

Breaking out of an East Coast Isolation
I was a locked up East Coast kid for a majority of my life. Growing up, my parents were too strapped to travel and some portions of Maine have a habit of sucking you in and never letting you out. To put this into perspective, I had never been outside the country or even seen New York City until college. However, about 35 years ago, my mother spontaneously broke from her shell and traveled to Chino, CA with her then-husband and his chopper motorcycle. She stayed there for a co