"The Man Who Traveled in Elephants" is a short story written in 1948 by Robert A. Heinlein.
Spider Robinson selected it as one of his life-time favorite stories, and included it in his anthology Best of All Possible Worlds on that basis.
Alexei Panshin said that the story "...is a mistake, a sloppy, sentimental fantasy that I suspect was written at the very beginning of Heinlein's career and then went without a buyer until 1957".
[2] The story can be viewed as an early manifestation of Heinlein's World as Myth, which featured prominently in his last novels.
It becomes clear that these travels were not seriously intended to sell elephants, but were rather a way to continue the life the two had previously enjoyed.