boy did you miss some beautiful days at Long Beach..the last 2 days have been just glorious..thank heavens because we just had a conference here with the most incredible seafood etc. provided by the fishers, oysterers, etc. Wow.....the sunset tonight was amazing..have a clam tide this weekend too. But have fun in the big city.   Hope to see you on Monday..remember to take the early bus to Kelso..leaves about 7 or 7:30 a.m. and gets there around 11 or so....and remember Longview is my home town...the bus from kelso to Astoria cuts through one end of it...you will have a great view of the Columbia from the Longview bridge...and Astoria is an amazing town...you can either take the 2:?? bus near th Safeway or the 5?? bus same place...I can meet you in Ilwaco around 5:30 or so...you could visit the Ilwaco museum which is where the bus gets off...My numbers again are work 360-642-2031 and cell, almost never on but I will try to ermember, 360-749-0310. Home 360-665-4999.

If you are going to try to busk, Astoria would be by far the better place, as we are pretty deserted here...I don't know where or if people busk in Astoria but you can always start the trend. It can really really rain there...I would have rain ponchos etc. and wrap up any instruments really carefully .

mg