That's just the way it is with all ham radio awards, the more you advance the harder it is to find new ones. Just hang in there, and maybe you'll work more with the passage of time. (Wonder where I heard that word salad before)
With Crozet out of the way, now need North Korea and the Scaffold Rocks for #1. Maybe if I hadn't been an over-the-road trucker and gone for 1-3 weeks at a time I would have those already. And maybe not, I'll never know. Don't know if the chance will come to work those in my lifetime, only the passage of time will tell. When the Grand Reaper says,
"It's checkout time," I'll either have those two, or I won't. When that day comes, it won't matter to me nor anyone else.
As for North Korea, we don't know what lies ahead. A regime change doesn't sound likely, but we don't know what will occur. If Fat Boy kicks the bucket or is incapacitated and his sister is next to lead, I believe she would be worse than him. But who knows what will happen.
As for the Rocks, there's not much hope with the dispute between China and the Philippines. Maybe one day it will be below water at high tide and no longer meet the criteria for which it was grandfathered. Don't want this nor any other country/entity deleted simply because it's hardly ever activated.
Speaking of how awards get harder as you advance, I'm experiencing that now with 60M. It's like déjà vu all over again, feel like a newcomer. Started with 2 countries on Jan 17, and didn't have any US states. This is already confirmed...
60M