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Trip to Lubec, Maine and Halifax, Nova Scotia

I just returned from a 2-week vacation to Lubec, Maine, with a side trip to Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was a truly relaxing time away from everything. This means, among other things, that it was a trip with zero connectivity. No cell reception (except in Halifax), no Internet, no TV, no nothin’.

I’m not going to attempt the usual lengthy writeup. It somehow feels as though it would retroactively disturb the quiet that pervaded the trip. Instead, I encourage you to
view the photo album.

I will say that Lubec, Maine is an extremum in a state that is itself an extremity. It contains the easternmost point in the U.S, a rocky headland looking out into the Bay of Fundy. This is a calm place, several hours’ drive past Acadia, a world beyond the high water mark of the tourist tide that sluices through the Maine Coast every summer. As a visitor, one feels foreign, not catered to, an observer in a place and a culture where observers thankfully do not seem to have much influence. It’s a privilege to experience, and I suppose it cannot last. I am grateful to have seen it a few times.