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I am in Brewer, Maine right now, visiting.  About a month ago, I had reserved this trip through one of the many flight websites which I can't seem to separate from each other. There are Travelocity, Expedia, Orbtiz, CheapFlights, to name a few. I made the reservation from work, and the dates were January 20th through the 26th. I didn't, however, ever receive a travel confirmation email from the website. So I forgot about it and went about daily tasks, figuring U.S. Airways would eventually email me the itinerary. They didn't.     A few days before I was about to leave, I decided it would be good to print out the itinerary so I would have the details about when/where/with which airline I was traveling. Using the Gmail in-box search function I typed "portland airplane trip" and it came up with one search result, from Expedia. I looked at it, and it said "San Francisco to Portland ME January 21; flight time: 11:46am; United" and I thought quickly, 'oh ...

In late January 2011, eastern Maine is cold and dry. The new buildings abound, but this one stuck out the most to me. Chris, my brother took this photo. At first glance, I thought it was a rehabilitation center. He later informed me that it was, in fact, Supercuts.