Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 18, 2018

It’s the price Mom has to pay for having a kid instead letting Dad get a Weiner dog.

Doesn’t dad need his glasses while handling something sharp?

Dad can be really crazy sometimes.

Now we know how mom really feels about this whole experience. Like she’s been railroaded into it.

Yep, a Barbarian surely wouldn’t wear glasses. But I wonder, without glasses, what animal would the Barbarian catch … hmm

Roughing it, is Motel 6.

The amount of “character” that has been dumped on Calvin, little wonder he’s such a character.

Dad without specks and wearing a broad smile…he’s either a pod person, or life is just better when it’s a bit blurry. Works for me.

Uh-oh, a man without his glasses is going to try to teach his six-year old (or is it seven?) terror how to put a worm on a hook. Yeah, there’s no way this can go wrong…

One of Dad’s best “Lean-ins” EVER!!

“What is best in life, dad?”“To catch your fish, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of my woman… hold it…”

If I was Mom, I would give Dad a good poke in the eye.

Conan the Barbarian! LMAO XD

Wonder if Mom needs to build character.

As small as Mom’s tent is, I presume that Dad and Calvin each have a tent otherwise Dad would not be alive !

So we have cycled back to the FIRST time they went camping???

I’ve never shaved on a camping trip. Gotta hand it to dad there. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and ready to catch fish.

Sadly, I’m with Mom on this one.

Wouldn’t “Bonehead the Barbarian” be a better name?

She is the one who married him, and she is the one who wanted a child. After Calvin I cannot imagine anyone, even a woman, wanting another. But she is the one complaining about the situation.

Roughing it is working to pay for a microwave, a refrigerator, a nice big tub full of hot water, and a warm dry safe place to sleep. Leaving all that is insanity.

I hope they alternate which spouse chooses the vacation from year to year.

I am with mom not a camp lover after my first time in a tent never did it again.

What? Dad can’t even make a pot of coffee? May he be banned to KOA’s the rest of his life.

My wife thinks “camping” is going to a motel.

That’s one thing I always appreciated about my OWN mother. She was never like that! She was all for camping, fishing, cleaning the fish, etc. (though when we went fishing me and my brother and dad never caught anything, mom always seemed to!)

For a kid who waxes poetic about the outdoors and thrives in it, he sure has issues with camping.

Time to call medavac

360 days a year she can have a fresh muffin.

Calvin better stop smocking whatever he’s smocking. It’s not good for kids like him.

What a whiner his mom is.

Totally agree with Mom!! Only difference is … I wouldn’t be there.

It’s pretty clear that Dad is the only one who enjoys these trips. How does he manage to get the rest of the family to go along with it?

Our idea of “roughing it” is a hotel without WiFi.