Frazz by Jef Mallett for August 01, 2023

No, no, your first thought was the correct one. Thru-hike or virtual thru-hike are both still hiking, which has been known to take a toll on underwear.

Besides, if Mr. Spaetzle is like most of us, er, of a certain age, his current underwear is almost certainly older that you!

It’s the thought that counts??

If he’s halfway through the hike, he should turn around for the return trip. Start walking around the cemetery counter-clockwise?

Dr Spaetzle needs Frazz?

The word ‘virtual’ keeps being inserted as if it is in some way a separate activity from actually walking or perhaps a slighting reference, as in ‘not the real thing.’ Don’t think that’s the intention but it becomes more prominent with each arc.

Virtual fresh underwear….. just slightly more popular than the emperor’s new clothes.

Lots and lots of Thru Hikers go commando, . . .

August 5th is National Underwear Day.

I guess this is what creative people are forced to do when they don’t have any new original ideas and there are deadlines looming — just beat an old one to death, then keep resurrecting its corpse so you can beat it some more.

This is why I dislike stationary bikes. However far you go, you have to stop, pick it up, turn it around, and do the same distance back.

I remember reading some of the journals of people who’d cycled across the US as I planned my own trip. My favorite was a man who started in Portland, Maine, camped along the way, and did his first laundry … in Iowa!

How would they know what type of underwear Mr. Spaetzle wears?