Last weekend, my roommates and I spent Saturday in one of the neighborhoods of Portland, checking out the annual Mississippi Avenue Street Fair. It was packed with vendors and local artists, with lots of music and lots of interesting clothing styles! The people of Portland have very unique tastes. We had a great time, though, and we ran into Angie, one of the scientists who lives in Portland who is always encouraging us to explore the city some more. She was very proud that we'd made our way into the neighborhoods.
Saturday night, we rented the 1980s cult classic The Goonies and watched it as research for our Sunday trip to the northern Oregon coast. We had planned a trip to Astoria and Cannon Beach, which is where the movie was filmed. There was a big 25th Goonies anniversary celebration at the beginning of June, but we had all just arrived so we didn't make it then. But we made up for it last weekend!
Ship on the water in Astoria.
Astoria is a really neat little old-fashioned fishing town.
We found it!
The Goonies house! I wonder why they chose this particular house for the movie?
This is the Astoria Column. It's at a high point on the perfect overlook, so you can climb up and see the towns and the water below. It's painted with scenes from the history of the region.
At the top of The Column.
View from The Column.
Overlooking Astoria from The Column.
Cannon Beach.
Cannon Beach.
Haystack Rock.
Kaleb and Biz are tired out after a long day!
We think we also saw the school where Kindergarten Cop (Arnold Schwarzenegger) was filmed (also in Astoria), but it's been so long since any of us have seen it, we can't be sure!
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