Most people who can identify north use the same type of strategy you pointed out (ha) in panel 3. They just know their location relative to such landmarks more readily.
I’m all too familiar with this problem. As for me, I just stare into space for a while, trying to locate the big/little dippers and the north star. Which usually doesn’t work, because it’s usually daytime or too cloudy.
“Whoopy tie-aye-aye, oh Ghost of Magellan,
The East Indies Islands were right over there!”
It’s stuck in my head. Now it is stuck in yours. I have no sympathy.
Most people who can identify north use the same type of strategy you pointed out (ha) in panel 3. They just know their location relative to such landmarks more readily.
Or they see the sun every once in a while and remember its position when they got their last sunburn …
At least he does what he’s doing in panel 3.
I’m all too familiar with this problem. As for me, I just stare into space for a while, trying to locate the big/little dippers and the north star. Which usually doesn’t work, because it’s usually daytime or too cloudy.