Queen of the Road: Mullen completes countywide road trip complete

Mullen leans on her car, Hanako, in front of the Palouse River Valley north of Endicott.

Marty Mullen of Pullman wheels her Subaru wagon down a gravel road into the Palouse River Canyon.

“I just love this road,” she says as she looks over from behind the steering wheel.

Beginning in 2006, Mullen set out with her Subaru, which she has named Hanako (Japanese for flower child) to drive down every road in the county.

As she reaches the bottom of the Grove Road grade, the gravel road turns into a literal goat path.

Wary of pressing too far onto private property, Mullen stops to ask a farmer who is...