I remember the first time I drove through Walla Walla. It was in the early '70s as my family headed to Sun Valley, Idaho, for a ski vacation. At that time, the only thing remarkable about Walla Walla, to me, was the fact that it was home to a state penitentiary. Our tour guide — my dad — pointed this out to my sisters and me as he steered our station wagon through the sleepy town. It would be decades before I gave Walla Walla another thought.
In the early 2000s, I was work
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