Canon G12 seized up and has never moved since. We quickly got the trusty Nikon into action and managed to get a couple more shots before we were forced to move on. On arriving in Houlton, just a mile down I-95, our first stop was at the Houlton Wally World camera department in search of a replacement.
Other than that, our border crossing into Maine was completely without incident.
Once across the border and through customs we saw this sign, thinking "After that unfortunate border experience, we sure hope they're not hyperbolizing on that sign". It turned out they weren't. Maine is a great place to visit - beautiful, laid back, easy going and chock full of history; our kind of place, indeed!
