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Day four started Wednesday night at The Pharmacy PDX, a bar that featured a few times in the Matt Dillon movie, Drugstore Cowboy. We happened to be there for burlesque night – a very fun and gender expansion show.
Thursday Lily and I packed up our bags for the coast. The drive to Seaside was gorgeous between the forest and the mountains. The trees are so much taller than I’m used to, even in Northern Minnesota. We saw snow for the first time in weeks. Apparently, it’s been a while for folks here too to see so much snow. Then we got to the beach. Amazing! The sound could lull anyone into a good mood. There was a promenade, that was too far from the water for us, so we went right to the water.
We learned a little bit about clam digging, which looks like a pretty fun work out. People use what I’d call a clam digging auger to dig up the dirt and hopefully a clam. We chased down sand dollars. I don’t think I’ve ever seen them on the beach like that before. Also Seaside is the end of the Lewis and Clark Trail. So that was pretty interesting.
From Seaside we went north to Astoria, where much of Goonies was filmed. I went to see the Goonies house. The view is amazing and there’s sort of a well-maintained ragtag feel about the area. Astoria is where Clark Gable began his acting career; unfortunately, the theater burned down and the plaque doesn’t photograph well but we saw it. There were so many movie connections in the area. And as Lily noted there were a couple of cinemas and a video store. Lily works at a Cinema in Portland and worked at the Lagoon in Minneapolis. I feel like she could move to Astoria.
My favorite thing so far – the sealions in Astoria. You can’t get very close to them but you can hear them from far away. The last two times I visited Dublin, I didn’t get to see seals so this was a total bonus seeing sealions here!
We had very yummy seafood for dinner and checked out a few of the local breweries. A mellow but fun night. We stayed right in town and it was nice to see there were a few options that were walkable to the city.
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