Vacations where the radio came along. What fit in the suitcase, what the rental would tolerate, and how the bands behaved from someone else's balcony. Where a trip included a park, the activation write-up lives on the POTA page and is linked from the story.
A week on the gulf side with a 40 m end-fed halfwave, a painter's pole, and a firm rule about not putting holes in anything. Includes the mounting trick that survived four days of onshore wind and the salt-air damage report that followed it home.
The full pack list, weighed, with the three things I'd leave home next time.
Ten days of sunset logs, and what the salt-water path west was really worth.