1 Me: {holding passport} Three and a half weeks vacation!
2 Me: Visiting old friends, seeing new sights, eating good food, getting out in the fresh air.
3 Me: And, best of all...
4 Me: No making comics!

Yes indeed! I leave on an overseas trip today. And I am not making any new comics while I'm away.

However, I've made enough in advance that your daily dose of surreality will continue uninterrupted until I return! Am I not awesome in my almighty benevolence? See the news box below for more info.

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2013-03-09 Rerun commentary: My trip was to the west coast of the USA and Canada. Much of it was a driving tour from San Francisco to Seattle. If you're interested in exactly what I did, you can read my diary of the trip here.

(Also, there is no news box for this rerun, but I thought I'd leave the original annotation intact for posterity rather than edit that bit out. Consider that sentence as Han Solo shooting first.)