PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The day after leaving office following an eight-year stint as Maine’s governor, Angus King hit the road.
For the next 5 1/2 months, King, his wife and their two children lived together in a 40-foot RV, driving 15,000 miles and traveling through 33 states.
The journey was King’s way of making the shift from being “The Man” with a staff, constant press attention and 24-hour-a-day police protection to being “simply a man,” he writes in his new book, “Governor’s Travels: How I Left Politics, Learned to Back Up a Bus, and Found America.” The book will be on bookstore shelves in mid-July.
“The trip turned out to be the perfect transition from a job like governor because it was utterly different from what I had been doing, but it was still engaging,” King told The Associated Press. “I didn’t go from the intensity of being governor to sitting in a rocking chair and reading a newspaper. I went to something that was very engaging. But instead of worrying about the Legislature, I was worrying about whether the next RV park had a dump station.”
King was elected governor as an independent in 1994, his first run for public office, and was re-elected in a landslide in 1998. Prohibited by law from running for a third term, he left office in January 2003.
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