Mikey in Travisland: Chapter 6-The Land of Untimely Creatures

Chapter 6-The Land of Untimely Creatures
(pictures: Travis the T-Rex (Travisaurus Rex), Travis the Yeti, Travis the Bigfoot, Travis the Chupacabra, Travis the Troll, Sheldon, Lurch, Calvin and Hobbes)

BUT! Instead of heading east towards the mountain, Mikey headed south into the Land of Untimely Creatures.
When Mikey saw Calvin and Hobbes, he greeted them both. They wondered how he knew their names and Hobbes the Tiger wondered how Mikey could see him.
They ran off leaving Mikey alone who soon came to the apartment building where Sheldon lived in “The Big Bang Theory.” Sheldon is a Travis alter ego in Mikey’s world. In the middle of a discussion of the physics explaining how a star burns hydrogen while playing three-player chess, Mikey ran out of the building screaming, “Please! No more Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock. Midtown doesn’t have medication for this!”
The fleeing run brought him to an old Gothic house. He was thirsty and somewhat hungry. So Mikey knocked on the door. Lurch answered as it was the Addams Family house. Lurch is another Travis alter-ego from Mikey’s world. Lurch gave Mikey some water and Hand gave Mikey some food. But Lurch could not give Mikey directions to leave Travisland. Lurch uttered, “Maybe Travis the King of Portmanteau would know. Go down that road to his kingdom.”
As Mikey continued down the road, he thought he was seeing things. Animals got stranger; plants got thicker; the ground got higher. And there travis the T-Rex speaks. His full name is Travisaurus Rex. “Who are you stranger in a strange face?” Travis the Yeti and Travis the Bigfoot came up to meet the stranger. Travis the Chupacabra ran down the road away from the strange stranger in a strange land. Travis the Abominable Snowman (brother to Travis the Yeti) ignored the stranger and stayed on his mountain. Mikey enquired if they knew the way out of Travisland back to West Virginia, Mountain Mama. Travisaurus Rex said that he couldn’t see any other land than Travisland. Travis the Yeti said he could see no other land than Travisland from his mountain. Travis the Bigfoot said his forest goes nowhere other than Travisland. Travis the Chupacabra kept running.
Mikey said Lurch told him to go to Travis the King of Portmanteau. But Mikey wanted to find Travis the Wise Man of the Mountain. Mikey asked if they knew how to get to his mountain. They all said, “Yes!” But they each gave different directions. Finally, after several minutes of arguing, Travis the Yeti went back to his mountain, Travisaurus Rex chased after Travis the Chupacabra to eat him, and Travis the Bigfoot told him to head east to the Kingdom of Portmanteau or northeast to the Kingdom of Joy and Happiness where the mountain he sought was.
Mikey stupidly headed east towards the Kingdom of Portmanteau. About halfway to the residence of Travis the King of Portmanteau, Mikey came upon the bridge of Travis the Troll. Travis the Troll refused passage over the bridge to Mikey without payment, since, as everyone knows, you must pay a toll on a troll road. Mikey instead went left on the road and eventually crossed into the Kingdom of Portmanteau.

 

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MichaelSchwing

I am a poet, writer, photographer, genealogist, homeless advocate, with interests in languages, history, numismatics, philately, heraldry, books, antiques, fossils, shells, rocks and minerals, Ancient Egypt, Africana, and Native Americana and of course, everything Irish.

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