Thread: The Open Road (AshDurn x ChiRise)

And Its a Hwy, more or less in name only. Several parts of it were in such disrepair that a gravel road might have been better. Truckers, avoided this route, and most major truck companies took it off there maps. Even google had wised up and made it a route of last resort. However older Tom Tom units that had not been updated still advised it as the fastest route Jake Had such a unit. It did well enough in Oregeon and Nevada where he had spent the better part of his life. And if its not broke, why fix it. However this return trip was making him reconsider if his device had been broken or not. But than again he would never have met Ash... Ash was a girl born bread and raised in Tennessee, the real tennessee . The part of Tennessee where the rich folks in there mountian town owned such luxuries as a Refrigerator, indoor plumbing, and a few had splurged on getting a washing machine. The single Bar in town did have a TV, a black and white that only picked up two channels, and was usually tuned to the religion one. The town also had a church in it, but nothing so fancy as a post office, or any real semblance of law. For those things, one would need to walk ten miles to the next, less shitty town. It was still a Shitty town, but over half the town there had a TV. It was also where the High School was, and they had a couple of computers that could, at least in theory acess the internet. Ash had grown up amongst a parcel of kids , the rest of witch were destined to hate the government, live off the land, and a mjorioty of witch had left school in the fifth grade, having figured they had learned enough letters, and numbers to suffice them in there daily lives. Ash was not such a girl, she was advanced. She of course was forced into many of the trappings of such a lifestyle. But had a couple of advantages. She had been forced to marry young, but with a little knowledge had been able to stay pregnancy. She also was able to attend highschool, and study enough that she had graduated. An oddity to even have graduated. She also had managed to get a divorce , as she had not provided any childern to her husband. Making her a free woman at the old spinster age of 16. It had gone according to plan. Even now as she was walking down the road to try and get to a big city for the first time in her life. Beyond that she had no plan. She knew she should get one, she should have one, but how could she, almost no one she knew had been any more than 20 miles from home in there entire lives. And Now she was far beyond that. Tall and lanky, her long Red hair was knotted, and matted, she was dirty, with a smell about her .. A smell she was unaware of , never having had a real bath or shower in her life. Yes she went down to the swimming hole in the summer, but it was still spring. And a fw times a month she used the was basen for clothes to give her self a pseudo bath with a sponge. Her clothes were old hand me downs, her backpack had some food in it, but not an extensive amount. Her teeth were supprisingly good, as her Nana had shown her how to use a rag and some ash to keep them clean. Something that her Nana had learned from her Nana who learned it from her husband who had fought in the war of northern aggression. She wore a Green plad shirt, no bra, some panties , white cotton. And a pair of levis that had been bought by an uknown ancestor, and were on the verge of being able to be called thread bare. She noticed some lights coming from behind her, and waved at the car in the moonless night.