I have had a few days to reflect on our vacation and mourn its rapid demise. Thursday the 27th, we decided to active Franconia Notch State Park US-2653 which has only been activated 32 times. We found a good spot and quickly worked 13 contacts. My wyfe recorded red-eyed vireos, oven birds and black and white warblers. The most notable thing to happen was a pickup that had a horrible ignition noise pulled into the pull-off. Thankfully they left immediately. We then found our way into Bethlehem NH to Strawberry Hill State Forest US-4967 where we worked 11 contacts. Glory recorded red-eyed vireos and oven birds. The Forest is on the edge of town and has only been activated 5 times. It is quiet and very beautiful. This being our last day in NH, we wanted to do other things so we took off. We spent the rest of the time playing tourist and catching up on things which were on our list. Then we went back to our lodging and cleaned it up and got some sleep. At 23:45 we took off. There is no feeling like cruising down the interstates at legal speed (I had gotten pulled over earlier in the trip and was still paranoid about speeding so I kept the cruise control at 2 mph above the limit), strung out on a massive amount of caffeine flowing through my system (by 4 am I could see sound) and blasting Scandanavian Heavy Metal on the stereo. We made it home in 10.5 hours. It was nice to have a couple days to recover and let our cats re-acquaint themselves with us. Mayhem was very put out with us but finally let us back into her good graces. Marley and Kalamazoo and Foggy haven’t let me out of their sight and are competing for attention. Today, June the 30th, we went to breakfast at the Newville Diner and then went up to the 3 Square Hollow Vista in Tuscarora State Forest US-5479 where Glory recorded northern cardinals, indigo buntings, scarlet tanagers, red-eyed vireos and eastern towhees as I set up. We dived in and worked 34 contacts in an hour, watching fog move in and out of the area and squirrels playing. It finally got too hot and the humidity went over 8000% so we packed up and did some necessary shopping. When we got home we got rid of some trash and did some much needed exfoliating. Ok kidlets, ’nuff for now. Time to relax and enjoy the AC. TTFN and namaste y’all.