Dan, we envy you for having 8 weeks to spend in this area! Let me spend a few of your tourist dollars right here...
If at all possible, part with about $600 and pay for you and your SO to board the CAT ferry with your vehicle and cross over to Yarmouth, NS for a couple days. There is nothing in South Carolina that compares, believe me! (Even the USS Yorktown wasn't this fast)
When your time is up in Maine you will wonder where it went. (And your money, too
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