Where I Always Start My Day

You can’t possibly have a bad day after waking up to a view like this. This is the absolute definition of tranquility. The calm breeze cools down the morning sun. The loons on the water create a hypnotizing melody. Pure bliss. If I could wake up here every morning nothing could ever go wrong.

Migis Lodge is a quaint cabin resort nestled in the woods on the edge of Sebago Lake in western Maine. This lakeside lodge was built in 1916 as a men’s-only fishing camp called National Camps and then transformed into a family retreat in the 1980s. Interestingly enough, through research, I found that it was renamed Migis (My’ gus) in 1924, which is an Abenaki Indian word for “the place to steal away to rest.” I truly couldn’t describe this place better.