When you live in Freeport, you occasionally need to get away!

I haven't been posting for the past week as it is Maine's February vacation and our family had a Colorado getaway. Here I am with my two boys, Phillip and Daniel on top of Snowmass earlier this week. Perhaps our family was the exception, because undoubtedly many Freeporters have skied the "loaf" or other fine Maine ski establishments like Sunday River, Mt. Abrams, etc. In fact, one Californian who rode with us up the chair lift asked me "Doesn't Maine have good ski areas?" Of course I answered a resounding "yes".

Heidi, my wife, is a travel consultant with her own travel website at http://www.mybesttraveldeals.net/ She knows how to save you money on travel and she did just that for our family for February break. We visited family in the greater Aspen area this past week so we had no lodging expense. We saved significantly on the airfare because my wife booked our travel on her travel website. We flew the outbound and return leg of our trip on a Thursday. Did you know that Thursday is the cheapest day of the week to travel? It would have cost us an additional $400 per person to travel on any other day. Our rental car that we picked up at Denver International Airport was almost as expensive as our plane tickets. Yet, with Heidi's travel agent discount we saved significantly on the car. When you live in Freeport or the Greater Portland area for that matter, you are in easy striking distance of Logan Airport, just a 2 hour ride on Concord Trailways www.concordtrailways.com We flew Midwest Airlines which has the most comfortable seating, business class leather seats with tons of leg room! Oh, did I forget to mention anything about Aspen real estate? Real estate is all about location, right? I saw ads in the Aspen Times for a 9,000 s.f., seven bedroom, seven bath home offered at $29,000,000. The former Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States has his home on the market for $110,000,000. Apparently, the ambassador sold his guest house for a mere $25,000,000. Anyway, it's nice to be back home, refreshed, and ready for a good solid spring Freeport real estate market.