Not only that but a cool front must have come through with it. The temperatures had been in the nineties during the daytime the entire week and hadn't...dropped much below the upper seventies even at night. Now the air coming in the windows felt almost cold. It wasn't quite sundown yet, but the sky was overcast and dark and a strong breeze was blowing from the northwest. Dan looked at a thermometer hanging outside and saw that the temperature had dropped to sixty-eight. Inside it was still warmer. "Anything else?" Yes, we make a firm decision as to just were we're headed and then hook up with others, so that we can 'hide in plain sight.' I know it's late in the season, but there must be some people that aren't taking the train west, or ... we just bite the bullet and load all of the stuff on a boxcar and ride in style to Canada." Canada?" Maeve said. She had been with her, until then. "Why Canada?" Maeve, we will never be safe in this country, and it's just too hot in Mexico for me." I. ”Tim didn’t say anything. He watched a boat slowly move through the view he had of the lake. He hadn’t even had breakfast yet, and people were out on the water. He agreed with everything Benny was saying.“Benny, we’re worth $100,000 each. We could cash that in and live off of it for 8 years without much effort. The median wage is $15,000. If entire families can live on that, then so can we. We own our houses. We’re even paying our loans to ourselves.“If you want, you can take whatever you. I stopped when she stopped. The look she looked was one of speculation."I don't know if I do or not," I lied. "I just picked this up today." You must have played the guitar in another life," she said.And everybody got real quiet. The silence went on for thirty years ... uh huh."Holy Shit!" exclaimed the new secretary.There was a second long drawn out silence. In reality, a long pause is four or five seconds ... honest. Five seconds seems to take forever.This pause creeped. It lasted a good.