We're back. We stayed in downtown Portland and hoofed it everywhere. I don;t care if I don't eat any more lobster for months. We took a ferry over to Peak's Island yesterday and had a good time over there.

The weather was beautiful and the people were very friendly. It's amazing what you can get with a Southern accent.

I only had one incident in a restaurant/bar on Saturday night. The waitress had put the Alabama-Va Tech game on the TV for me and some yo-yo came in and asked her to change it to some stupid Big 12 game. He proceeded to tell me the Big 12 was better than the SEC and ACC combined. My wife interceded and the waitress gave me a smile and told the guy "no dice- it stays for the nice man from the South".

The women in Maine were but ugly. I took to calling them Maineyaks because they all looked like pack animals.