Ash & Joe

take the show
on the road

Joe & Ashleigh 9/23/18 Joe & Ashleigh 9/23/18

Two States Ago

“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.

Joe 9/16/18 Joe 9/16/18

“Anywhere that’s wild.”

Arriving in San Francisco in 1868, John Muir asked a carpenter for “the nearest way out of town to the wild part of the State.”

the carpenter responded “where do you wish to go?”

John Muir’s response:

“Anywhere that's wild.”

On the way to Yosemite Valley for the first time, Muir shunned the "orthodox route," for "we had plenty of time," he said, and proposed “drifting leisurely mountain ward by the Santa Clara Valley, Pacheco Pass, and the San Joaquin Valley, and thence to Yosemite by any road that we chanced to find; enjoying the flowers and light; camping out in our blankets wherever overtaken by night and paying very little compliance to roads or times."