Uncharted Territory

Hello internet world!!

Welcome to my first ever blog!  I have decided to start writing a blog for various reasons, a few of which include: the strong desire to practice writing (a skill I haven't used enough since graduating college),  the chance to share with readers a glimpse into my life (a lot of which is quite mundane), and most importantly, because I have a lot of free time (and after maxing out on quality TV by consecutively watching The Wire and The Sopranos, I need a new, more productive hobby).  I am sure that my first post won't be as good as my second post, which won't be as good as my third post, but I am hopeful that this will help me improve as a writer and become something that I look forward to doing!
I suppose that I should tell you a little bit about myself.  My name is Noah, I had the great fortune of growing up and spending the majority of my formative years in Maine.  For those of you that have trouble with geography, Maine is not part of Canada, but it isn't far off.

Maine is the one highlighted in red!

Maine is a place that I could spend pages talking about, but I'll try to keep it to a few sentences.  When I went to England a couple of weeks ago, (I went to England a couple of weeks ago, it was amazing, more to come on that at a later date) I was speaking with a guy that was my age about the summer camp that I work at (Camp Bishopswood, also amazing, also will come later), and told him that it was located in Maine.  Quick digression, if you reference a place that isn't N.Y.C., D.C., or L.A. to most people in England, you should be prepared to give relative location based on those cities.  Anyways, after describing where Maine was I told him that it is a must visit in the states, naturally he followed that up with "Why should I visit Maine?"  I thought about this for a few seconds, trying to put into words why Maine is so spectacular, and settled for something like: "The scenery is absolutely incredible."  I was surprised when he said "Isn't that what all the states will tell you?"  I processed this question, and it wasn't a wholly unreasonable response, there are songs devoted to how incredibly beautiful America is (America, the Beautiful, the eagle montage at the beginning is particularly moving), but Maine is definitely a poster boy for the United States and beautiful scenery. To prove my point I will include a few photos that were taken by my girlfriend (not a professional photographer) that illustrate just how wonderfully photogenic Maine really is:

West Quoddy Head Light (Lubec, ME)

Baxter State Park

Random Farm (Vassalboro, ME)

Lake Megunticook (Hope, ME)

 Told you!
Anyways, If I wasn't clear enough, Maine is beautiful.  The best part about Maine however, is that looks aren't just on the outside, Mainers are generally really good people.  I could continue on and on, but if you are from Maine, you already know all of this and if you aren't, please visit and see for yourselves!
I realize that I haven't told you much about myself, because I got caught up with Maine, but I was molded in a significant way by Maine, so I had to give it at least a bit of air space!

I am going to try to write at least of few of these per week, so if you enjoy keep reading, and if you don't, that is okay too!!
 I'll leave you with this, because it's tomorrow, and I'm excited (and The Killers are a great hype band):