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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FJRMaineiac" data-source="post: 1467347" data-attributes="member: 1061">[USER=19880]@RossKean[/USER] - I agree 100%, and I am not sure what possessed me to drive to the coast on the 4th of July (just wanted to smell the salt air, I guess), but I was actually pleasantly surprised yesterday.  The first part of the video is Rt 1 through Wiscasset, which is always a slow choke point, but it was actually moving well yesterday.  I think I just got lucky.  I know what you mean about Boothbay.  My family has a vacation spot in Acadia, but we go there in the winter (February vacation week from school).  We always get strange looks when we tell people that.  However, my kids all grew up playing winter sports, so we always found plenty to do outside in the winter.  The best part - no crowds!  My youngest son took a foreign exchange student friend to Acadia last weekend and now has a better understanding of why we scheduled our family vacations in the winter.  He said the crowds were bonkers.Normally my go-to motorcycle ride on a day like the 4th of July might be somewhere less crowded like the western mountains of Maine or up towards Moosehead Lake.  This year the spirit moved me to go to the coast, and I just got lucky.</blockquote>