This year my son Wesley was at our local Reny's department store in Gardiner and he saw they had a passport program where you traveled to all 19 locations and get a stamp on the proper page and you can get prizes. With your 9th stamp get a $10 gift card and a Reny's chocolate bar. Collect all 19, we you get tour of the warehouse and corporate office, meet a member of the Reny's family, get a goody bag, and get places on the Reny's Hall of Fame board. It took about 6 months, but we completed the passport and now we are waiting for them to schedule his tour.
We definitely spent more money traveling around the State to each location than we get in prizes, but it gave us a reason to go to Dexter, when we normally wouldn't go. With this journey concluded I thought it would be fun to find similar programs for us to tackle.
The Maine Library Association has one, https://mainelibraries.org/passport, however it ends at the end of this year and with only a couple months left if they do it again next year we will tackle that one.
Sherman's book store has 10 locations across Maine and with their passport program if you visit all 10 you get a $50 gift card to Sherman's. Had we known about this one sooner, 7 of the 10 towns have a Reny's as well. We all enjoy reading so we will all get a passport to get stamped.
The Maine Bureau of Park's and Lands has a program, it costs $1 for the passport and you get prizes for every 8 State Parks you visit.
I think it would be fun if there was a Maine Candlepin bowling passport program. Visit a center, bowl a string, get a stamp and when you go to so many win a t-shirt. There seems to be A LOT of candelpin bowling alley's in Maine.
Until Next Time!
