Here I am, sitting down and enjoying a cup of coffee. It was a good day today. SWMBO requested that we do an activation in Maryland and, of course, her wish is my command. 🙂 We had breakfast at the Newville Diner and I considered our options. I decided to do a 2fer … a location that counts as 2 parks. We went down to South Mountain State Battlefield SP and Washington Monument SP (US-6390 and US-1604 respectively) and got set up. As per usual, I had my FT891 and was using “hamstick” style antennas on a mag-mount.We worked 37 contacts in a very short time; it took less than hour. Mostly I had the rig set on 40M but then I gave 10M a try. Europe and GB were coming in nicely. SWMBO suggested that we activate Greenbriar SP US-1575 as it was only a couple miles away. I opted to work 10M since I had good results. The first 2 parks are on a mountain and Greenbriar is down below in a hollow. In a short while we had worked 19 stations including France, Austria, Poland, Wales, Scotland and England. We worked as far west in the US as Colorado. 10M was booming. I even had a local ham come back to me. He was only a few miles away and surprised to work anyone this close on 10M.We didn’t have any encounters with people though we got a lot of curious stares at both locations. The sun was shining and it was nice and warm. We didn’t hear any birds today but maybe next time. I have been perusing maps and there are a lot of State Parks in Maryland to explore though I am nowhere done with PA. It is just good to go out of the state now and then. I have a long stretch at work coming up but afterwards we might take a little road trip. Who knows. 🙂 Well enough for now. Time to relax and drink coffee. Namaste, kidlets.