In July, 2011, I needed to escape from the high temperatures of my desert home, if only for a little while. In the U.S., there's not a much better place to escape from summer's heat than along the coast of Maine and so, that's what I did for eight days.

Maine's coast has a benefit other than the cooling breezes. You almost literally cannot turn around without stumbling over another place that serves lobster in a bewildering variety of ways. Being the glutton I am, I ate lobster almost every day, sometimes twice. ... (more)