Nevah leave home without it, dear boy. What are you? A Yale man?
If you have to ask, you’re obviously not in the 1%.
Clearly, the tour was also a trip – that is, they were going to end up at a different port of call than they started from.
And the Howells carried cash for the same reason anyone carries lots of cash: Thurston was going to buy something from someone that would only take cash.
It’s rarer now, but in the sixties, plenty of people insisted on cash for deals. I remember Jay Leno relating a story in his autobiography where, as a young man working for a car dealership, he delivered an expensive car to someone who paid cash. He took the cash in a brown paper bag with him to his local comedy club, where he would show up to beg/borrow open mike time. He was lucky enough to get two sets, did them, and headed home… only to realize that he had left a brown paper bag with $30,000 in it sitting on top of the piano in the club. He raced back to the club, visions of some comic finding it and blowing it on hookers and coke, and was relieved to see it sitting exactly where he left it. He related, “I was lucky - if someone had taken it, I could have been arrested; I’d just be getting out of jail now. My whole career would never have happened.”
You’sd be surprised what’s out there on Xhamster.
He was also a sucker for coconut cream pie.
Oh, man. Thanks for that image! 
I recall the episode and think Mrs Howell said that during the depression Mr Howell lost most of his money and became just a millionaire
of course I could be remembering wrong
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be…”
Do not forget… Stay out of debt.
Think twice, and take this good advice from me.
Guard that old solvency!
Indeed
