Mark Twain Spring Fever

The weather has slowly been turning warmer, and I found myself with a bit of Spring fever. I wanted to get out of the house, to take a drive in the country, or a walk in a park. And then, as I often do, I wondered where the phrase, Spring Fever, came from. I found out it's from Mark Twain. Photo courtesy of Library of Congress.

“Don’t you know what that is? It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want–oh, you don’t quite know what it is you DO want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! It seems to you that mainly what you want is to get away; get away from the same old tedious things you’re so used to seeing and so tired of, and set something new. That is the idea; you want to go and be a wanderer; you want to go wandering far away to strange countries where everything is mysterious and wonderful and romantic. And if you can’t do that, you’ll put up with considerable less; you’ll go anywhere you CAN go, just so as to get away, and be thankful of the chance, too.”

So I put together an Mark Twain Spring Fever Etsy treasury in his honor. Today I'll go anywhere I can, and be thankful of the chance to.