Frazz by Jef Mallett for July 13, 2023

My idea of that kind of vacation is a long train ride.

Gatorland Orlando!

Only the UNpopular ones. You can probably visit the Yuck-i-muck stockade park, or Mosquito City … without getting on a limited access multi-lane road. I’ve visited an excellent park (not a “theme” park though) that was accessed by several miles of gravel road, attached at one end to a two-lane “blue” highway…

Knoebels Amusement Resort in Pennsylvania, one of the best parks in the country that no one’s heard of.

Not that difficult.

Swamplandia! in the Ten Thousand Islands.

I remember stopping at Taquamanon Falls and there was a gas station with a pet bear.

REAL retro, you go back before they had theme parks! Ah, camping out in a big forest campground, roasting hot dogs and marshmallows over an open fire… that was sweet.

Retro – Picnic at a ‘lay-by’. Not an actual rest area with facilities.

Am I the only one that kinda wishes that sometimes Jef might name some the other charters? This is a very cool thread of a comic-strip.

We could all stand to follow William Least Heat Moon’s example now and then.

I’m with Frazz. A little clarification would help.

Universal Studios Orlando is off Kirkman, not a freeway. Disney World is off I-4.

Of course, getting to Orlando from Ohio without using a freeway would be time consuming.

I feel the Carpetbagger on YouTube has covered a few.

What? You didn’t drive down to Sandusky, Ohio, to Cedar Park? Oh the humanity!

You can absolutely get to a theme park without going on an expressway. Other roads do still exist. You just might need to do some old school wayfinding rather than asking Google Maps.

Disneyland is off the 405 freeway. Ain’t no expressways within a thousand miles.

Theme “parks” are least park-like places imaginable. Including expressways.

Your retro vacation won’t be complete until/unless you make sure to stop at a “Mystery Spot!”

Why is she talking about finding theme parks when she states that her retro vacation precluded them? Given Panel 2, Panel 3 is nonsensical.

Google Maps. Set it to “avoid highways.” The kid would know that. The cartoonist, apparently not.

Easy – Six Flags Great Escape is about 45 min from my house. Don’t need to get on the interstate to get to it.

Disney World without using expressways? Easy. But you do have to use the numbered road systems.Along the east coast, take US1, south or north depending on where you start, to US192 west. Continue to the WDW entrance.From the midwest, somewhere in Indiana, take US27 south to US192 east. Approaching the mouse from the other side. And if you’re good with a map, there are “unlabeled” entrances to the resort other than the main expressway-like entrances.