A Final Stop on Our Oregon Adventure

We Do Sunday Series: Enjoying Life after Trauma

Knowing how much baggage we carried into our marriage, we understand that we truly did do our best to enjoy life after trauma. Thank you for walking down memory lane with us during this Sunday series.

Our final Oregon stop was in the town of Astoria. The town sits on the edge of the Columbia River where it empties into the Pacific Ocean. While the Columbia Gorge is one of my favorite drives, we had never been this far west on the river and we were eager to explore. The varied rock formations along the drive to Astoria provided one of my favorite trip photos.

Astoria itself was a wealth of maritime history. It is a place we would like to visit again. We drove out on the dock to a restaurant—I admit to being a bit reluctant to drive across the water on a wooden dock but it was worth it!

It was while taking that final picture that I realized this was the bridge we would need to cross the next day!

Before we left, we made one final stop at the Flavel House Museum. We were so glad we did! It provided an overview of the history of the area as well as a tour of a beautiful Victorian home.

“As one of the best-preserved examples of Queen Anne architecture in the Northwest, the Flavel House survives today as a landmark of local and national significance. The house was built in 1884-85 for Captain George Flavel and his family. The Captain, who made his fortune from his occupation as a Columbia River bar pilot and through real estate investments, had the Flavel House built as his retirement home at the age of sixty-two. The Flavel House has been restored to accurately portray the Victorian period’s elegance and the history of the Flavel family.” (Source)

And with the tour complete, we were on our way over the bridge and back to Washington. We had one more day of traversing areas we had never seen before we arrives home. That will be the final Oregon trip post next week.

“"It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument,
and to convey some knowledge of us to the most remote posterity,
is a work of bare utility; not a shrine, not a fortress, not a palace, but a bridge."
—Montgomery Schuyler—

To Be Continued Next Week.