For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for August 19, 2024

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    9thCapricorn  3 months ago

    At age 4, she’s too young to know about the Disney park, less where it is. She’s talking about the one in Florida but the original is in California. Heck there are parks all over the globe now.

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    AllishaDawn  3 months ago

    There is a park in northern Ohio, right next to the lake. Cedar something, I think. They could stop there.

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    howtheduck  3 months ago

    Through Minnesota, Lake Michigan, Detroit, then Toronto. I remember this story from back when it was originally published. Lynn Johnston does amazing research on each location and the Patterson kids learn a lot from each place. It’s a fabulous story. I just hope they reprint the comic strips in all their detail.

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    maherchebib  3 months ago

    See they are going to take the southern route.

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    snsurone76  3 months ago

    A long road trip around Northern US with a 4-year old in tow? John and Elly are fools!

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    Asharah  3 months ago

    I remember a story online about vacation disasters. OPs parents decided to drive from Ohio to Disney in Florida. Dad didn’t bother to make a reservation for the night they would be on the road, he said they could just find a hotel when they got tired. Might have worked at any other time, but he didn’t think about a little thing called the Atlanta Olympics. When he was ready to stop for the night, there wasn’t a hotal room available for 200 miles.

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    jmworacle  3 months ago

    Their loan for the funds were denied by the bank.

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    eced52  3 months ago

    I live in the Anointed States? Cool.

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    Tantor  3 months ago

    Yes

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    KC135E/R BOOMER  3 months ago

    Save your money kid. It isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

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    LeslieBark  3 months ago

    Disneyland opened a month before my 11th birthday, and having watched the Disneyland TV show for the past year, I was in a fever to go (we lived just a half-hour drive away). I finally got to go on my birthday (just as well—there were some opening-day glitches that needed working out). In college my roommate and I would save our pennies (literally—I cashed in about a dozen penny rolls for one trip) and take 3 busses from Riverside to Anaheim to spend a glorious day. And in the 1990s I began taking my niece whenever she visited, following my usual adult pattern—up at 5 AM, drive from Ventura, get to the park before the gates opened, hit all the popular rides in the morning while the crowds were thinner, then eat lunch and stroll and take in the less popular rides (particularly ones where you got to sit down someplace cool). We’d stay until the park closed … but the drive home was a monumental struggle to stay awake! (I always managed to make it safely). Sadly, it’s too expensive and crowded nowadays, and there are too many thrill rides now, which this aged and motion-sick-prone body can no longer handle, so I stay home, watch “How Disney Changed the World” on the History Channel and reminisce about the “good old days” when Disneyland and I were both young.

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    nyrB Premium Member 3 months ago

    visit both grandparents in two different cities and then sightsee in detroit — what a vacation!

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    freewaydog  3 months ago

    Anointed States? LOL

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    SquidGamerGal  3 months ago

    Disney World? On a working man’s salary?! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!! Yeah… dream on, kid!

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    Steverino Premium Member 3 months ago

    Going through Minnesota? Be sure and eat some lutefisk.

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    MRBLUESKY529  3 months ago

    Sure, why not? Florida is on the way.

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    Bob Blumenfeld  3 months ago

    Ahhh. The southern route. Wave as you pass through the Twin Cities on I-94.

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    GirlGeek Premium Member 3 months ago

    No offense, but you’d rather go to Detroit rather than California? No wonder the girl was upset

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    baskate_2000  3 months ago

    Not even close, Kid!

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    Redd Panda  3 months ago

    Here’s today’s Fun Fact…all the Disney Parks have “Vomit Squads” on the ready at all times. Just what it sounds like, some kid barfs and they’re on the ball. Cleaning it up straight away. Must be a swell job.

    The parks have discrete doors, you don’t know they’re there, which are part of the parks’ behind the scenes maintenance facilities. When security detects a Vomit Event , the team goes to work.

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    win.45mag  3 months ago

    You’ve been indoctrinated enough, you don’t need disney.

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    The Great_Black President  3 months ago

    Figured April’s parents would be laughing at their daughter for saying something cute. Instead they looked shocked in the last panel.

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    smokysilver.so Premium Member 3 months ago

    Geez this trip is too long!

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    USN1977  3 months ago

    “Prior to and during the World War 2 years, a child’s life revolved around school and chores. As soon as you got basic motor skills, in most cases you were put to work helping out on the family farm. That started to change in the 1950s. Walt Disney invented childhood as we know it, and Dick Clark invented the teenager.” -Andrew Wilkow

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    ryanschafer77  3 months ago

    That is one HECK of a drive they’re talking about doing!!!

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    ctolson  3 months ago

    Taking the long scenic route huh! Why not just drive across Canada back to Mississauga and what’s in Toronto?

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    buckyteeth  3 months ago

    Going to see a little bit of Wisconsin, then through the UP. Maybe see some copper mines, Tahquahmenon Falls, the Mighty Mac. So much!

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    amanbe3  3 months ago

    My family moved to Orlando the summer I turned 11 in 1955. I graduated college in Orlando then moved away in 1970 before Disney opened. My sisters still live in the Orlando area and I am amazed at the changes when I visit them. Some changes, but not all, were positive. I’ve been to Disney World 3 or 4 times and have no desire to return.

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    Daltongang Premium Member 3 months ago

    Disney World. DISNEY WORLD!!! You don’t want to go to no stinking Disney World April. You want to go to Wally World.

    I found out long ago

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    It’s a long way down the Holiday Road

    (Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)

    Holiday Road

    Holiday Road

    Jack be nimble, Jack be quick

    (Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)

    Take a ride on a West Coast kick

    (Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)

    Holiday Road

    Holiday Road

    Holiday Road

    Holiday Road

    I found out long ago

    (Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)

    It’s a long way down the Holiday Road

    (Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)

    Holiday Road

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    Holiday Road

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    oish  3 months ago

    Take him to Detroit!

    No!!! Not Detroit!

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    ladykat  3 months ago

    No, April, not this time.

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    rhpii  3 months ago

    Stop at Valleyfair, Wisconsin Dells, Navy Pier, lots to do.

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    waynemadison  3 months ago

    Isn’t she older than 4 by now?

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    [Unnamed Reader - bddb15]  3 months ago

    Someone please remind me where this family lives.

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    BlitzMcD  3 months ago

    The answer to that last question should be a resoudnig NO. Addictive tourist trap. Too much to see in this world without letting life revolve around a cartoon mouse.

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    chuck  3 months ago

    They could always go to Wally World instead…

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    Watchdog  3 months ago

    No Disneyland, Minnesota will substitute.

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    The_Great_Black President  3 months ago

    Imagine a strip where the Patterson car is driving through a ghetto in Detriot.

    John: Elly, I do not like the looks of this neighborhood.

    Elly: Come on John, it is important for Elizabeth and April to witness the struggle.

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    [Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce]  3 months ago

    THE BIG TEST—How many times can you listen to “It’s A Small,Small World” in a row before you lose your mind?

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    EMGULS79  3 months ago

    Well they could stop at Greenfield Village in Dearborn before they get to Detroit. Better than Disney World’s Liberty Square!

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    John Jorgensen  3 months ago

    Anointed states?

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    lnrokr55  3 months ago

    Are we there yet…..;-) Have a good week chilluns !

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    crazeekatlady  3 months ago

    Stop at Mall Of America.

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    g04922  3 months ago

    The Anointed States… too funny.

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    Strawberry King  3 months ago

    If only it was in the north, huh, kid?

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    Arghhgarrr Premium Member 3 months ago

    Sometimes I think I am the only American that has never been to a Disney Theme Park or any other type of amusement or theme park. Nor have I ever really wanted to. Just seems to be too many long lines, bad food, and crowds to make it worth the while.

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    vacman  3 months ago

    They have TV’s in Canada. I am sure the Mouse House advertises there. My four year old grandson has never been to Disney (any of them) but he knows Mickey Mouse and Disney.

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    CoreyTaylor1  3 months ago

    April’s kind of earned it, having had to spend a week each in two different FOGEYLANDS!

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    CoreyTaylor1  3 months ago

    April’s kind of earned it, having had to spend a week each in two different FOGEYLANDS!

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    Enter.Name.Here  3 months ago

    They SHOULD have detoured to one of the Disney parks. It wasn’t so greedy with admission and food souvenir prices back then.

    When I went to Disneyland for the last time in 1992 it was $32 admission. That would be $71 today but in reality it’s closer to double that now. The food and drink products also rose much faster than inflation. Buying up and tearing down all of the nearby cheaper motels I use to stay at doesn’t help. They also stopped the free shuttles to the park and make people pay to ride now.

    Disney Corp sees it all as a money-making machine now instead of a family park and only wishes to please stockholders with the maximum possible profit. I gave up going when they started the FAST PASS scam to let people wealthier than I cut in line ahead of me. Never again.

    Walt’s dream died long ago.

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    Fiammata  3 months ago

    Who needs it?

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    [Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce]  3 months ago

    August 21,2024—-front page of NEW YORK TIMES

    “Go To Disney,Then Into Debt”

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