Maine invites you to slow down and enjoy quality time together as a family. Here's where to learn about lobster, eat endless ice cream, and play in the sand. Marissa Hermer is a Los Angeles-based entrepreneur and restauranteur behind Boujis Group The Draycott and Olivetta , as well as an avid travel enthusiast, gourmand, and mother of three. I first met Maine in the L. Bean catalogue that was delivered to my Laguna Beach childhood home.
I had never seen a rubber-bottomed boot, a Victorian home, a technicolor lobster buoy, nor a proper winter jacket โ and the pages of plaids in woods and fleeces on pebbled beaches birthed a yearning to travel to the North Atlantic. When it came time to choose a college, the allure of the Northeast was irresistible, and so I chose a small town in Vermont to spend four years, bundled up in a proper winter jacket.
I have been craving the Atlantic sunset light, the general stores, fireflies in the grass, and oysters to start every meal โ a ritual I grew to love during my college years. And for the parents, camp drop off and pickup offer the perfect opportunities to soak up all that is Maine. Maine is the panacea for feeling frantic and disconnected. Here, the passage of time is welcomed, not mourned.
It is where Thoreau went to "shake off the village" amongst the trees. Trees know about slowing down. Maine is where we went to create a parenthesis in time, bookending summer camp. In the summer, people in Maine are barefooted, light-footed, and surefooted. The dailiness of life is honored here โ its no surprise E. White wrote most of his pieces while living in Maine, slowing it all down to notice even a small barn spider and her web. Hidden Pond Resort.
Cottages, bungalows, and treetop lodges dot the 60 acres of birch tree wilderness. Hidden Pond Resort feels like a family summer camp โ it was the perfect warmup before the boys went off to their own summer camp.
