Articles written by Rick Morton

Rick Morton|Jul 25, 2012

I don’t miss this place. That’s what I kept telling myself as the sun baked everything in sight, the sage brush made my eyes itch, and the tourists in their RVs slowed traffic to 40 mph past the wheat fields of Wilbur and down the hill into Grand Coulee. What made us put up with the snow plows that never cleared the roads fast enough, the potholes that threatened to take out an axle, or the never-ending, too-hot or too-cold, too-rainy, too-wet, miserable weather 11 out of 12 months a year? Then we pull into Tim’s 4 Corners, where a former stude...