Now that Nathan was successful, he started looking for a nicer place to live. He joked that Japan would be a nice place, since at 5’4” he wouldn’t have to look up at people. Ultimately, he chose Santa Barbara for its beauty and pleasant yearly temperature. So nine months after getting married, he and June moved to Santa Barbara, California, where he continued his private pen inventing career. His final invention was the “Pentastic” pen, which was a flat plastic ballpoint that writes in two colors. Since man first scribbled with quills, the shape of writing instruments has always been round; however, the Pentastic is so flat it can be used as a book mark.
