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Happy Post-Labor Tuesday edition of Nightcaps to you, a real bittersweet day on the ol' "The Far Side" desk calendar, if ever there was one.

It's the symbolic end of summer, but with that comes football (and more importantly, hockey), and what a weekend it was.

But even though Summer '26 is pretty much over, I've saved one summertime ritual for September: a road trip.

My wife and I (plus another passenger I will get into in a moment) will be driving from Orlando, Florida, to...