After dropping Herb and Linda off at their boat, Chris and Milo, Nathan and Val and I took the trolly car the whole length of Astoria, as it follows the Columbia river. The man who "drives" the trolly narrates the history of Astoria as we go, and it was very interesting. The town was settled by many Scandanavian immigrants who came there as fishermen, and they built their houses with very steep roofs to keep off the show, not knowing that it doesn't snow in Astoria. We saw many very interesting houses, many of them old Nordic mansions with steep roofs on the hillsides in the east side of Astoria.