Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 29, 2022

How about on the way back? Can you make a detour to the Grand Canyon on way back home from the grocery store?

Hopefully Calvin never becomes a pilot in real life.

Calvin airlines is going to get a bad review!

But Mommmm

That’s better than

“Are we there yet”

“Are we there yet”

“Are we there yet”

“Are we there yet”

……………………

Calvin needs to invent a teleporter to go along with his time machine.

Don’t be such pill Mom. You can always go to the store tomorrow.

What’s that burro doing on the wings?

While you’re there, you can play chicken with those pesky tour helicopters.

Calvin would like New Zealand

https://youtu.be/7mxmFCw-Dig

Looks like a DC-9, or its successor, the MD-80. I had many flights with those in my youth.

Vivid imagination: a child’s best weapon against boredom.

I love the top right panel!! That howling passenger is hilarious!!

Calvin should watch the musical MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS, starring Judy Garland.

Might change his mind about that city,

Calvin, " Tinks ", like I do !

We had a pilot do that manuever over the West Rim, as he said “let’s see this up close and personal”. Of course, he was in a helicopter.

In 1956, two commercial airliners decided to make unauthorized tours of the Grand Canyon and crashed in midair.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_Grand_Canyon_mid-air_collision

My first time ever in an airplane was when I was 13 and we visited the Grand Canyon. My Dad and I took a small plane tour that actually went down into the Canyon. I kept thinking “WOW this is amazing” alternating with “I’m in a flying Volkswagen Beetle”.

When I lived in Las Vegas, one of my friends was a pilot for flying Grand Canyon tours. He said all tourists lied about their weight and there were a few times he barely made it off the ground.

But there’s a special on cactus salad.

Do not ever give that kid a driver’s license.

is this the same Calvin, who was having a hard time writing a short story?

Arizona is not on the way to the grocery store! I just love this line, although I cannot particularly say why.

ah, the tedium of real life

It would be if you had a map like Bandit and Snowman had.

Watterson, what a brilliant cartoonist. I just love the screaming passenger! Now excuse me, I have to clean up the coffee that squirted out my nose.

“If passengers will look out the right side of the cabin, you will be able to see the right wall of the Grand Canyon. Passengers on the left side should not feel left out; you are able to see the left wall of the Grand Canyon. Please do not leave your seat or look down.”

Calvin should have hitched a ride with Thelma and Louise.

This would be funnier if these types of things didn’t happen in real life.

“We never get to go anywhere I want !”

Years ago a commercial airline pilot decided to give his passengers a treat out of Denver by flying them up one of the scenic canyons west of Denver. Too late he found that the plane couldn’t climb fast enough and the canyon was too narrow to turn around.

Depends on which rim https://www.utah.com/destinations/national-parks/grand-canyon-national-park/things-to-do/north-rim/

I think Calvin will make adventure in the grocery store.

The Canyon is no a no fly zone. Too many idiots and their aircraft went down. You know how hard it is to get a clean up crew down there?

It’s always funny when Calvin imagines himself as an airliner pilot!

Professional Test Pilot in the making….

Waterson’s comics such as this were as much artwork as they were humor. Bravo!

In 1956 the wreckage of two Airliners ended up at the bottom of the Grand Canyon for just that reason.

Watterson was a comic genius.

If you go to St. Louis you can fly through the Arch.

Note that I didn’t say you may fly through it.

They have grocery stores in Arizona.

This strip meshes well with the new Top Gun movie.

You don’t want Calvin driving and pretending that your car is a plane when you get to the Grand Canyon!

Knowing Calvin’s wild imagination, he’s fly into a mountain—in Louisiana.

The Brewers sure loved being in St. Louis today

Or read this article – might change his mind about that tour…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_Grand_Canyon_mid-air_collision

There is a memorial at the Watchtower overlook to the passengers who were killed when two airliners collided over the Canyon in the 1950’s. Those unidentified are buried at the Grand Canyon Cemetery.