See comics a week or so before this one for the boat sale series: 2012/06/27
This one is Gus saying Arlo is a hard sell for not buying the boat for $10 after Gene undertook the cost and labor for repairs and Gus offered free electricity, docking, shower access, etc.
Arlo likes to muse about his dreams, sells his family on them, they do the work to make them happen with Arlo just needing to say yes, then he waffles on it, and they have to sell him on his idea again, which once it finally does happen, he will take credit for it being a great idea.
Like Gene said yesterday, Arlo is sedimentary. He enjoys being stuck in the mud.
He took them there every year, and played around with the idea of moving there.
They used to ignore him as being all talk, until the last time when he convinced them he was serious and spent the entire vacation selling the rest of the family on the idea.
He only started wavering once the others bought in and started making it happen.
His dreams surround him. His family, the boat he always wanted is already there and Gene maintains it, now the place he took them to vacation every year becoming home for all of them.
The difference is that the rest of the family kept pushing back, saying it was all Arlo just talking and daydreaming, until he convinced them otherwise.
He only started waffling once they all bought in and said they’d make it happen. Janis with the doctors, etc. Gus with housing. Gene with moving.
Arlo would have as little stress as is possible with such a move.
Weather-wise, Texas is a mess, all seasons.
Lived there for almost a decade. Some truly beautiful days in the spring and fall though.