Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Sacagwea and the rest of the Corps of Discovery spent a wet winter at Fort Clatsop (near present day Astoria) 213 years ago. We had a wonderful tour of the museum and replica fort. Each student got to try his or her hand at starting a fire with flint and steel and writing with a quill pen and authentic oak gall ink. Everyone agreed that the bedrooms in the fort were much too small for the number of people, but putting up a fort in three weeks with no power tools is impressive nonetheless.
After the tour we spent a lovely fall afternoon playing on the beach and we were grateful to return home by car on a paved road. No canoes necessary.
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