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By: Kris,
on 3/25/2012
Now Playing - Crazy In Love by The Puppini Sisters Life - One thing Linz and I have always enjoyed is doing the local tourist things. We find that a lot of people never take the time to explore the area they live in and we've been guilty of that lately too. SO this weekend, we bit the bullet. The last weekend in March every year, the state of Maine's Maple Syrup makers or Sugarhouses have
By: Kris,
on 5/16/2011
Now Playing - I'm Yours (Live) by Jason Mraz Pastry from Bolley's Famous Franks Life - A few weeks ago, I was contacted by my district manager and asked if I would be interested in transferring up to the Bangor area of Maine. We had lost or were going to lose a few managers up there and he felt that ultimately, even discounting that, they could benefit from my experience with the
By: Kris,
on 5/4/2011
Now Playing - No Woman No Cry by Bob Marley Life - A fountain and an awesome old church in a park by Augusta. Last week, we drove up to the Bangor area for a few reasons. One - we just really wanted to get out of town for a while. Two - We'd never been, and we were told that the Northern part of Maine would suit us well. Three - They need managers up there, and there's a slightly
By: Kristopher and Crew,
on 10/3/2010
Now Playing - Metropolitan Glide by Tom WaitsLife - For the last week and a half, we've had a virtual parade of visitors here. First, our friend Jen for a few days, visiting us on a side trip while she was in Cape Cod with her aunt. Before we'd even put the cushions back on the couch, Lindsay's parents arrived from Idaho for a week, and halfway through that, her sister Marissa joined us. I
By: Kristopher and Crew,
on 9/27/2010
I've decided to try something a little different with my reviews from now on. I'm going to keep the "numbered" format of my previous reviews, but incorporate the ROUS initials of my site and make the format a bit more open to reviewing other types of things, like restaurants and the like. Let me know what you think! Reviews Of Unusual SizeRestaurants RED'S EATSMain St. & Water St., Wiscasset,
By: Kristopher and Crew,
on 7/10/2010
Now Playing - The Day The World Went Away by Nine Inch Nails Life - Belfast, seen from the bridge. Ahh, Belfast. Not as wonderful as it could have been, but not as bad as I'd feared. We started the day out bright and early, getting on the road by 9-ish (Which isn't really that early for us, but for a road trip it was early - we always seem to have myriad little tasks those mornings that keep
By: Kristopher and Crew,
on 7/3/2010
Now Playing - Trash by Bob Schneider Life - I hope this isn't the case for all of mankind, but man did it seem like most people I talked to had bad days yesterday. Mine wasn't anything remarkably bad, just a lot of stuff on top of each other. I had to get lobsters again, nothing new there, but my manager, who I suspect can't decide whether he likes me or feels like I was brought in because
By: Kristopher and Crew,
on 6/10/2010
Now Playing - You Run Away by Barenaked Ladies Life - Today is how a day off should be. Especially when you consider it was kind of a work-related trip. We sell live Maine lobsters at work, the only drug store in the nation to do so, and I've kind of become the Lobster Manager by default, dealing with the tank, keeping us in stock, etc... And one of the best/worst parts is actually obtaining
By: Kristopher and Crew,
on 4/3/2010
Day two dawned cold. Dawned cold! (Haha Lame Punnery) We all slept well, lulled to sleep by the gentle rumblings of the nearby semis generators, though the lights of the rest stop were a bit intrusive. We'll likely make curtains for the E our next modification. I've made makeshift ones a couple of times before but they've always been kind of half-assed and shabby or unwieldy. We were meeting our
By: Kristopher and Crew,
on 1/16/2010
We spent yesterday in nearby Idaho Falls, primarily attempting to sell some DVDs, CDs and books that we'd deemed superfluous. We were hoping to get some extra cash for the trip and have a few less boxes laying around. First off, I have to make one thing abundantly clear. I despise Idaho Falls. Now, keep in mind, what I'm about to say is a generalization and naturally does not apply to everyone
By: Kristopher and Crew,
on 10/29/2009
It took me longer to get this posted than I'd planned, so I decided to lump the last two and a half days of our vacation into one post. It appears that I took virtually zero pictures of the last day in Oregon... DAY FOUR Sunday morning dawned gray, drizzly and gloomy, just the way we like it. We got up and out of the hotel pretty quickly, hitting the road just before 7:30. Our plan for
By: Kristopher and Crew,
on 10/21/2009
Day three, the day in which we had a home base and in theory had planned for a pretty simple day, yet I still managed to spend most of driving... Started out the day getting harassed by the breakfast lady, bright and early. She made my waffles and dispensed abuse. In a good, friendly way, but still. It was pretty early in the morning, thanks to Lindsay. The breakfast at the Motel was pretty
By: Kristopher and Crew,
on 10/17/2009
Now Playing - Bang, Bang by Nancy Sinatra Life - This was a pretty great day. Friday dawned Grey and cool, with a faint haze on the horizon. I slept well in the car, though I must have drank more water than I'd thought, or the devious coffee at Shari's was punishing me for mocking it, and I had to get up a few times in the night and stagger into the house, which was a little awkward to me.
By: Kristopher and Crew,
on 10/17/2009
Now Playing - Mulder and Scully by Catatonia Life - Thursday morning, I picked Lindsay up from work and we took off for our promised land, the Northwest. Specifically the roughly rectangular area between Long Beach, WA, Portland, OR, Salem, OR and Lincoln City, OR. Our plan is to check out the area, looking specifically with an eye towards living there full time. Previously, all we've done is
By: Kristopher and Crew,
on 8/26/2009
Despite a lot of ill-advised changes, there is still a lot to love about the festival and though it gets harder to justify the expense each year, we come home quite happy about it nonetheless. - The MusicThe biggie. Although each year is filled with it's fair share of acts that leave me feeling "Meh" and this year in particular, there seemed to be a lack of true bluegrass bands, the music is
By: Kristopher and Crew,
on 8/18/2009
After driving around for a while, we went back through White Sulphur Springs, where we decided to eat some lunch. We stopped at a spectacular little deli. The Corner Stone Deli, is the kind of sandwich shoppe that every town in the US should have. Nicely decorated in a modern looking country theme, with older waitresses that call you honey, rather than having a list of sandwiches to choose from,
By: Kristopher and Crew,
on 8/14/2009
Sunday dawned bright and dry. We ate a somewhat warm breakfast at the Busy Bee with the rest of the family (Not sure why it was so balmy, they must have had a busted A/C or something) and chatted for a while with everyone. Thanks to the heroic efforts of Mr. Steve, my rig was fully inflated and ready to roll, so we left town ahead of the rest of the group, who were planning to stay for church and
By: Kristopher and Crew,
on 7/29/2009
I got thinking about it and realized that I didn't really have any photos from this day anyway, which is kind of odd.. ( I did shamelessly steal a few from someone else, and will post them where appropriate.) I am writing this on a small amount of sleep obtained 21 hours ago though, so bear with me.Saturday started innocently enough, a nice, lazy morning, waking up in what looked like a public
By: Kristopher and Crew,
on 7/24/2009
We woke bright and early the next morning, after sleeping quite well in the back of Strontium. Since our last road trip, where we fought with a leak-a-licious air mattress, we decided to go basic, cheap and old-school. We went to the thrift store, bought a twin mattress in decent shape for $25, shoved a few pillows into the gaps around the doors and wheel wells, tossed our full-size pillow top
Even if you don't end up relocating, it sounds like you had a nice trip. The pizza and the omelet looked fabulous. It made me hungry. My breakfast this morning was some stale Cheerios. Good luck with your future endeavors.