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Went to coastal Maine for much-needed vacation decompression, and I and the Girlfriend Attorney stayed in the little tourist town of Ogunquit, which it turns out is something of a gay Mecca in terms of twee New England destinations. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Though I imagine Muslims get annoyed with the "gay Mecca" term, and perhaps gay Muslims get even more annoyed, offended by the suggestion that the actual Mecca is not already gay and accepting enough of their lifestyle. Because, you know, it totally should be. And anyway, how do Meccans refer to a non-Mecca location that attracts people of a particular demographic?

But enough Andy Rooney bullshit. The trip was great and too short, though the coast was seized by the same tyrannically brutal steam wave that broiled the rest of the country this past weekend. It was comparable to the Alabama heat I remember so well, and experiencing that in Maine just seems like a betrayal of fundamental climatological law. North = cold. That's what we learned in AP Confederate Studies, and that's the way it oughta damn be.

Anyway, there are of course photos. Warning: contains rocks. Lots and lots of rocks.

Comments

[JMH]

.....Looks relaxing! That's some beautiful scenery! We're huddling over the air-conditioning vents and gulping water back in Confederate land! I assume the North Atlantic is too cold for swimming? At least you're not getting nibbled by sharks like they are where we're going this fall!

.....Watching the sunset at the beach with a cool drink in hand is a time-honored tradition. Looks like you captured some good ones! And that sand looked like some interesting building material. I'd have had to set an alarm and hit the beach early, with coffee and sand tools!

JH

PS, and remember when I posted that Richard Scrushy would skate? Man has a bible show on TV. They had no chance with an Alabama jury...

[chris m]

The water was cold, but that didn't people from frolicking. Though the best off where those in wetsuits, mostly surfers practiciing on tiny waves. The high tides actually submerged the entire beach all the way up to the rocks by 2pm each day, eradicating whatever sandcastles had arisen by then...

[JMH]

.....The fall of sandcastles is as it should be. Last year, it was kind of strange when several of mine survived much of the week in Galveston! Of course, the first attempt to tear down one of my castles did not go well for the perp...

.....Galveston has hard-packed loamy sand, not the pretty white stuff in the Florida panhandle, but rather briny, coarse stuff laced with Mississippi mud and oil runoff. Getting to the good, wet sand for building castles requires digging a two foot deep hole, and these holes don't collapse easily like on most beaches. The first day I was there I dug my hole, and built a monster drip castle right next to it, with spires reaching four feet! Later, a pickup truck with "City of Galveston" logo on the side came roaring down the beach. The driver gunned the engine, plowed into my castle, and his right front tire dropped into the unseen three foot deep hole with a tremendous THUNK!!! that was audible all the way back at the condo! The foolish city employee got out to inspect the damage, then nursed his truck away, leaving crooked tire tracks behind... I don't think anyone had the courage to mess with a castle afterwards, except for the remnants of Hurricane Ivan, which drowned one of my castles that was too close to the water!

JH

[Dave R]

Never have I heard such detailed sand castle history. Brilliant.

Chris, you're girlfriend is damned cute, also: img_0034 looks damned cool, also, what's with img_0066? ALSO, let it be known I met a cute girl from Maine t'other week. Let it also be known I hit one of your 'American bases' with said girl before 'striking out'.

Send more American chicks over Irelands way; Irish girls hate me.

[JMH]

.....Ah, but you have to love the Irish beer. Just finished a 6-pack of Guinness Draught, and it was some of the best beer I've ever had!

JH

[chris m]

John has detailed more family vacations on this blog than I have excuses for not posting... Another crate of hott American chicks is on its way, Dave. Make sure to store them in a cool, dry place when not in use. Now, is that "base" you got to with the Mainer girl like one of your "tests" in cricket? That img066 was of a photo stuck on the wall there by a sidewalk. No idea what the story was there, but I liked it. Anyway, why do the Irish girls hate you? You just have to tone down that sexually threatening animal charism you're always radiating. They just hate what they know they can never truly tame, right?