There was a first-rate machine shop with an expert mechanic in charge of it, who peered into our engine dubiously:
"If it was only a Ford or a Cadillac," said he, 1 1 1 could fix you up right away ! But a bearing for that car of yours '11 like as not have to be made. Can you get one in New York, do you think?"
An unusual and "special" car may be very smart-looking and be particularly easy to trace if stolen, but in a breakdown a make of popular type would be best a Ford ideal. You could buy a whole new one at the first garage you came to, or maybe get a missing part at the first ten-cent store. We discovered the difficulty, or inconvenience rather, of repairing ours, within twenty four hours of leaving home.
By Motor to Golden Gate
-Emily Post
I have read my share of travel literature recently. I have read Daniel Meyer to Robert Prisig, looking at how travel literature takes shape. I've read travel narratives from men, women, old, young, but mostly American to keep myself focused. One of the travel writers that I did not expect to find was Emily Post's 1915
By Motor to Golden Gate. Post writes about a trip with an aunt and a son trying to cross America by car. They want to go from New York to San Fransisco which is a trip that most people tell them cannot be done. The ads tell a different story. Advertisements are telling Post that anyone can cross the country in a car and she wants to find out.
This may not be the best travel literature but it does have a few moments which are interesting thus far. I did not expect Emily Post to have written a travel book.
