“Are you ready to leave California?”Joe asked.“Nooo!!! … – I mean, sure...”Ashleigh answered.“Pick a box. Its contents will help you on your way.”
Two of the options on the Pick a box screen – green leaf and mushroom – clear tributes to two tools oft used by game designers, certainly creative types – and obvious inspirations for the Super Mario Bros. 3 game at this bar in Oregon (“Ashland’s Most Ashlandiest”).
Day three in Ashland, we got to thinking about a seldom considered aspect of this trip: “Where would we live?” The honor and the irony inherent in the asking, is the fact that we have a support system and a strong family structure – most of which happens to be centered in the Northeast.
But c’mon, the whole coast of California, of Oregon, of Washington State. The San Francisco Bay Area, Portland, Seattle; the Olympic Peninsula, the entire Pacific Northwest... just to start. Sebastopol. Ashland. And on and on...
But, our families...
Such a high bar is set for us to even consider moving out West.
But—the West!
