The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

There is one thing that gets Cookie-otherwise, the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time)-repeatedly into big trouble.

We call it the Walkabout. The word has fallen into general usage but initially referred to a ritual journey by Aboriginal Australians. During these solo pilgrimages, the individual would head off into the Outback, often as a rite of passage into adulthood. The Walkabout was a break from the modern world and a spiritual practice as well, forging connections to traditional lands and practices.

Is it too much of a stretch to consider Cookie's walkabouts as somehow comparable? Let's consi...