It has been 5 years since government officials reported that your father's spacecraft went down during a launch: killing him and leaving you an orphan. This of course lead to the brief Invasion of the Krikks, since your father was meant to investigate their then recent movement in our solar system. Several months before he died, he gave you a strange present. A folded piece of paper and a large key that weighs over a pound and appears to be gold-plated. On the box that these objects came in were the words, "In case anything happens to me." Now you are a man-child, ready to take on the world and claim what your father left you. Society has reached a level comparable to its pre-invasion condition, you are done mourning, you are ready.
It's 8:00 AM on a Saturday morning. You are in Seattle, Washington. You have a car, $3,000 saved up, and of course the Key and the Map. The Map shows a location pinpointed somewhere in the American Southwest.
What do you do?