North Maine Woods

Awesome trip and pictures, thanks for sharing the journey!

 

Yea road signs and maps do not correlate. Lots of changes and lots of roads get moved. You were staying up above Indian. We stay there a lot or over in Oxbow.

 

Thanks for sharing pictures of your adventures. The pictures of the view of the fall trees almost look like paintings.

 

All reality shows are fake. I watched it because I enjoyed the scenery and watching them move wood. Could of cared less about the acting and drama.

 

I watched that show and many other similar shows.

I'd respectively disagree about all being fake. There are some obvious times of "manufactured drama". But I believe that the people being filmed, the majority of them would be doing what they do, cameras or not.

Two extremes. I don't think Tony Beets(Gold Rush) would do things much any differently. Then there's Jon Taffer(Bar Rescue) who's all about manufactured drama.

Either can be entertaining to watch. Some I do. Some I don't.

 

We threatened to ride out to the locomotives in the woods by snowmobile but never made it there. Northern Maine was by far our favorite place to ride.

Life is different in Northern Maine...
Relaxed. People have time to talk and be friendly. Neighborly.

 

Nice. I drove part of the Golden Road when I was staying at Pittston Farm doing some bear hunting a few years ago. Beautiful country (but definitely watch out for the logging trucks).

 

Thanks for stories and pics Flamestead

 

Yup absolutely. They got paid tons of money to do that show. Now the family has broken apart into separate businesses and have nothing to do with one another. There is the forestry still but they sold off all the woods camps. Jeff started the manufacturing by buying out Stairs, they build the trailers, headache racks, and some truck bodies some they build some they buy. They started a fire suppression company that installs on forestry machines, they also went into the insurance business pursued by Tim Varney. They had to close that restaurant because all the employees would just hang out there drinking all the time. Kind of a shame what 5 minutes of fame does to a person.

 

I agree. I know a lot Of people that work in that area. That’s a normal day for them for the most part but the tv show makes it look superhuman. They would always go on about working all night and stuff but they always have run 2 crews during certain times of the year for production. It’s the gotta make hay while the sun shines thing. This time of year it has to slow down due to rain, once it freezes and they can build winter roads it’s all out 24/7 until it breaks up. Mud season can be 2 weeks or 3 months. Once it dries up again it’s back to 24/7 to make up for lost time.

 

Very cool, thanks for sharing and don't be so shy next time.

Mrs. DG and I would love to do some camper based travel of the US at some point. I think my ideal set up would be a small RV or campervan, something that I could haul the motorcycle with either on a trailer or platform so that we could travel the area on the motorcycle and leave the camper parked. We are kinda tied down with the Hounds right now and both still working and enjoying working, but it's something we talk about occasionally.

Did you travel with the dog?