By: Patricia

Ooh, I want to visit the Craters of the Moon so badly. Along with pretty much every national park or national monument. If I won a large sum of money, I’d probably plan a giant national park road trip around the entire continent. Also I feel like the museum of clean would make my life complete. And the Lisa Frank headquarters looks so bizarrely cool and eerily beautiful.

My cross-country road trip story:
Remember when northern Colorado had the flooding disaster back in September of 2013? That’s when I had the genius idea to pack up all my worldly possessions, cram them into tiny car, and make the spontaneous move from Boulder to Seattle. At 10:00 pm. They were issuing warnings all over the radio as I left. I think I should get a trophy for most miles covered in a single rainstorm. And that’s saying a lot, considering I grew up in Washington. Needless to say, I didn’t see much other than rainy darkness until Salt Lake city.

Once in eastern Washington, I stumbled past the Zillah teapot gas station, which was kind of cool. Zillah is a weird little town. There’s also a Church of God there. (Get it? – Church of God, Zillah. Though I guess the name isn’t as bad as Boring, Oregon.)

Anyway, if anybody is ever road-tripping Seattle, I’d recommend seeing the Fremont Troll. Fremont in general, actually. And also in 2015 there is apparently going to be a cat cafe (!) (http://www.seattlemeowtropolitan.com )…But I digress.