It is easy to make fun of the romantics and the starry-eyed tourists but I'll grant that is a bit unfair. Flying home over Penobscot Bay when the weather is fine must rank up there among the greatest scenic experiences you can find in this country, and we just take it for granted, gossiping into the headset with the pilot about who's getting the flowers or the pizza or the whiskey in the back of the plane.

It's not as if those of us who live here don't indulge in a little