Only the Essentials: My Journey from West Virginia to Oregon

Only the Essentials: My Journey from West Virginia to Oregon is a blog by Ren Allen, sharing how she came to be in Astoria, opening Pier 11 Studio with painter Elise Wagner. Dispatching a houseful of things dealing with memories associated with them, and keeping only what I could fit in and on my ren Hyundai wagon was an adventure more commonly undertaken by 20-somethings, but I was about to turn 50, and I wanted to give myself the freedom and feel the possibilities of making a new life in another part of the country. Read on and watch a curated video that I think helps explain some things.