The Goal For Today Was to Get to Astoria

We started out with two hours at the airport, four hours on the plane (we saw the movie, The Queen, two thumbs up) Halfway up to Astoria (3 hours by car), we got a call from our 87-year-old 3rd generation Stenger interviewee,
Evelyn, telling us to turn around and go back to Portland due to the snow and ice. Being the native Chicagoans we are, we were unfazed and being documentary producers, we would do anything for the story! Fortunately, it ended up being a very small amount of snow and some ice which is apparently unusual for Astoria, so we could appreciate Evelyn’s concern.

Along our journey, we saw Mt. Ranier from the plane, we saw a sign for white coffee (which had Liz very curious!), and we drove over the Lewis and Clark bridge. That is seven hours traveling time in all.

So far we are impressed with how quaint and friendly a town Astoria is. We can see why Mary Stenger and Joseph Schamberger would have wanted to move here if it were anything like this 100 years ago.

Much more tomorrow....Liz and Laura