Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 13, 2019

You should put up a detour sign for the next wagon

Or if you have a REALLY FAST ox.

Hey – you at least found water.

I’m not sure if the ox is insured but at least the wagon is covered.

You can spend all day trying to separate an illusion from a delusion.

Typical GPS today.

Lots of trees. I’d build a raft and charge a toll on the next wagons

Donner Pass 10 miles ahead

And they’ll be treated as liberators.

I can hear The Eagles singing.

The map is right. It’s just that it’s a 1980’s AAA map.

Men don’t like asking for directions and some women don’t like reading maps. A recipe for disaster.

Now, if none of them have actually studied law….

It’s called"Ground Truth" i.e. walk out there and see if your feet get wet.

Excellent. I feel like we all are struggling with the cognitive dissonance dilemma these days.

Tucker Carlson says the bridge out is a myth.

Time to have faith …

Rabid Rudy Giuliani says that a gap is not a gap.

Pick any session of congress. It’s like a replay of an old tv western. You are compelled to watch and know the outcome won’t change.

Is that African or European swallow?

Doesn’t matter. You’re all dying of dysentery next week.

GPS.

We have covered bridges where I live. Wonderful old structures built for horses and wagons. People come from far and wide to see these treasures from our past. Most have a three ton weight limit for cars, about the weight of a large SUV. I once saw a fully loaded, double trailer, logging truck, 65 tons, drive across one covered bridge. Somehow he made it and, when question by police who where notified of his action, said that’s where his GPS told him to go. Guess he couldn’t read the signs “Weight Limit, 3 Tons”, Passenger Cars Only" and “One Vehicle At a Time”. The GPS route? The bridge is on the original route of the North/South highway, the by-pass around the village and bridge was built over 40 years ago. So much for new technology… Then there was the guy, the same summer, who drove his fully loaded concrete truck onto a different covered bridge and only realized it was a bad idea when the top of the truck got wedged into the roof structure and he couldn’t get off, backwards or forwards. It was easy for the police to catch him.

When reality meets false theories….

The gap is fake news.

Thank you, commentators. This could easily have fallen into a political chasm.

Just back up and get a running start.

Where’s Indiana Jones when you need him?

Early GPS was no more trustworthy than todays. The only real difference was the speed at which things went sour.

Crossing the Great Continental Divide.

So do you try to ford the river, pay for the ferry, or caulk the wagon and float it across?

Ford it, that way everyone dies of dysentery.

Ah, yes, the true story of the Donner Party.

Why is it that I can next hear, “Whew! That was a close one. Almost lost a $400 handcart!”? Must be the trail to Rock Ridge.

Here in Wisconsin, the normal way of crossing the Wisconsin River on State Route 113 is via the Merrimac Ferry. But do you think Siri knew that? Noooooo! On our trip to Parfrey’s Glen and Devil’s Lake, she kept trying to re-route us to the US highway 10 miles to the west or the interstate 15 miles to the east.

I don’t remember this in the game.

Google Maps did that to me once.

We’re about to find out why they were called “Prairie Schooners”…

Double down!

Warning to the old timers: I shall repeat an old story for those who missed it.

I have had a couple of people get lost on the way to my place because the GPS dead-ended them into the parking lot of a seedy looking biker bar.

Why couldn’t YOU die of dysentery? You were the unpopular one.

You gotta love Groucho Marx’s “Lying Eyes” quote, it’s the best and used by Trump every time he opens his mouth.

Mostly, the strip it reminds me of trying to get home from watching the full solar eclipse a couple of years ago in Salem, Oregon. Google’s GPS directed me and my wife, plus another 20,000 other cars, to drive all over the back roads of Marion, Clackamas and Multnomah counties, instead of crawling up I-5 to “Save two minutes if you turn left at the next road in 500 feet.”

I can’t believe it… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKh6hbLGj3o

Half a bridge is better than no bridge at all. (Folk saying. Of a long-vanished folk.)

The first Dukes settle in Hazzard County.

His last words were, “You can be stubborn, if you want. See you on the other side.”

Oh, this begs for so many political comments, lolol.

Recalculating….

Gee, I didn’t know Google Maps existed back then!

The bridge was washed out by the last flash-flood.

No wonder I’m so confused by folks who can’t see what’s right in front of them. I always though “lyin’ eyes” were about what they were saying, not what they were showing! I guess the Eagles got it wrong :)

You can’t hide your lyin’ eyes

And your smile is a thin disguise

I thought by now you’d realize

There ain’t no way to hide your lyin’ eyes.

Find a witch and build a bridge out of her. If she weighs the same as a duck she’s made of wood. And therefore a witch!

They should Never have bought a map from a Wiley Bear.

recalculating…

Sounds like Trump.

The Donner Party was actually taking a “shortcut” recommended by a Trail Guide.

Looks like religious apologetics!

“…and that’s the true(?) story of the Bowling Green massacre!”