Walla Walla Wows World

By Matt Reed. I was raised on Dr. Seuss. Sometimes it shows. I’ve enjoyed the name “Walla Walla” since childhood. When I lived in New Jersey, I ran across a convenience store called “Wawa.”  (There’s a town in North Jersey called Mahwah. I don’t know if there’s a Mahwah Wawa, but there should be.) The Princeton Wawa was located near a shuttle train the locals called the Dinky.  Educated adults would say “you catch the Dinky by the Wawa.”  (I am not making this up.)  Putting all of those together, if we imagined Wawa expanding westward, and a shuttle train popping up in the right location, we could have the Walla Walla Wawa Dinky. Read more...