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I hit terrible traffic after crossing the Maine border, but I finally arrived at Debby's home in Yarmouth shortly after 9 p.m. on Friday evening. I was starving, so she humored me by taking me to McDonald's for a lobster roll. (Yes! You'll find McLobster on the menu in many McDonald's in Maine.) We had to be up very early the next morning, about 3:30 a.m., in order to make the 3-1/2-hour drive to Millinocket to meet Dale Stevens.

We had no trouble following his directions, and it was still early morning when we arrived at our point of departure, presented our guide with Chocolate the Beanie Baby moose as a token of our appreciation, stopped in Millinocket to pick up sandwiches (Dale provided the cooler), and hit the road in the air-conditioned Maine-ly Photos van.

A native of the Katahdin region of Maine and a resident for more than 40 years, Dale knows the area inside and out and, as an employee of Great Northern Paper Company, he's even been able to secure commercial access to the paper company's privately owned "Golden Road," which runs all the way to Canada. The private road, which got its name from the huge cost of its construction, allows Great Northern Paper to transport its products without regard to the legal weight limits on public highways.

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The road also cuts through some of north central Maine's most scenic areas along the banks of the West Branch of the Penobscot River.

The West Branch of the Penobscot River. Photo by Kim Knox, 1998.

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