After discussing their reasons for this journey, they pack their bags and umbrellas and start walking in the sand.
As they travel, the ladies stop and present entries from their journals. Mary's first concerns the advice given her by "an avuncular colleague" whose advice she does not accept.
While making their way through the thick jungle, the ladies utilize their umbrellas to "whack the bush."
The trip is not without friction. The formerly solo sojourners occasionally disagree with each other about certain things. For example, Alex thinks trousers are great for women, but the others do not.
The first strange creature they meet with is Alphonse, who seems oddly dressed in grass skirt, German army jacket, leather cap and goggles. The clothing makes more sense when they realize that he is a cannibal, and every time he eats someone, he begins to act and speak like the person he devoured.
Alex, besides trying to convince the others about trousers, is constantly playing with words and rhymes. In one journal entry, she put the words "imagine" and "native" together, and comes up with "imaginative."
While traversing an arctic waste, a snowball flies at them. It is thrown by a baby yeti, a young abominable snowman.
Further along, they come to the top of huge precipice, and decide to use a rope bridge (in this production constructed of ropes and two Ninja Stagehands).
Across the bridge, they meet the Gorge Troll, a young rock'n'roll actor who studies at the Studio. He takes a liking to Alex, but the others discourage her from taking a ride on his "chopper--whatever that is."
Eventually, the ladies realize what is happening--that they are traveling through time. Besides finding futuristic objects (campaign buttons that say "I Like Ike" and eggbeaters), they begin to "osmose" the future, absorbing words and ideas. One night, by firelight, in an "orchard of the future," they write of the future in their journals.
