Don’t think too badly of Wendy about being impressed by a mountain pass. Not counting plane flights, she’s never been farther east than Lake Washington.
Dielle is referring to an unknown episode of her cross country trip to Homestead. While she’s most likely exaggerating, don’t expect to get anymore details out of her.

Gage, sweetie, Dielle’s helping you out. Her saying she gave you a buffer to make sure you’re not late isn’t implying anything.
Anything Paul and the others are saying, however…

It looks as if the “Pranksters” were very busy.
I was a little conflicted by writing this scene. While this city that the Band is visiting is no Homestead, it’s no Mayberry either. I wasn’t sure if they would consider some pranksters messing with the roadsigns a “crime wave”. However, Bert can be quite efficient when he needs to be. Let’s all be very glad that it’s all kept under control by his…

Dielle looked at her phone and sighed in relief. She still couldn’t believe it. After all of the precautions she had taken, they had barely made it to the venue on time.
Even getting a half-hour head start wasn’t enough. The traffic was backed up to a snail’s pace and none of the road signs had anything in common with what they said on the map! At least nobody could stop them for speeding. (Even…