Saturday Comic

Last week we saw “Barefoot Barlow” make an appearance in Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. Here’s another strip in which he shows up, from May 4, 1971.

Snuffy Smith, May 4, 1971

That looks like a horrid place to try to walk even if shod (and those spikes would go right through a shoe sole). If you can’t go barefoot, that’s a hint that the area needs to be taken better care of.

 

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Saturday Comic

For today let’s go with the Barney Google and Snuffy Smith published on April 30, 1974. For being hillbillies, most of the characters don’t go barefoot very often. But Barefoot Barlow does.

Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, April 30, 1974

See how dangerous it is to go barefoot? 🙂

 

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The Real McLean

We’ve now progressed in my trip Out West to the second hike on my last day, August 31, 2016. I’d camped at Hovenweep and planned on trying to visit a site at the Canyons of the Ancients.

It’s nice to leave the best for last.

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To the Back Cave!

August 30, 2016 was a rest day, a hang-out day, for me. I deliberately inserted a number of these into my schedule. What I ended up doing that day was heading to the Anasazi Heritage Center about 30 miles east (as the raven flies) of Hovenweep just outside the town of Dolores.

There is a nice museum there and I arrived just as one of the local experts was starting a tour.

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Making the Cut

The day after visiting Painted Hand Pueblo I decided to visit Cutthroat Castle. You may recall that from the parking lot I headed east (and north) while Cutthroat Castle was in the other direction, north. However, I wanted to do something a bit more challenging and I didn’t want to repeat myself driving to that parking lot.

So I did something else.

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Saturday Comic

This comic appeared last January 11. It’s from Free Range by Bill Whitehead.

Free Range, January 11, 2017

I thought it was a funny new take on the old NSNSNS issue.

 

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Painted Back

On my trip Out West, August 28, 2016 was the day I started exploring the Canyons of the Ancients. As a reminder, this is a very large, fairly new, National Monument managed by the Bureau of Land Management.

This was the day I was going to learn if my bushwhacking skills from Ohio transferred to the desert Southwest.

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Petroglyph Program

One of the really nice things about going to National Parks as opposed to other federal locations like National Forests is that the National Parks have educational programs that they put on pretty regularly. These are almost always worth going to (and well-worth the price of admission).

On the late afternoon of my last post I made sure to attend the “Petroglyph Walk” at Hovenweep.

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Holly and Horseshoe and Hackberry at Hovenweep

Continuing with my trip Out West, on August 27, 2016 I was starting my first full day at the Square Tower Campground at Hovenweep National Monument.

It was time to head out exploring.

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Saturday Comic

Here’s the comic Nancy from July 3, 1967. Back then the strip was drawn by Ernie Bushmiller.

Nancy, July 3, 1967

It looks to me like Sluggo is almost ready to sneak into a store with a NSNSNS sign . . .

 

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And They Hove Into View . . .

On my trip Out West, I left the Grand Canyon on August 26, 2016 and headed for Hovenweep National Monument. What? You’ve never heard of Hovenweep?

Before I planned this trip, neither had I.

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