It was a great way to start the new year. We stopped off at the local Mom-And-Pop for coffee and Lo! and Behold! I had forgotten my wallet. SWMBO did not laugh too much, though and we only had to backtrack about 5 kilometers to get home and retrieve my wallet. We got back on the road and did a little drive through Maryland, scouting some possible future parks to activate. We finally arrived at Cunningham Falls State Park US-1566 and got set up. The wind was blowing a bit, peaking around 18 KPH and the temperature was about 1 C. I had brought my owl Ptolomey with us but when I placed him on the hood in his usual spot he got blown off and I had to chase him across the parking lot. It was a bleak and blustery day. There weren’t any birds around; wildlife seemed to be hunkered down. It took only minutes to get set up and we started calling on 40M. We started logging right away and in a few minutes had 10 contacts which made it a legitimate activation. We logged a total of 15 before swapping bands. The second band we used today was 17M. We quickly got answers from Texas, Louisiana, California, Florida and, from Europe: France and Italy. We made a total of 25 contacts on this band. For spotting I use the POTA.app page, a thread in Facebook Messenger, the FB pages of two groups I belong to and DXSummit.fi all of which seem to spread the word of an activation really well. After all was said and done. it was a good start to the year. Some might think I lead a boring life but it suits me just fine. Simple is much more better and a lot less stressful. Now I am in a nice warm house and enjoying coffee. Enough for today, kidlets. Namaste.