Adventures in the Simple Life

I thought this was supposed to be easy. Tales from the simple life. Prologue: When Eustace Conway was 17, he abandoned his normal life and decided to move to the woods. (6 minutes) Act One: Two brothers set out with a friend to cross America on horseback. They take a tape recorder with them to make a kind of audio journal of their trip. What they find, who they meet, and what they learn in this experiment in 19th-century travel. (35 minutes) Visit the Turtle Island Preserve website; Eustace Conway, one of the riders in this show, is the director of this educational/retreat center in the Appalachian Mountains. Act Two: When Larry leaves his old life behind and joins a monastery, Ethan struggles to understand his best friend's decision. (17 minutes)