The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

With my car freshly washed, lubed and oiled, and gassed, my playlist relatively perfected, I put the top down and hit the road for my four-hour drive to Seattle last Friday. I was heading to the last of my cousins’ children’s Bar and Bat Mitzvahs. My music and I headed west to Seattle’s relatively cool 95-degree weather.

My family is well known among my friends as one that comes together to attend family events no matter where they are held. And as usual, we all showed up in Seattle. Brother, aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends arrived from Chicago, New York, Boca Raton, Los Angeles,...