(Historical Notes: Look, I get that saying “take the fourth right” and expecting the driver to count for themselves is probably even more of a distraction than expecting the driver to eyeball the distance of a coming turn by feet,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: So, one of the weird things about AWA became the fact that, due to the sheer travel distance involved, it quickly became hard for me to find travel buddies to go with me from North Carolina. Really, though,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: As I write this in the summer of 2021, that poor ol’ van is still TECHNICALLY running, but there’s absolutely no way I’d try to make the drive all the way down to Georgia in it. That would[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: AND SO IT BEGINS. After the attempts to crank up the detail on the hand drawn backgrounds only resulted way more delays and exhaustion and general burnout, I decided on a whim to use some of the pictures[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: This was my second year making the drive down to Atlanta all by my lonesome, although by this point I’d had plenty more chances to get used to it. Hopefully Future Me will remember to put a link[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
…okay, yeah. Joke’s over. April Fools or whatever! Actually, you know what’s funny? I was planning on doing a whole update full of obviously absurd comics like this one… and totally failed at it. I mean, I could just stick[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, Washington DC IS a city specifically designed to confuse invading armies. Of course it’s hard to drive through. But then, it’s not like we wouldn’t have problems driving through any other city.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To be honest, I really don’t mind driving to cons solo. I kind of weirdly enjoy driving long stretches of highway in the middle of nowhere all by my lonesome. (Of course, once I get to an actual city, driving[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Context: a lot of my usual con buddies weren’t going to AWA this year, than one of the ones who did could caravan with me (since AWA is in the opposite direction of most of my cons, finding spots where[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Complaining about trying to drive in Baltimore is nothing new, and it’s not gonna stop until Otakon finally moves. But seriously, I don’t think I’ve EVER seen that many accidents on one single road trip. Death Race 2000 had fewer[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…