No matter how carefully we plan out our travels, usually including a sheaf of maps downloaded from the Internet, we are sure to have both disappointments and serendipitous travel triumphs. One day in Seattle we got completely confused in a web of one-way streets on the way to the Theo Chocolates factory (but that place will be a story for another day). As we climbed a steep hill and started under a bridge, we spotted this troll. During the few minutes we spent there, one family was playing on and around the creature and several couples showed up for photo ops. The troll has a Volkswagon crunched in one fist and glares at passersby with a shiny metallic eye. It turns out that it is just one of several funky installations in this neighborhood and actually has a street named for it. I imagine that if we had set out to find this minor landmark, we would never have located it…but what might we have come across instead?