Here is Long Beach, (Wa)about 20 miles across the river from Astoria. Actually I just spent the money I had set aside on a new Lands End Jacket...I am sure I could carpool from Portland, and I could get back and forth to Astoria either Monday and Friday, but getting from Astoria to Portland and back is not all that easy...there is one bus a day and I think it is at the wrong time...I checked it out...something still could turn up..but it is unlikely. mg