Hi kidlets. It has been a few days. My long suffering wyfe and I are on a long deserved vacation up in NH, cruising around. Mostly its been fun though there have been a few mishaps and an almost whoops. First, on the way up I was sorta spacing out and a NH State Trooper pulled me over after clocking me doing 57 in a 30 zone. I admitted to him It was my fault and that I was just spacing out. At this time I had been on the road for about 10 hours. I was totally amazed when he let us off with a warning. The ticket would have run $280! I cannot sing his praises long and loudly enough! Since then I have been minding the speed limits exactly. I have not been exceeding them at all which has, I am sure, pissed off some people driving behind me. At least I do exactly the limit and not 5 MPH below. Next, we met up with my brother Ted and his wife Nancy at the Mt Washington Cog Railway. We took a trip up to the summit and had a good time up there except for when my arthritis caused me to take a fall and skin both my knees, bend my arthritic toe backwards spraining it badly and hurting the hell out of my pride. I am getting better. Yesterday we drove around looking for cemeteries and also found some. Today we activated two parks. The first is the Nansen Wayside State Park US-2668 in Milan NH. It had only been activated 3 times (until today). We made 10 contacts in about 1/2 hour and moved on. We proceeded through the 13 mile woods looking for mooses and went to Errol NH to Cote’s store for an obligatory slice of pizza. We then set out for Forest Lake State Park US-2652 in Whitefield NH which had only been activated 6 times (until today). We made 16 contacts spanning from New Mexico to Sweden! The European stations were coming in good today on 17M. SWMBO is getting some good practice in listening to heavy accents and copying callsigns. She was enjoying herself. I am trying to find places that haven’t been activated often to give people a chance to get them in their logs. Well enough for now. Time to say namaste, kidlets.