ContFmPreviousPhoto => A PANORAMA VIEW Of => Minnesota Rt 55: ZMM Roadside Rest.


8:02 pm Thrs15 Aug: At A Point Nearest To Lake Koronis, Half Way Between Paynesville, MN & Eden Valley, MN.


….The /\ Above /\ View Is ZMM Route (Rt 55), some 85 miles WNW of Minneapolis, MN.

Concerning Their Minnesota Road Just Traveled, AND This Roadside Rest Area, Here Is What The ZMM Narrator Says Mid Chapter 1. =>
… ... Up ahead the other riders, John Sutherland and his wife, Sylvia, have pulled into a roadside picnic area. It’s time to stretch. As I pull my machine beside them Sylvia is taking her helmet off and shaking her hair loose, while John puts his BMW up on the stand. Nothing is said. We have been on so many trips together we know from a glance how one another feels. Right now we are just quiet and looking around.
The picnic benches are abandoned at this hour of the morning. We have the whole place to ourselves. John goes across the grass to a cast-iron pump and starts pumping water to drink. Chris wanders down through some trees beyond a grassy knoll to a small stream. I am just staring around.
After a while Sylvia sits down on the wooden picnic bench and straightens out her legs, lifting one at a time slowly without looking up. Long silences mean gloom for her, and I comment on it. She looks up and then looks down again.
"It was all those people in the cars coming the other way," she says. "The first one looked so sad. And then the next one looked exactly the same way, and then the next one and the next one, they were all the same."
"They were just commuting to work."
She perceives well but there was nothing unnatural about it. "Well, you know, work," I repeat. "Monday morning. Half asleep. Who goes to work Monday morning with a grin?"
"It’s just that they looked so lost," she says. "Like they were all dead. Like a funeral procession." Then she puts both feet down and leaves them there. “
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..1) The /\ Above /\ Panorama opens looking Southeast Along Rt 55, where you see at right part of the lawn of the Roadside Rest Area.
..2) And Using “Click&Drag” Scroll Bars, to scroll the panorama right, you see typical Minnesota Hardwood Forest. And looking between the trees, you see several places of water, which in an example of => The ZMM Narrator’s . ..Chris wanders down through some trees beyond a grassy knoll to a small stream. “
..3) Continued scroll you see the wide lawn, the where once-upon-a-time there was walk the grass to a cast-iron pump “. Then you see the Picnic Pavilion, with Henry Gurr’s Laptop on the Right Table. His Camera Memory SD was full, and Henry was hoping enough Battery to Transfer the SD Camera Photos, into Laptop Photo Copies, plus BAK Copy.
..4) Continued scroll you see the Parking Lot, Porta-Potty, and Rt 55 continues Northwest,
..5) And continually scrolling you see the homes on the North side of Rt 55, and finally to End Of Panorama, to see again the SAME Opening View, looking Southeast Along Rt 55.
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….ChangesSinceRobertPirsig1968Trip =>
…. As may be seen in Henry Gurr’s ZMM Research Photos => The Narrators 1968 walk .the grass to a cast-iron pump “.was in 2002 on the Grass Side of the Picnic Pavilion. Click Here. Also what likely was a gravel parking lot for Narrator, Chris, & Sutherlands, is seen as Asphalt Paved. Click Here.
Also seen in Henry Gurr’s ZMM Research Photos => “Time had passed, and the old sturdy concrete block pit toilet buildings have been boarded up & replaced with a flimsy plastic port-a-potty.” Click Here.
….ChangesSinceHSGTrip’02 =>
As you can see in Panorama /\ Above /\ Time has passed; and GONE are the once-upon-a-time =>
..A) The walk the grass to a cast-iron pump “ And
..B) The old sturdy concrete block pit toilet buildings, which back in 2002 were boarded up & replaced with a flimsy plastic port-a-potty.

Photo File = DSC_0001.jpgByFw98RezDSC_0001-0007ZmmRaRt55BtwPaynesvilleMN EdenValley MN.
… Posted 6 Dec 2020. Revised 6 Dec 2020.