Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for July 03, 2019

If you were going to an onsen in Japan, Luann, it would be a natural Jacuzzi.

I’ve got a bottle of Diet Coke and some Mentos. Will that work?

Is Luann unaware of what camping is?

Don’t worry Dez you will enjoy being …. Being lost that is!!!!

Wow 3 day in I already wish Luann would push Bernice out the door

Purple mountains majesties, check. The geese are flying…west for the summer?

Luann and Dez are meeting Bernice’s expectations.

It’s the calm before the storm. Or at least before the hilarity ensuing.

“Let go of knowing,” Dez? What are you going to use instead? The Force?

I’m not so sure about hilarity ensuing, but I imagine some poison ivy might…

Then they go to the yoga campground and see dozens of people like Dez on their yoga mats in the downward dog position. At which point, Bernice says, “Naturalist has fooled her friends in going to yoga camp.”

Whose gear sailed off the top? I assume Luann, as Des apparently didn’t bring so much as a toothbrush, and Bernice would never have done anything as dumb as leaving her gear on top of the car.

So, if this were 9 Chickweed Lane, we could look forward to Luann and Jack doubling up in his sleeping bag. And seeing a single night stretched out to three or four weeks of appendages.

Since it isn’t 9 C.L. I wonder what will happen? (dramatic music).

Well, let’s see. Mountains behind them, tiny, unpaved road under them, no Starbucks in sight. Okay, that’s enough roughing it, I’m going home.

There are people like that in real life. A friend of mine even asked where the showers and the convenience stores were. We were camping out in Grand Tetons with a wilderness permit and we gave her a look, like, For reals?

I assume that Luann gear flying off the top of the rooftop.

First night, in the woods, no light, strange noises, bugs everywhere!!

Frame 2 and Frame 3 Bernice’s dry wit at its very best…

Frame 3: Please tell me Luann is trying to be funny…

That’s not all that passed…

Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, and kill nothing but time. Of course, by the time this is all over and done with, they might kill Bernice.

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Weekend At Bernie’s …

Why does luann look like a den mother? I’m curious why her shirt has shoulder boards for epaulets.

While Dez communes with nature, Bernice communes with her handheld. Wonder what happens when she discovers there is no place to plug in her charger.

It’s about time for Luann and Dez to tell Bern to shove the smartphone and stop condescending as if they were objects. Already weary of the daily Bernice analytics this week.

Somebody needs to throw Bernice’s phone out the window, or at least tell her to shut it already.

And boy, are they making Luann look stupid here.

Is it going to be the same joke every day?

No jury would convict them.

Wouldn’t it be funny (hilarity ensuing?) if their “campground” turned out to be a naturalist retreat (nudist camp)? LOL.

If I were there I think I would throw Bernice’s phone out the window.

Luann, for what you guys are paying to campout, you’ll be lucky if there’s a public shower.

The 1st sign of a bear no matter the size and they’re packing up and going back home.

I have the curious feeling that Bernice’s pad is going to be tossed into the first convenient body of water they happen along.

Luann is able to get emotionally involved at least a little. Bernice, tragically, not.I hope that by the end of the camp she will stop recording notes. They have to follow Dez’s mystical way.

Omg, I would grab Bernice’s phone and throw it out the window if she is going to narrate the entire trip

Will there be pranks like on the old Top Gear with Clarkson, May and Hammond?

The interesting part will come when Luann asked where the bathroom is and Dez points to a tree and says " over there behind that tree."

Embrace being.

I like the thought.

Luann, GPS stands for Global Positioning System.

You can’t see much when your face is buried in the phone.

“And the moment passes.” Bernice’s little internal comments are hilarious! She just has the knack! :o)

I thought to write a comment, but I’m so nervous for my math midterm this morning.

I didn’t realize Bernice was such a Trekkie.

Wait til they can’t find a place to plug in their phones.

yawn. Let me know when hilarity ensues. This is starting to feel like the play California Suite..when the stage keeps pivoting into a new room where a different set of characters are acting their bit. Yes..I’m either cranky because the coffee isn’t working yet or this is another group of cliches being trotted out yet again. How about something fun but imaginative?

I’d be eternally grateful if Luann or Dez would give Bernice a slap in the chops.

If the “global positioning system” won’t work, where are they going?

I can camp anywhere, anytime—except for insects. Insects are my downfall. That’s why I like to camp in freezing weather in the snow as high as I can get!

I would leave Bernice (and her phone) at the first bathroom stop.

Nope. The Jacuzzi Brothers are further north in Walnut Creek.

Their big mistake was to let Dez drive. Now Luann and Bernice will not be able to leave when they realize they are in the wilderness. They don’t even know where they are going, so they can’t call anyone to come get them. Dez won’t have any sympathy for their suffering.

A GPS would work. You might have problems getting a cell phone signal out in the middle of nowhere, however.

Okay, I know I cause a lot of outrage here whenever I call Luann stupid, but surely we’re not just gonna let this pass, right? I mean, can you really imagine any person of normal intelligence looking out at a campground in the middle of nowhere and thinking (much less saying) “Hmmm, I wonder if there’s a jacuzzi?” That’s a question a six-year-old might ask.

“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. Tour masters, schedules, reservations, brass-bound and inevitable, dash themselves to wreckage on the personality of the trip.”

John Steinbeck (1962) Travels with Charley

R.I.P. Artie Johnson, of Laugh-In fame.

When my son and I trekked out to Point Barrow, Alaska last year, we had no cell phone service, but we had preloaded the Google maps of the area, and the GPS still functioned and showed us where we were on the downloaded map. Of course, it was just 4 miles straight out and 4 miles straight back, but it gave us a reference of how far we had gone and how far was left to go. That day, the wind was blowing directly from the north at about 35 to 37 mph, and tiny shards of ice were hitting us in the face all the way out to the tip. That is off my bucket list now…

What is Bernice getting out of observing/recording the goings-on, other than ANNOYING the hell out of people?

I notice that Bernice is being critical of Luann for not “being in the moment” when Luann mentions a Jacuzzi. Meanwhile, Bernice is using a recording device. Hypocritical.

Luann is not the sharpest tack in the box.

And for God’s sake give Gunther a pair of cajones.

Luann definitely has a one track mind ….

https://www.gocomics.com/luann/2019/05/27

Bernice is funny; I love her dry sense of humor.

Berniece is too busy writing to be in the moment. She should talk.

Luann has the mind of a glamper.

Yes, there will be a Jacuzzi. But it’s more commonly known as a lake, a pond, or a stream.

Given that GPS is used in airplanes, it had better work everywhere (or at least everywhere where’s a view of the sky). Speaking of which, I was waiting for a flight last month when there was an announcement: “Ladies and gentlemen, the flight to Aspen will now be diverted to Grand Junction as the plane’s GPS is not working, making it unsafe to attempt a landing there.”

Brad and TJ had a disastrous camping trip several years ago. I suspect this will be worse!

⇧ moron…

and they are still unaware of the equipment they left behind.

Oy! Are you even half-serious, Luann?! You are beginning to make Bernie seem tolerable….