There used to be a series of TV commercials exhorting you to, under times of stress, to have a Snickers bar and recenter your existence or something.
I found myself, once, climbing out of the Royal Gorge in Colorado, and, after having taken my life in my hands scooting out onto a support beam to swing onto the moving incline train (which had not been moving in the hour or two it took me to climb as far as I had to that point) I thought I’d enjoy the Snickers bar that was jammed in my PFD pocket. After the first bite I resolved to send my story to the company that owned the Snickers name and tell them how I’d taken their commercial’s advice.
And then the incline train stopped.
And it was no longer parked over the support beam.
And I had to swing out over open space in order to let myself down onto the tracks and begin the climb up the rest of the canyon wall… while hoping that the train would not start back up and kill me.
And I decided, “&^%$ Snickers.”
Royal Gorge, is awesome. Been there several times. Tisk on messing with the boxy thing on the cog rail (the incline).
Picked pockets, heh. Yeah. Maybe the raccoon will share the spoils with Lowell later.
Bitten by a radioactive rabid raccoon, Lowell becomes Trashpanda-Man! Lowly middle management shlub by day, at night, he’s the Awesome scuttler, tipping over trashcans everywhere!
Lowell might do that even if not bitten hehe.
Ooh Ooh Ooh! I would subscribe to that spinoff comic! I would even patronize it. 🙂
[Greg, what happens when some of your Patreon subscribers hit a year?]
I’ve been thinking of that. I’m thinking a good anniversary gift might be an original Hubris strip. Packing and shipping will pretty much eat up a month’s worth of Patronage, but you guys are worth it.
Gee, thanks. I’d take one of the ones I was in on the Stanky Creek. I’d pay to get those three. And the pencils. I pay you what a newspaper subscription would cost me, just because I want you to keep ‘toonin’. I also am debating having you do me some more original art, this time for commercial stuff. I’ll take that one offline for and when I’m a bit more affluent. Thanks. Just keep the Hubris streaming our way!
LOL
It’s sweet and at the same time, you aren’t playing fair. I wish I could pay for those. or even have some art done with Hubris and Kara. hehe
Hubris just can’t help being kind to idiots..
OF COURSE one of them did already. that’s what they do. they are little rascals, after all hehe.
But yeah, Hubris is VERY sweet as always.
No need to worry about the tram any more, the fire of 2013 took it out.
Everything else has been replaced, though and it’s still awesome. I’ve hiked the trail at the bottom of the gorge many times, and local bike and hiking clubs have built many miles of trails for feet, hooves and wheels along the rim and through the hills.
Sorry to hear. That was a very ugly fire, I remember reading about it, I guess one building remained standing and it took the rest of the conglomeration out. I moved in late 2005 so haven’t been there in that long…
I hear they added a zip line across the gorge…eek.
They ran a hydromulcher around so there aren’t any ugly scorched tree skeletons in view, in the spring lots of wildflowers in those rolling meadows.
I haven’t been there since I climbed out. Shame about the fire. When I made the climb and came out in that little theme park they had, some manager guy asked what I was doing and after I told him, he sent some pushbroom kid to follow me out of the park- I guess to make sure I didn’t buy ice cream or something without having paid to get in. I went and sat in the parking lot watching some college kids try to commit suicide by luring a deer into their van with Doritos. Then, an hour or so later, my friends came and got me. They’d found my boat, but I lost that Remos Tropicales paddle for good.
I’m sure the paddle is sunbaking a few miles north of Yuma where the river dies. It’s funny, in the middle of town is a lovely high pedestrian bridge made to span the river channel. Which has been dry for years. The Colorado River does NOT reach the ocean, it’s predated so heavily for water on the way. Sad.
OMG. A ride with “Bambi”. Idiots
poor lowel he is not having any good luck. if nothing else he could always hunt down the trash racoon that ate the snickers and have roasted trash racoon