Reading chapters 7, 8, 9, and 10 of By Motor to the Golden Gate by Emily Post. Power outage edition! In which Mrs. Price-Post compares all things to the Statler Hotel in Cleveland and finds much of it wanting. However, Chicago loves itself, and that is valid! We also learn about Proto-Puffs and various things that either are or are not in fact Swedish. And finally, we encounter some of these dire roads that we've been teased with since the Prologue. Wait, was it called a Prologue? Who even remembers. CW: bridges, intentional weight loss