They assume he found a nice job - a nice, normal one. But as readers of the previous Skinner stories know, the Skinners will never be ordinary middle-class Americans again.
Calamities abound for the disaster-prone Skinners.
The Great Camping Community proves a dud, and small-town America nearly does the family in. What with exploding appliances, a cat crazed with blood lust, a diet of wild foods, and unremitting togetherness, their idyllic vacation more closely resembles a hell on wheels.