Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 30, 2010

Ah, camping!

I used to like camping……yep….I could unwind…..

My honey took the kids swimming, and I’d sit under a tree reading…….ahhhhhhhhhh…the good life!!!

Calvin seems to have mastered this quality from his dad. He’s a master of making everyone around him miserable.

My dad likes to see everyone else suffer too. I feel your pain, Calvin.

I like camping!

My Dad started taking me camping in 1944 to the Adirondack Mountains, every year, canoeing,mountain climbing and just plain old relaxing. Wish he was still here to do it….

Calvin, I used to love to suffer like that………….

I’m a rain magnet when it comes to camping in a tent. My parents were into going to “camp” which had the same activities but much drier. Now I like the whole picnic and swim at the beach with the family activity. Since we live in the country we moreless go to camp everyday, which I love.

Try primitive camping sometime. You take, ware, and use only what your ancestors would have had available to them crossing the western plains. Lot of fun even in the planning for it.

I like going out to the woods and making camp.

I like hiking through the woods.

I like sitting around a campfire.

I like sleeping in the woods.

I hate waking up in the woods feeling nasty and smelling like stale smoke. First thing in the morning, I want a shower.

Wow!!! Calvin gave up so easily without any tantrums?

Ah camping! No TV, no refrigerator, no electronic ways to kill time, no… Well, maybe not.

Actually, Calvin, I think Dad’s pretty oblivious to your suffering, save as it builds character in you.

That’s, uh, quite a character that’s resulting from the effort…

And in the next strip, we see Calvin shrivel up and die :P

Calvin’s a complicated little guy…apparently he doesn’t appreciate “the simple life” or “plain old relaxing.” I hope this storyline continues for a few days. Instead of unwinding, Calvin will probably just get all wound up. :-)

gosh! they are running away!

when it rains when you go camping (not so bad if you pitched your tent correctly) does someone always have to see if, per some old episode of Leave it to Beaver, touching the tent causes it to leak? Yes it does, at least with the cloth tents we used to use…

oh, and don’t pour gasoline on the fire from a Dixie cup, unless you want to make an ash of yourself…

:)

Grew up camping. Spend exactly one night in a hotel before I was 20. Everything else was tenting, even when we went off to relatives’ weddings. We were rather rain magnets ourselves. Once we went to Colorado, and from the day we got there till we left it rained. Funny thing was, some lady said, “Wow, we’ve been in a drought till this week.”

My wife hates camping. We went out to Montauk once, and it rained every day. That was the end for our camping life. Now I only go with my son’s scout troop.

Calvin, you can do the same things on camping trips that you do at home. And there is more wide open space, too!

G’Morning Mike, Grog, Marg & Fran!

“Well, there’s no delaying the inevitable.” Don’t put off until later what you must do anyway, especially if there will be negative consequences for putting it off. It reminds me of a saying. “Let’s get it over/done with.” …with what? Isn’t ‘with’ superfluous?

And I’m sure you’ll return the favor every minute you’re there, Calvin. I don’t suppose you’ll give your old man a break this time around.

Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠

For once, I’m with Calvin. MY idea of “roughing it” is staying at a Motel 6, thank you very much!

“…camping on some desolate rock at the end of the earth.” Camping ‘rocks’, Calvin! …well, maybe not for everyone. At least that’s better than camping ‘between Scylla and Charybdis’ (the possible genesis of ‘between a rock and a hard place’), although literally, it’s ‘between a rock and a whirlpool’. “Therefore, whosoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house/tent upon a rock:” Matthew 7:24

I’m with Calvin. Not interested in any acitivity that lacks access to electricity and modern plumbing.

I live on the side of a mountain, in basically what used to be a hunting cabin, so camping for me isn’t all that… haha. I like to get away from the woods!

I never have been camping and never will. The closest I will come to camping will be a cabin with running water and electricity. Totally on Calvin’s side.

LeslieAnne, “Climb every mountain, ford every stream follow every rainbow, till you find your dream A dream that will need all the love you can give every day of your life for as long as you live.”

cdward, There are many Montauks. Are you referring to Montauk State Park in Missouri (since you mentioned camping in Colorado)? Does your wife really hate camping, or rain while you’re camping?

legaleagle48, “We’ll leave the light on for you”

Ah yes, Camping. I was so traumatized by camping in Girl Scouts, that for me, my idea of camping these days is a motel that doesn’t have a hair dryer or mints on the pillows!

If Dad didn’t get ‘wound up’, he wouldn’t have to unwind! “He likes to watch us all suffer.” It helps him unwind! Hobbes won’t be complaining, except maybe to Calvin, privately!

P.S.. legaleagle 48, We spent exactly one night at Motel 6 last year. Never again! One of the worst motels ever.

Puddleglum2…. How did you know my mom’s favorite movie is the Sound of Music????

we appreciate your sacrifice among heavy burdens calvin

do forest rangers go to motels to get away and relax?

LeslieAnne, It was just a wild guess. Actually, it’s a favorite movie of many people. You didn’t let the Ekert out of your ‘hunting cabin’, did you?

My dad likes to mountain bike. My dad’s dad likes to fix cars. Calvin’s dad likes to watch Calvin suffer! What a great hobby!!

Why would Dad want to go camping?remember last yr.

Puddleglum2… I figured as much… And not that i know of!

I they go to a cabin, I hope they get the right one.

Being Miserable builds character!

Oh boy!–We’re going camping! with Calvin and Hobbes and mom ….and dad.

Oh nooo!

i go camping in the total wilderness….the border waters between Canada and minnasota….over a million acres and no power boats allowed. thats quiet and relaxing

what is this, the p & l chat room?

@billdi… would you like to have a discussion about the Sound of Music?? What was your favorite part??

We’re all going to Geek’s Neck! To meet the Otterloops from “Cul de Sac”! YAY!!

My dad was the hunting editor of Field & Stream magazine, many years ago. At one point we went hunting for some five weeks near Whitehorse, living off the land pretty much. When we returned to civilization and went into the lobby of the hotel to get rooms, we smelled so much of horses and ourselves no one else could stay in the room with us. So much for hot showers…..hahahaha…I miss him very much…

Poor Calvin…

I love camping!

You go, girl! Send the Ekert to meet billdi! billdi would be transformed from a Danae to a Kate. :o) Here’s a great definition of non sequitur. I could wish I had made it up myself. “Any inference that does not follow from the premises; specif., any fallacy resulting from a simple conversion of a universal affirmative proposition or from the transposition of a condition and its consequent.” Anyway, we were at least somewhat in context with the ‘camping’ theme of the cartoon. He just tries to rattle my chain.

Watch it Calvin. Dad just may decide to end his suffering by leaving you there–or feeding you to the bears

cdward – yeah we found the rain in Colorado too – they told us it rains 5 days/year in Denver and we hit 3 of them. Luckily, we were not camping.

THEY ARE RUNNING AWAY FOR HEAVENS SAKE! with the car! BOOM!

seems we were just camping with Calving just a few months back…. hehe