Donât pay in cash. All fare payments are handled automatically by the Uber service and your credit card on file. If using the TAXI service, you can select the amount to be tipped through your Uber Payment Settings-the default is 20%.
Crown of Maine Balloon Festival. The Crown of Maine Balloon Festival is typically held during the last weekend of August at the Northern Maine Fairgrounds in Presque Isle. The festival features 15 colorful hot-air balloons that start launching at 5:30 a.m. each day.
Feel Like a Native: First, thereâs the drive in, a lovely trip along the peninsula south of busy Rockland (where the Maine Lobster Festival is held every August). Down here itâs a scene from a Wyeth canvas: forests of black spruce abutting saltwater farms; the scent of pine mingled with seaweed.