Portland, Maine life and a Commitment to Blog

I officially did it.

I managed to ignore posting for exactly 272 days -- just as a drew it up. I had considered pushing the blogging back another hundred or so days, but something about a nice round number like 272 really prompted me to sit down and type something up. Believe it or not, I was also just eating a bowl of frosted flakes and I thought that blogging was the perfect complement.

So what have I been up to over the past 9 months?

Well... I wasn't working... and then I was working. I set aside the freedom of an unemployed marketer and photographer hobbyist for the shackles of a 9 to 5 Digital Paid Search Marketer gig. Okay, it's not quite that dramatic -- but as someone who gets anxious when not having multiple trips planned in a 6 month stretch, being tied down to a real job can be a mental drain.

For those who don't know (probably most of you if anyone is reading this 🤔), I started working in Portland, Maine this past March. After commuting 64 hours per day for three months, I eventually decided to stick around the area and become a half New Hampshirite/half Mainer in July. Being that I had only one friend in Maine, I've been dedicating my last few months to relationship building and kicking ass at Kickball and Volleyball. One thing that I've learned from my first summer in Maine is that Mainers aren't the naturally gifted sports superstars that we New Hampshirites are. Each club sport has felt like a teaching moment in the sense that I need to explain to Maine folk the proper way to play said sport.

In addition to moving around, I went on an adventure-packed trip to Norway this summer. For roughly 8 days I traveled around the Scandinavian country with my two travel besties, traversing mountains, circling fjords, watching midnight sunhovers, and having my Nutella jars broken in the cruelest ways possible. Just a quick thought... you can't technically circle a fjord since part of it is open by definition... so it would be more of a crescent shape, right? Regardless, I am hereby declaring the term 'crescenting' to be an official word in the BPOW Dictionary. I actually have a series of blogs lined up (I haven't even begun to think of what to write) that I will be posting over the next few weeks as I get back into blogging. Stay tuned! I'm super serious that I'm actually going to blog again. I want to share some stories of past trips and share some itineraries!

YAWN

Anyways, the clock just struck 10:37pm, so I'm getting really exhausted and I'm going to cut this post short... and likely not post again for 2 years. As a gift for still reading my blog, I will leave you an image that I recently took on a weekend trip up to Acadia National Park in the Bar Harbor, Maine area. It's one of many sunrise photos that I took and plan to add to the Maine Collection and for sale at my new online store page.

Cheers,

Brian