We spent two weeks away, most of it in Maine, despite my aborted sailing voyage. Nine nights we were in rented accomodations -- from a bed and breakfast to housekeeping cabins -- and five we stayed with relatives.
Maine by land is quite different from Maine be sea. We prefer the latter, having now sampled both.
The highlights of the trip turned out to be the people we visited. My cousin, Bill, who shares a birth year with me and whom I hadn't seen in 29 years, was our host in Machiaseport, a very remote fishing village near the Canadian border. He was  the same wonderful person as  the kid with whom I spent time duirng childhood.
At the other end of the spectrum were Astra Haldeman and Lou Gallagher, a couple whom we met when, as kids, they attended, and then were instructors in, our local sailing school. Astra now works in the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Lou is captain of the Helen Brooks, a charter Friendship Sloop, seen below, and they live in Northeast Harbor aboard a 33-foot wooden gaff-rigged ketch, the Evelyn, which I was privileged to visit during a fog-bound downpour. I'll post a picture of the interior of the Evelyn. It was raining too hard to take photos of her exterior.