Grand Canyon Diary- Part 3
At some point early in your preparation for going to the Grand Canyon, you find yourself on YouTube.com. Turns out that everything that has happened for years is either on YouTube or is about to be....
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And Just Like That… It’s Winter
Jeff Outdoors says: Yesterday we had the first snow fall of the year. I got the Bronco plow-truck out and none of the electrics worked on the plow. The standard “kick it really hard” method didn’t...
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Grand Canyon Diary- Part 4
“It’s difficult to know what to bung in when beginning a story” P.G. Wodehouse When packing, you naturally come up with some questions, especially when packing for something people keep wanting to call...
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Grand Canyon Diary- part 5
I mentioned before that I might be invited along on this Grand Canyon trip because, it being a desert, there’s no TV there. I’m good for a laugh now and again. I mean, I’m a cartoonist. I write...
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Grand Canyon diary- Part 6
I never made it to the Ocoee with the ancient boat. The Ocoee was a river I was perfectly happy in. Even on a bad day, I knew what to watch out for and where I could fudge the run. I’ve been nearly...
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Grand Canyon Diary- part 7
Packing, as it turned out, meant getting together two sets of stuff at first. The first set going with Fred and the second set going with us. Most of our gear was going with Fred. God love him, the...
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Spep Oop
Okay, here’s the scene: College. Guys. Camping. We’d have brought girlfriends if we’d had them, but it wouldn’t have gone well. You have to take things like clean and useful tents and stuff with...
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Adventure Porn
Some of the people that find their way to Hubris do so by typing some pretty strange stuff into Google. Google analytics is the sort of thing that newspapers WISH they had twenty and more years ago....
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Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.
from Jeff Outdoors- The Department of Transportation cam showed that the mountain pass was smoke free, so that’s where we went. I had been waffling for days between depression and trying to hide from...
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Old Friend, New Summit
My buddy Roger is 50 or 60 or something around there. He and I have climbed a lot of mountains in Washington State over the years. We were talking about his accomplishments recently, when he...
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Of Black Bears and Poodle Breeds
Of Black Bears and Poodle Breeds Jeff Cravens Many years ago, my wife and I bought 20 acres of land in Washington State. We actually bought 18 acres, but paid for 20. In retrospect, the land survey...
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Vacation With Dad, part 1
Vacation With Dad – Part 1 The Great (Hot) Sand Dunes “Hey kids! Let’s go run up a sand dune and then… run back down it… and stuff.” The kids forced out a barely audible, “ok” and I turned the car...
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Pics or it didn’t happen
For all of you who need photo proof of adventures, I apologize for not previously posting these shots of the Sand Dune Adventure (scroll down the page a bit for the story of the adventure. It’s...
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Proud Papa
Proud Papa Jeff Cravens When I was a kid, my parents did not jump off cliffs. Now that I think about it, I’m practically certain that they have never jumped off cliffs, and have no plans to do so....
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BoogieBikers
So this friend of mine, Bob, and I worked at Opryland theme park as caricaturists more years ago than seems possible. And we went to college together. Being best buddies and roommates and seeing all...
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The DrabbleCast
I like podcasts. You can listen and draw at the same time. (Not write, but draw. Different skills. Y’know.) This week, I did the cover art for The DrabbleCast. This is it before they dolled it up...
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Was Your Mother a Mudder?
Brother Jeff interviews himself. Interviewer Jeff: It looks like you just got back from a bike ride. I can see there’s mud on your teeth. Biker Jeff: Yes. I tend to smile a lot when I’m cruising...
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TSOJ’s Interviews
Okay, I’ve been trying to add this button to my, frankly, cluttered website. (Due for an overhaul, here) And I can’t make heads or tails of things. So until I do, here’s a nice big button for you to...
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More work.
Memphis Cartoonist Named to Board of National Cartoonist Society (NCS) Memphis, TN: The National Cartoonist Society (NCS), formed just after WWII by cartoonists returning from USO tours to...
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