Amateur Traveler Podcast, I'm your host Chris Christensen. Today in the show

we're going to go to Ashland Oregon for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. I'm

going to jump right into the show because it's going to be a longer show than usual.

I only have one announcement that I want to do before the show, which is I have sold my first sponsorship

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That being said, let's get right into the show.

I just got back last weekend from Ashland, Oregon, which is a small pretty town in the southern Oregon close to the California border.

I drove there for seven hours with 29 high school students, two other chaperones and a teacher

to go to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

By no means did we drive the furthest, we ran into school groups both from the Bay Area like we were as well as from

Portland from Seattle and also from Canada. So why are people driving this far

to go see plays in a small town in Oregon. That is largely the

dedication of one English teacher from Southern Oregon Normal School and rather than me tell the story I'm going to actually at

this point switch over to most of this episode is going to be a sound seeing

tour and so the voices that will explain the action

the Ashland's Oregon Shakespeare Festival will be members of the company

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