Day Trip to Astoria: Too Hot to Stay in Town...
Will and I are researchers at heart--and by training too--so when we were planning to move to the Pacific northwest, we read about the notoriously gloomy and wet weather. People called it "English climate," and we thought we were mostly prepared for that. After all, we spent over a year (Will spent two) living in England. For our initial round of packing, we included several waterproof jackets, scarves, and umbrellas. We were ready! Then we arrived in Portland in the first part of July. And it was been a loooong series of 90+ days of full sun--except the occasional 101- or 104-degree days. Yes, it is true that the string is sometimes snapped with an outlier 72-degree day. (Thank goodness for small miracles!) But otherwise, it's been SUNNY and HOT! Of course, it turns out--when you probe a bit deeper--that Pacific northwest summers have ALWAYS been dry and sunny, if not quite this hot. Unfortunately, it sounds like all the sunl...