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November 02, 2006
Huh?
Well this is an unexpected story:
MILLINOCKET - As tourist destinations go, they all just roll together right off the tongue: Kailua, on the island of Oahu. Macon, Georgia. Vail, Colorado. Millinocket, Maine. Eureka, California.What?Yeah, you read that right.
Millinocket.
The Magic City is ranked 6th among the Top 10 Hot U.S. Travel Destinations for 2007 by the travel Web site TripAdvisor.com. It beat out larger and better-known tourist havens such as Vail, Eureka, and Franklin, Tenn., an area steeped in Civil War history and home to many well-preserved antebellum and Victorian-era structures.
This is easily the weirdest story I've read this week.
Posted by slublog at November 2, 2006 09:31 AM
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When I hear the name Millinocket, I have flashbacks to the time we led a group of junior high kids up Katahdin and stayed in Millinocket that night. What a long weekend that was.
Posted by: Dan Dunkle at November 2, 2006 09:40 AM
You've unleashed some long-dormant PTSD demons there.
Posted by: Slublog at November 2, 2006 09:46 AM
Just what we need: a bunch of suburbanites pulling into Millinocket wondering where the Starbucks is.
Posted by: mainiacjoe at November 2, 2006 11:03 AM
Look on the bright side - imagine the horror on the faces of those tourists the first time a full-grown moose wanders out of the woods.
Posted by: Slublog at November 2, 2006 11:06 AM
I don't get it - they don't even have the biggest ball of twine in the world.
Posted by: geoff at November 3, 2006 01:41 PM