For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for July 13, 2023

Kids and geography. Very interesting

The younger the kid, the more literal the guessing about the world and everything in it.

Im glad Elly let John and Mike have this quality time together- surprised she didnt insist on the whole family going.

Aypo needs a magnifying glass.

Haven’t been to London, Chatham and Hamilton for a while. Time for a road trip!

“Aypo” is too young (and not too bright) to understand map-reading, Elly.

“He’s so small!”

I wonder if John is regaling Mike with any more “stoopid” stories about his own college days.

April; Oh Daddy, Daddy! Where have you been?

Daddy; Oh Pussycat, Pussycat, I’ve gone to London to visit the queen.

My dad was a radio DJ. I though that if I shouted into the radio speaker loud enough, dad could hear me at the studio.

Why the assumption that April is “not too bright”?

And there I was thinking that London was in the UK.

Don’t show April an atlas. She’ll start getting ideas of places beyond her hometown.

I used to live in London (Ontario) when I was April’s age. It’s a nice city.

She will understand Waze better!

Us old fogies can use a map when the GPS crashes. I have a road atlas in the trunk next to a fire extinguisher. Hope to never need either of them.

Ancient reruns…

The map is not the territory, April.

Oh…. THAT London. I was thinking of “the other London”.

no daddy is not that small. :J

When it comes to map reading everyone has to start somewhere to get anywhere.

Elle, first you explain what a map is, THEN you show April where London is on the map. The devil is in the details Elle, the devil is in the details.

Great teaching opportunity, Elly!

Nowadays Elly would just get out her smartphone and “locate” him. I kind of like the old way. Puts locations in better perspective.

Reading this from Alabama. My son lives in Kitchner. He loves the Canadian life!

When I was in early grammar school I knew where England was because the BBC came thru on the shortwave band of our big radio.

Lynn Lake, is a town in Manitoba. They would drive east, around the great lakes, then south-west along Highway 4 to London.

Lynn Lake, in Ontario is just a lake. No town on the lake itself. The closest town in a ~16 minute car ride.

https://www.google.com/maps/search//@44.7085577,-76.5019946,16740m/data=1e31m131m61s0x4cd28c172925c143:0xb0e49e3acc7558602m22d44.71025882m22d44.6799752m25e2?entry=ttu

I don’t see him.

I loved the paper maps and used them as recently as 5 years ago on our cross-country RV trip. We also had a GPS which would let us know which of the roads were RV-friendly. I even could re-fold those accordion-pleated ones that the gas stations used to give away.

Cute

One lake is eerie and another has a superiority complex

Aww… you know really young children take things literally…

That’s an Eerie thought.

I keep a map book in my motorcycle saddle bag. If I’m out taking pictures, I just go where my handle bars are pointed, and I sometimes end up in East “wheretheheckamI?”The book has maps of every town in the state, so, I manage to find my way back…unless I haven’t, and am still out in the middle of nowhere…?

Only time I was near London was April ‘67 when bro-in-law was driving wife/sis, youngest sis & me at 3am west on the QE Way from Niagara Falls to Windsor in a ’66 Caddie..first time I heard The Doors’ full seven minute version of ‘Light My Fire’ on the radio because it caught the skip from WABC New York..it blew my 10 y.o. mind completely out !

If he left on the 401, he is in the 19 lane mess in Toronto. No Mountie will come to the rescue. . . . .