I give up! The story continues, after all. Anyway, this is not a phone call! Certainly Teams or Zoom. The history of video conferencing actually goes back about 100 years, with phone hookups popular in the 1990s and later. Heck if they had been using their smartphones and cameras, Rivera’s opening comment would be more accurate. But all this is really beside the point. Let’s get back on track.

Mark and Happy are trying to sell their article to magazine editor and publisher, Bill Ellis, who is so perplexed that a father and son share the same name that he falls back on repeating hackneyed Mark Trail snarks.

But for now, sit back, ladies and gentlemen, as we (possibly) get to watch how Mark tries to sell an uncommissioned report and earn some money.

Is there any doubt whether Ellis will buy Mark and Happy’s report? Will Ellis once again insist that Mark obscure the Chedderson’s names as well as the name of the resort before he will accept and publish it?

Art Dept. We get another view of the Trail cabin, this one looking more like the earliest version of the cabin Rivera drew, complete with prominent front porch and a greenhouse in the back yard.