It’s 8 o’clock on a sunny April morning in Astoria. Theresa Jones is offering roasted nut samples to 2,300 passengers as they disembark from the cruise ship Norwegian Jade. “We are here when they step ...
On spring mornings along the Columbia River, the quiet in Astoria rarely lasts. By 9 a.m., the first wave arrives. Passengers step off towering cruise ships in clusters, funneled down gangways and ...