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Coastal Maine = Lobster with Butter (and maybe a little lemon)

Coastal Maine = Lobster with Butter (and maybe a little lemon)

My very first time eating lobster was when I was 14 and traveling up the east coast from Georgia with my family to go pickup my brother who had just finished hiking the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine (that’s 2,175 miles) back in 1986.  Once we had left the northeast urban areas of New York and Boston, the road became surrounded with fur trees and less buildings.  I can remember breaking out onto the coast and seeing the craggy cliffs and lobster traps floating in the turbulent surf down below thus beginning my love affair with lobster (the other really good white meat).

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Worcester, Mass: Central Mass but close to everything

Worcester, Mass:  Central Mass but close to everything

Anywhere that is close to a major city usually gets the overflow of what the city has to offer.  In this case, Worcester, Massachusetts is just one of those places.  Being the second largest city and within an hour of Boston, Hartford and Providence and only three hours from New York City Worcester has all of the fine dining, lodging and activities that any major city could provide.  Worcester is also home to 13 colleges that give the town a younger feel. 

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