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Although everyone in Isabel's family is either working or attending
summer school, the entire family is going to Taos, New Mexico for
two weeks. Hotels everywhere are expensive; consequently, Isabel's
mother has rented a house with four bedrooms. Because there are
more bedrooms than the family needs, Isabel wants to fly on
Southwest Airlines and take her best friend, Jilian, but Isabel's
stepfather has decreed, perhaps because he is a banker and fiscally responsible, the family will drive from their home in Dallas to the
rental in Taos. Of course, Alex, who is always impatient, wants to
drive straight through the night, stopping only for gas and
hamburgers, whereas Isabel's mother wants the family to break up
the fourteen hour journey and spend the night in a motel in Amarillo,
Texas. Isabel, declaring that she has no intention of camping out
under the stars, flatly refuses to go to Taos unless she can take all
her stuffed animals: Cecil B. DeLion; Moo-Moo; Douglas, a jaguar;
and Ontario, a green-eyed wolf. Isabel has already quarreled with he
r brother, Alex, who thinks she is selfish to take up so much space in
the car with her possessions, but her mother takes up for her because
she wants Isabel to be happy on this family vacation, the last she will
take before she goes off to college in the fall. Her mother wonders,
having had an unhappy vacation with a very discontent Isabel in
Galveston the previous year, whether Isabel will be content without
her best friend Jilian; however, Isabel's mother has vowed never to
take Jilian on a trip again; in the past ,she has always gotten
homesick and become frightened of the noise of cicadas, insisting that
cicadas in Dallas are much quieter and less menacing.