It’s so blurry but I’m seeing a Mini Cooper as the non-crash racer.

Ford’s trick with the Transit Connect was to ship them over as passenger minivans, then remove the windows and send them back to Europe, while scrapping the seats, to covert them into work vans.

For perspective, go back there again in November..... Still beautiful, but cold and raw. All the tourists are gone and left are the year-round residents, who are generally a collection of townies and weirdos. It is a 100% different place. Dress warmly, because there is no other cold than an ocean breeze cold.

Auto-dimming side-view mirrors. I honestly have no idea how prevalent this is nowadays since my cars are fairly old, but I had a rental car with this feature and loved it.

somewhat of a feature?

They opened up a Frites Shack just outside Oxbow.  Go there, get awesome beer and great frites at the same time!

My first thought was if mixing beer and whiskey would result in doubling the average spend.

Who drinks gin straight? It tates horrible. It’s like a soured water or soured vodka.

When I am in Maine, I head straight to a lobster pound and have them boil up a lobster for me. Sometimes I add steamed mussels.  PETA can kiss my butt.

I’m proud of them (Maine) for sustainable practices, but surely they realize that’s not PETA’s beef-alternative? The ad is about the “personhood” of animals/sea bugs. People who come to town for lobsterfest are still going to eat lobster.

I would like to be in Portland when you make this trip, Kate, for three reasons: 1.) I want to witness live The Takeout’s review-in-process of both Allagash Brewery and Duck Fat; 2.) I believe it will be beneficial to said review to recount the tale of the unaffiliated bystander (me) who devolved into a gibbering,…

uh oh - pass me the Milk of Magnesia, this could get ugly

Eat em however you like. There’s no wrong. I just write about the way I eat them, and I think it’s a decent method. 

Duck boats have a canopy that traps you in if it sinks, life jacket or no.

And yet, check out his Twitter bio (yes, it’s real):

If she had done what you suggest, not only would she have been denied a service to which she had every right to request, but the manager would have gone on thinking this was acceptable instead of behavior over which a person can be rightfully fired.

I’m sorry but she was not egging him on. When you encounter clear racism, and it’s in a setting where you aren’t in physical danger, you should always call it out. I’d have done the exact same thing and then do everything in my power to ruin the reputation of that establishment.

Meh for the most part speed limits in NE are fine as they are (I’ve lived somewhere in the NE Corridor the majority of my life.) Speed limits on rural stretches are going up slowly and around towns and cities sometimes 55 seems like too much with people not knowing how to merge or exit (because they learned to drive…

And daylight savings time saved us lots of energy because it provided, you know, more sunlight......

Speed doesn't kill..... It's the jerk in the left lane blocking that's killing everyone!