Looking at a River in Africa

This may be my favorite NoaC comic so far, partly because of all the self-indulgent references I included here.  Then again, NoaC itself it pretty self-indulgent, so…

I’m not sure how exactly or when this family joke of ‘looking at a river in Africa’ started (although I suspect it’s been even longer than 15 years…yikes) but I definitely never expected to ACTUALLY look at the Nile River with my family. And then we took a Nile cruise aboard the Blue Shadow from Aswan to Luxor, and there you have it.

I was amused to draw my family younger. Some of the other small references in this comic include Jass (a Swiss card game we play, pronounced YAHSS), of which I bought a French Swiss deck last summer that doesn’t actually mark face cards but all jacks carry axes. You can also see the scorecards with the reverse S (not a Z) because the Swiss do things backwards (the order of turns is also reversed in Jass). I also have gotten very good at falling asleep on planes before takeoff. Linda is Mom’s sister, and another running joke in our family is how often Wendy gets called Linda.