That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 27, 2023

“I’m sorry honey, I know how much you liked Denmark, but we just had to come back to Scotland,”

/// Forced to sail from their loved Scottish shore,

they fear they’ll see Lochaber No More.

They’ve been forced from their land

and she can’t understand

why they took the dog, not daughter Flor.

When they used to accidentally get on the E train instead of the A train, it was not big deal. But when they accidentally got on the boat to York instead of New York . . .

Agatha was drained and still confused. When Henry said he wanted to see the “junk in her trunk,” he didn’t help her unpack a single item.

That time Martha kept the leftover sushi one day too long

“Ah wunderrr if Ah left the wee oven on…”

“If I hear one more person sing a verse of ‘My bonnie lies over the ocean’, I’m tossing ’em overboard!”

I said, “Book us passage on an upper deck,” not on the open deck.

Their lives are completely upended/

A consequence not unintended/

But the golfing is grand/

where their hut used to stand/

One hopes that they aren’t offended..

When my inlaws escaped The Champlain in Surfside several years ago, that’s what they took, their phones, chargers and wallets.

“Wretched refuse” they once were called !/

(Are you not by that term appalled?)/

Though rejected they sailed/

They somehow prevailed -/

They were just temporarily stalled.

Never trust a Scotsman when he promises you’ll be traveling First Class!

Angus wanted to toss his deceased wife over the side of the ship (she’ll start to smell any time now) but he didn’t want to lose the family discount on the trip.

" ’Let’s take the budget option,’ you said. ‘We don’t need to pay for the extra amenities,’ you said. ‘The trip will be over in no time,’ you said. Agnes, you daft bint."

I know the light is better here, but I think I lost it over there.

One less thing for Customs to check. BTW, we’re on a different system.

To compound the tragedy, the ships gift shop only carried USBc cables.

They hadn’t been planning this flight/

Hence they’re traveling somewhat light/

They’re not “business class”/

They’re just blips In a mass/

Of poor people sharing their plight..

Their lives are completely destroyed./

They’re venturing into a void/

With a a couple of sacks/

And the clothes on their backs:/

Small wonder that they are annoyed..

After two weeks on the ocean they began to wonder if this really was the Alps.

They ran out of Dramamine the first week out.

They sell them in the gift shop

“What? Couldn’t make it to the railing this time?”

Lochaber No More: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Highland Clearances" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found, and once there find the text string Lochaber, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this painting. Other versions has the strip coloration image.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s A PRICELESS CLASSIC (2015) (December 30, 20176) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval, may take days while he’s away) pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. Only work so far by this artist used here (3 times total, including this repeat and the 1/3/18 prior one), the November 13, 2015, strip being its first use. GoComics has deactivated the hyperlinks and removed the new lines in my comment there; but, perhaps the text remains informative.

“Lochaber No More,” 1883

Columbus sorry he brought his wife on board, she died half way and now he has to bury her in the Caribbean somewhere.

What?!

I thought you brought the fishing pole?

My original post 2015:

“I told her to pick up some Dramamine but nobody listens to the dog.”