Stephen King tours in Bangor

Just received this email from Stu:

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It seems that MSN didn't send the notice to everyone, so I will try it this way.

Starting the first of July (hopefully) we are launching Stephen King Tours of the Bangor (Derry) area. At this time it looks like it will be a 3 hour tour, I have purchased a Chrysler 7 passenger van with all wheel drive (for those nasty winter tours!) and hope to get the new web page up in a couple of weeks. The tour will hit about 25 key places and we will sell T-shirts and other memorabilia along with it. The new e-mail address of SK-Tours@msn.com is effective as of today. Wish me luck!!

Stu Tinker

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Wicked! I hope to make it up there to take one someday!!! :excited::excited:

If I am ever there I would go!

I told my wife about this and her response was "When are we going?!?"

I'm hoping maybe in the fall.:thumbsup:

I was in Bangor last year - even visited Betts.
I doubt I'll be back (Betts was my Main(e) reason to go there), but if I will, I'll take the tour - definitely!

sk

I think this is a direct offshoot of the IT Tour that the SKEMERS took every year they visited Bangor - I went twice myself. We visited places that included:

• Stephen King's Home
• The Field of Screams (Baseball Park that SK had built)
• The Bangor Library (upgraded with SK & Tabatha Foundation)
• The Sewer Grate (IT)
• The Standpipe (IT)
• The Birdbath (IT)
• The Gazebo (Dead Zone)
• Paul Bunyan Statue (IT)
• The Barrens (IT)
• Mount Hope Cemetery (Pet Semetary)
• Bangor International Airport (The Langoliers)
• Downtown Canal (IT)
• Closed down factory near the river (Graveyard Shift)

And more that I can't remember! :-)

Here's hoping Stu does well in this new adventure!!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by CRinVA

I think this is a direct offshoot of the IT Tour that the SKEMERS took every year they visited Bangor - I went twice myself. We visited places that included:
[LIST][*]Stephen King's Home

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The King's never spend any time at that house anymore. They spend their time at Kezar lake when they are not in Florida.

When I visited Bangor in July/August, 2008, when we reached SK house he was entering the house from the car.

So in summer you might be lucky enough :)

You guys need to move closer to Bangor.:ninja:

Pictures of what will probably be seen on the Tour

Tommyknockers Tour:
http://www.bangorcvb.org/content/401..._Tabitha_King/

Did this tour ever actually get started, and if so, is it still available?

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Originally Posted by Randall Flagg

Did this tour ever actually get started, and if so, is it still available?

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http://www.sk-tours.com/

Still available and doing well; sounds like Stu has been pretty busy with tours this summer.

$39.95. Probably a good price.

Tours are still going. Hit them this fall when the leaves turn.
http://www.sk-tours.com/
http://www.sk-tours.com/images/648_Van.jpg

I've been on this tour and it's excellent. Stu has some great stories that I've never heard before. $40 is pretty cheap considering that probably just covers the gas, since he drives very far distances on the tour.

The house where SK lived when he sold Carrie I think has been demolished. That was the neatest thing to me that Steve was poor and literally moved 2 blocks away to the famous house.

Highly recommended!

The Main(e) problem with this tour is that Bangor is in the middle of nowhere. My company has an office in Lewiston, which is pretty far up there (2 hours north of Boston), and it's another two hours from Lewiston to Bangor.

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Originally Posted by Robert Fulman

The Main(e) problem with this tour is that Bangor is in the middle of nowhere. My company has an office in Lewiston, which is pretty far up there (2 hours north of Boston), and it's another two hours from Lewiston to Bangor.

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We have a different perspective down here in the Texas Panhandle where things are really spread out. Most of us would think nothing of a four hour drive.....especially if it was to do something really cool.

Here in the Netherlands a four hour drive will take you literally anywhere in the whole country...

It was 90 minutes from Bar Harbor/Acadia so if you're up there it's definitely worth the drive.

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Originally Posted by carlosdetweiller

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Originally Posted by Robert Fulman

The Main(e) problem with this tour is that Bangor is in the middle of nowhere. My company has an office in Lewiston, which is pretty far up there (2 hours north of Boston), and it's another two hours from Lewiston to Bangor.

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We have a different perspective down here in the Texas Panhandle where things are really spread out. Most of us would think nothing of a four hour drive.....especially if it was to do something really cool.

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At one point I had a brother and sister who both lived in Texas, and it was hard to comprehend that there was an 8-hour drive separating them.