“California! Did I hear you say California?”
“Yes. Why not?”
“I thought you meant Florida or Mississippi or some of those states when you said South, for I always think of California as West and cold, not warm.”
“Oh, no! I don’t like Florida and those Gulf of Mexico States as well as the warm climate of California. They have too many crocodiles and snakes to suit me.”
“But, Billy, think what a hard trip it would be to travel all those thousands of miles.”
“Not at all, my dear! We would travel only when we felt like it. At other times we could find some nice farm on which to live or a small town to stay in and we would enjoy the change of scenery as we traveled along from day to day. I have been on the move so much that I feel it would be positively impossible for me to stay here on this old farm away up in Wisconsin where nothing happens from one month’s end to the other all winter.”
“I know, dear, you have the wanderlust in your blood, and rather than have you stay here and be unhappy, I will go with you.”
“That is said like a darling little wife, and I know you will never regret the trip. It will do you good and liven you up.”
“We will ask Stubby and Button if they don’t want to go with us.”
“No use asking them if they want to go for you know perfectly well that nothing would keep them from going unless you positively forbade them and then I doubt not that they would follow you at a close distance.”