As we left Glacier, we took a wrong turn and nearly ran out of gas trying to get to the next town. When we found a gas station it was out of gas, but the guy there directed us to another one. A bit of good fortune, because in going to that gas station we stumbled upon a really great coffee house with wi-fi. They used only fair trade coffee and local ingredients on their menu. Shelby checked her email and I went to the bathroom. We I walked back over to our table I stopped in shock.
“Shelby, look behind you.”
On the wall above Shelby’s head was a pen drawing of a wolf. Just to the right of that, on my side of the table was the same featuring a lynx. (See previous chapter “Juju” for spooky coincidence.)
“Weeeeeeeiiiird!”
Our power animals, the ones we had randomly drawn from Tressa’s deck of cards, were right there hovering above us in this coffee shop three days later and hundreds of miles away. (Here I am posing beneath the wolf.)
We did washed clothes at a local laundromat, took showers at a truck stop and drove to Walla Walla, Washington.
“So nice they named it twice”
I wanted to go to Walla Walla, Washington, because of the way they used to say it in Looney Tunes. It was always the place that Daffy Duck’s vacuum cleaner salesman was from. It was everything I expected it to be. Which was not spectacular, but a small college/farm town. They had a quaint business district like most small towns and we found the only bar serving food after 10 and ate dinner there. We got a motel room and fell asleep watching cable.
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