Continued From Previous 3 McIntosh, SD. Photo => A Satellite View Of US 12 From McIntosh, SD Thru Mobridge, SD, Then US 83, North To Herreid, SD: And Rt 11 to Hague, ND.
This Satellite View Over Central South Dakota. ((Image Dated 23 June 2020)), Shows “Glacial Potholes” As Irregular Black Spots:
…A GEOGRAPHY LESSON RE RAINWATER FILLED GLACIAL POTHOLES => ….Along the ZMM Route, In The Dakotas, Traveler may observe ~SIX Water Filled, Often Swampy Low Lands, Which =>….. Every Black Spot On /\ Above /\ Image …, Even Tiny Ones, Is Likely A Rainwater Filled “Glacial Pothole”, Especially where you see (North going), US 83.Makes Curved Deviations From Straight Line. Right Click Here & Select New Tab, Then => Keep Your Eye On US 83 (North Of US 12), AND ZOOM IN To see close-up of “Glacial Potholes” along => The ~20 miles of US 83 North to ZMM Town of Herreid, SD, and the continuing 15 miles to ZMM Town of Hague ND.
… FROM WIKIPEDIA: AN EXCERPT. …“Shallow wetlands known as potholes. These potholes are the result of uneven deposition of till, from glacier activity in the Wisconsin glaciation, which ended about 10,000 years ago. ..[seen] across five U.S. states (Minnesota, Iowa, North and South Dakota, and Montana) …Few natural surface water drainage systems occur in the region as pothole wetlands are not connected by surface streams. …. => Click Here, To Read More. ….************** ….
New Topic: Concerning What The ZMM Narrator Says About US 83, Which IS A Major Horrible N-S Truck Route. And The Huge Truck-Tractor-Trailer Rigs, the Narrator calls “Semis”: ….HORRIBLE … “ The road south is awful. Choppy, narrow, bumpy concrete with a bad head wind, going into the sun and big semis going the other way. These roller-coaster hills speed them up on the down side and slow them up on the up side and prevent our seeing very far ahead, making passing [the on-coming trucks, going by us] nerve-wracking. The first one gave me a scare because I wasn’t ready for it. Now I hold tight and brace for them. No danger. Just a shock wave that hits you. . ” …….HORRIBLE HERREID, South Dakota => Will Be Continued NEXT PHOTO.)) =>
~7:00 am Wed 14 Aug: Mobridge, SD. (ChangesSinceRobertPirsig1968Trip), …. After A Good Night’s Summer Nap, Henry Gurr Back On US 12 East ((The ZMM Route In Reverse Direction)), and failing to find any remains of The ZMM Route Scene of the => “ A & W Root Beer Stand.” a in Mobridge, MT, Henry then, continues on the US 12, ~10 miles East, and leaves US 12, turning North on US 83, Both in 2002 & 2006 Henry Gurr experienced US 83 to be an excellent pavement road, contrary to the Narrator saying ”Choppy, narrow, bumpy concrete ..” Cont Next.Photo => A Google Street View Of 1St Street & US 83, Herreid, SD. ….AND The ZMM Narrator Continues With More Metaphoric & Actual “So Herreid” :-((
Photo File = GoogSatl US12}McIntoshSD}MissouriRiver}MobridgeSD}US83}HerreidSD}HagueNDPotHoles.jpg … Posted 23 October 2020. Revised 19 Oct & 23 Oct 2020.

Continued fm Previous Photo => “We Are In A Herreid Western Town.” …. “Everything Is More Run-Down And Mechanical-Looking …”

~7:40 am Wed 14 Aug: Henry Gurr Experiences This => Google Street View Of 1St Street & US 83, Herreid, SD.

As Robert Pirsig says in ZMM => ". At Herreid, John disappears for a drink while Sylvia and Chris and I find some shade in a park and try to rest. It isn’t restful. A change has taken place and I don’t know quite what it is. The streets of this town are broad, much broader than they need be, and there is a pallor of dust in the air. Empty lots here and there between the buildings have weeds growing in them. The sheet metal equipment sheds and water tower are like those of previous towns but more spread out. Everything is more run-down and mechanical-looking, and sort of randomly located. Gradually I see what it is. Nobody is concerned anymore about tidily conserving space. The land isn’t valuable anymore. We are in a Western town. ."

….US 83, A Major North- South Truck Route, Passes Through A Town Name Herreid, SD. , Which (As Seen ZMM Passage Above), ZMM Author Pirsig Poetically Applies As “So Very Horrible” Herreid! , because for him (and the ZMM Narrator) this town, the heat, the crummy "run-down mechanical" western town feeling, and even the road pavement itself, compounded with all the big heavy semi trucks on this road were => Altogether => Just Herreid ! (In Other Words Everything Here Is So Very “Horrible”! )
…….AS IS POETICALLY & METAPHORICALLY APPLIED HERE AT HERREID, SD,
… Author Robert Pirsig throughout ZMM, regularly, uses town names “poetically”, to (with poetic metaphor) relate or express some characteristic of the town, Together With Metaphorically, the TOWN's NAME, and in turn use this Metaphoric Content to AMPLIFY the ZMM Travel Narrative, most often relation to His Chautauqua Lecture. It’s fun to see him do these “Metaphoric Bridge Connections”!!
….Many of these “Metaphoric Bridge Connections” (MBC) BETWEEN Pirsig’s Travel Narrative and His Chautauqua, are pointed out & discussed in Henry Gurr’s 2002 ZMM Route Photos, All Four Parts. For An DISCUSSION Of METAPHORIC BRIDGE CONNECTIONS, With EXAMPLES ((Along With “Why Is ZMM So Factual?)) Click Here & AFTER Page Comes Up, Scroll Down To ….Metaphorical …. .

The ABOVE, Whole ZMM Book Scene Is Poetically So “Herreid “!! BUT EVER MORE-SO Because John in Real Life Was A Horrible Alcoholic, AND Narrator, Chris, & Sylvia have to WAIT in the HEAT, not knowing WHEN John will come back!!. :-((
END Narrator’s “So Herreid” For This Part Of SOUTH Dakota.

Cont Next.Photo => A PANORAMA VIEW Of => A North Dakota Corn Field, & Pothole Lake, 4 Miles West of Hague, ND.


Photo File = GoogStVuAug2009 Map1stSt at US83 LookingSW ZmmRouteTown HerriedSD.jpg
… Posted 19 Oct 2020. Revised 23 Oct & 25 Oct & 22 Nov 2020.

Continued fm Previous Photo => A PANORAMA VIEW Of => North Dakota Landscape: A Corn Field & A Glacial Pothole Lake.

~8:03 am Wed 14 Aug: Just After CROSSING the Border, We Are in NORTH Dakota:

As Robert Pirsig says in ZMM =>
The tired feeling wears off completely and the wind and sun feel good now, making it real. It’s happening, just from the warming of the sun, the road and green prairie farmland and buffeting wind coming together. And soon it is nothing but beautiful warmth and wind and speed and sun down the empty road.

….A Panorama View of Corn Field, & Glacial Pothole Lake, By A Major Truck Route Intersection, And In Distance An Off-The-Road Truck Stop Rest Area, 4 Miles West of Hague, ND.
..1) The /\ Above /\ Panorama opens looking North along the road ahead. Contrary to the Narrator’s complaints, you can see the Pavement Of US 83 is quite good! At The Bottom Of The Hill, look close:
…..a) You can just make out the Junction of Rt 11, at which Henry Gurr Turned Right, And Following The ZMM Route (in reverse), went Directly East ~4 Miles To ZMM Route Town of Hague, ND. And
…..b) You can just make out the pavement that leads left =>To the Truck Rest Area & Lake Front (( In grass to right of pavement, The Gray Colored Sign has no words, likely a flipped down “ice on bridge sign.))
..2) And Using “Click&Drag” Scroll Bars, to scroll the panorama right, in View /\ Above /\, you will see in distance,
…..c) Two Clumps of Of Dark Green Trees: These mark two more Rainwater Filled “PotHoles” that Rt 11 Curves Around in process of reaching Hague, ND,
…..d) AND below the Sum Glow, an additional tiny very distant trees, which marks about where the Town of Hague, ND is...4) More scrolling this Panorama, you can see the South US 83 Highway Pavement is also very good, contrary to ZMM Narrator’s complaint, in ZMM Passage (additionally discussed in Next Photo.)
..5) Next you see a Very Healthy Corn Field, and then And to right of the Corn, => The Large Glacial Pothole named “Rice Lake”.
..7) And finally you see again the SAME Opening View, showing US 83 Highway ahead.
..8) And now (REMEMBERING (in /\ Above /\ Panorama) to click photo several ties to get the biggest view, & possibly use Magnifying Glass.), look close BETWEEN pavement US 83 and the Right Edge of the lake, where upon =>
…..e) To the right of the “White Rectangle”, you can just make out 2 Semi’s on the Truck Stop Rest Area Asphalt Pavement.
…..f) Concerning The "White Rectangle => As you may see for yourself =>
Go Back to the SECOND Previous Photo Called => LESSON RE GLACIAL POTHOLE> THEN => Click on the Google Satellite Link, => THEN Zoom In To Max, Where upon you see with Absolutely Stunning Clarity, This “White”, To Be A Series Of 10 Cylindrical White Metal Storage Cylinders!!, most likely for Grain although not the usual shape.

HISTORY NOTE: Back In 2002, When .Henry Came This Way (On His ZMM Route Research), This Area Of The Dakotas Had Suffered A 13 Year Drought, And This So Called Glacial Pothole” Lake Was Just Dry Baked Cracked Mud, And Dead Trees!
…Since that time, the weather has turned to MUCH MORE than normal rain, and as you see /\ above /\, only the dead trees remain to tell the grim story.
SIDE NOTE: You will see a more dramatic example of a “pothole”, in Forthcoming Photo => A Glacial Lake at Glenwood, MN was formed by gravel infill around a Glacial Ice Block. …

Please NOTICE & REMEMBER The High Quality Of The /\ Above /\ Panorama Photo, Because The Next Photo Shows The Same Camera Photos (And Physical Location), As Panorama /\ Above /\, But “Stitched”. By Less Perfect Efforts of Henry Gurr..

Photo File = Panorama_9ByFw98Rez0618-0625 CornField&ViewLake 3mi W Of HagueND.jpg.
… Posted 22 Nov 2020. Revised 19 Oct & 23 Oct & 5 Nov & 22 Nov 2020.

Continued fm Previous Photo => A LESS THAN PERFECT PANORAMA VIEW Of => North Dakota Landscape: A Corn Field & A Pothole Lake.

~8:03 am Wed 14 Aug: Just After CROSSING the Border, We Are in NORTH Dakota:
As Robert Pirsig says in ZMM =>
The tired feeling wears off completely and the wind and sun feel good now, making it real. It’s happening, just from the warming of the sun, the road and green prairie farmland and buffeting wind coming together. And soon it is nothing but beautiful warmth and wind and speed and sun down the empty road.

….NOTE: The /\ Above /\ Panorama Photo Shows The SAME CAMERA PHOTOS (And SAME Physical Location), As Previous Hi Quality Panorama Photo, But “Stitched”. By Less Than Perfect Efforts of Henry Gurr, Using Available APP’s.

..AND the /\ Above /\ Photo Is Kept Here, So You may “See The Difference”.
….Which as you can see in the /\ Above /\, the Photographic Quality is acceptable, but The Less Than Perfect Stitching, using AutoStitch, omitted 2 of the 7 photos supplied, and thus omitted The East Views of Prairie, and “US 83 Road To The South. Consequently the opening view just shows “Corn Field”. Also the /\ Above /\ Panorama Stitch has distracting brightness variation, and if properly “cropped” tor straight top & bottom, too much picture would be lost. These problems are ultimately caused by Henry Gurr’s inadequate Panorama Photographing Technique. The Previous Panorama Photo Stitched & Edit Improved by FlatWorld.com is Far Better.
….************** ….

….A Panorama View of Corn Field & Pothole Lake At A Major Truck Route Intersection, And In Distance => An Off-The-Road Truck Stop Rest Area, 4 Miles West of Hague, ND.
..1) The /\ Above /\ Panorama opens looking at a Very Healthy Corn Field, and then And to right of the Corn, => The Large Glacial Pothole named “Rice Lake”.
..2) And now (REMEMBERING (in /\ Above /\ Panorama) to click photo several ties to get the biggest view, & possibly use Magnifying Glass.), look close BETWEEN pavement US 83 and the Right Edge of the lake, where upon =>
…..e) To the right of the “White Rectangle”, you can just make out 2 Semi’s on the Truck Stop Rest Area Asphalt Pavement.
…..f) Concerning The "White Rectangle => As you may see for yourself =>
Go Back to the THIRD Previous Photo Called => LESSON RE GLACIAL POTHOLE> THEN => Click on the Google Satellite Link, => THEN Zoom In To Max, Where upon you see with Absolutely Stunning Clarity, This “White”, To Be A Series Of 10 Cylindrical White Metal Storage Cylinders!!, most likely for Grain although not the usual shape.
..3) At this scroll => To the right of the Semi's, you are looking at An Example of => “green prairie farmland mentioned in the ZMM Narrator’s Passage Italic Above. .

HISTORY NOTE; Back In 2002, When .Henry Came This Way (On His ZMM Route Research), This Area Of The Dakotas Had Suffered A 13 Year Drought, And This So Called Glacial Pothole” Lake Was Just Dry Baked Cracked Mud, And Dead Trees!
…Since that time, the weather has turned to MUCH MORE than normal rain, and as you see /\ above /\, only the dead trees remain to tell the grim story.
SIDE NOTE: You will see a more dramatic example of a “pothole”, in Forthcoming Photo => A Glacial Lake at Glenwood, MN was formed by gravel infill around a Glacial Ice Block. …

Cont Next.Photo => A PANORAMA VIEW Of => Close-Up Of Same Pothole Lake, AND A Major Truck Stop Rest Area, 4 Miles West of Hague, ND.

Photo File = DSC_0623 -0625+0618 IviewCutOuCrop CornFieldRiver&Lake 4MiEastOfHagueND=pano20
… Posted 19 Oct 2020. Revised 20 Oct & 22 Nov 2020.

ContFmPreviousPhoto => A PANORAMA CLOSER VIEW Of => Pothole Lake, & Lakeside Truck Roadside Rest Area, At A Major Truck Route Intersection

~8:11 am Wed 14 Aug: IN The ZMM Narrator’s => “The Prairie. Tranquil and Detached.", ~ 4 Miles West of Hague, ND.

Besides The ZMM Narrator’s “ Herreid” Descriptions, There Is Lots Of Evidence That US 83 Is Indeed A MAJOR North-South Truck Route: For Example (And Hence Supporting The ZMM Narrator) => The Pavement Ahead Leads To A large Truck Parking Lot & Rest Area, With Two Huge “Semi’s, As With Scroll Will Be Seen The /\ Above /\ Panorama.

….Although This Highway Is Very Good, The Above-Mentioned “Truck Stop”, Gives Witness To US 83 Is Factually A Major North-South Truck Route. Hence Supports (To Repeat What Said Previous Photo), the ZMM Narrator’s Complaints =>
“ The road south is awful. Choppy, narrow, bumpy concrete with a bad head wind, going into the sun and big semis going the other way. These roller-coaster hills speed them up on the down side and slow them up on the up side and prevent our seeing very far ahead, making passing [the on-coming trucks, going by us] nerve-wracking. The first one gave me a scare because I wasn’t ready for it. Now I hold tight and brace for them. No danger. Just a shock wave that hits you. .. At Herreid, John disappears for a drink

END Narrator’s Horrible “Herreid” For This Part Of NORTH Dakota.

..1) The /\ Above /\ Panorama opens looking along US 83 South. The “green prairie farmland & “Corn Field” mentioned in previous panorama is to left and right of US 83 hillslope. .
..2) And Using “Click&Drag” Scroll Bars, to scroll the panorama right, you will see close-up the previously mentioned “Glacial Pothole” called Rice Lake. At this (& continuing) scroll) you are the looking at the dead trees that remain to tell the grim story of the 13 Year Drought.
..3) Continuing scroll, you see the (previously mentioned) pavement that leads right to the Truck Rest Area, & a few more views of the Rice Lake.
.4) More scrolling this /\ Above /\ Panorama, you can see the “White”, ((Previously Mentioned In The Google Satellite Link Photo RE LESSON RE GLACIAL POTHOLE)) is a series of 10 Cylindrical White Metal Storage Cylinders, most likely for Grain, although not the usual shape.
..5) Then Two Huge Truck Tractor-Trailer Rigs, the Narrator calls “Semis”:
..6) With continued scrolling, you can watch the distant horizon for Continuing Examples of the ZMM Narrator’s “flatness and great emptiness” ..
..7) Further continued scrolling you see US 83 North-going, .(And Remembering to click photo several ties to get the biggest view, & possibly use Magnifying Glass), then a Sign by the pavement => “St Mary’s Catholic Church” “Hague North Dakota( SIDE NOTE; In the “Sign” you see the Way High Steeple of St Mary’s Church, This Steeple is seen for miles in all directions from Hague, and appears in some of Henry Gurr’s Photo.))
..8) Then you see the Highway Junction of Rt 11, which Henry Gurr Following The ZMM Route (in reverse), went Directly East ~4 Miles To ZMM Route Town of Hague, ND.
..8) And finally you see more ZMM Narrator’s “green prairie farmland, AND again the SAME Panorama Opening View, showing US 83 Highway South.

Please NOTICE & REMEMBER The High Quality Of The /\ Above /\ Panorama Photo, Because The NEXT PHOTO Shows SAME CAMERA PHOTOS (And SAME Physical Location), As Panorama /\ Above /\, BUT “Stitched”. By Less Perfect Efforts of Henry Gurr.

Photo File = Panorama_8ByFw98Rez0526-0532 Lake+DeadTrees&TruckStop3mi W Of HagueND.jpg.
… Posted 22 Nov 2020. Revised 19 Oct & 29 Oct & 5 Nov & 22 Nov 2020.

ContFmPreviousPhoto => A LESS THAN PERFECT CLOSER PANORAMA VIEW Of => Pothole Lake, & Lakeside Truck Roadside Rest Area, At A Major Truck Route Intersection

~8:11 am Wed 14 Aug: IN The ZMM Narrator’s => “The Prairie. Tranquil and Detached.", ~ 4 Miles West of Hague, ND.

….NOTE: The /\ Above /\ Panorama Photo Shows The SAME CAMERA PHOTOS (And SAME Physical Location), As Previous Hi Quality Panorama Photo, But “Stitched”. By Less Than Perfect Efforts of Henry Gurr, Using Available APP’s.

..AND the /\ Above /\ Photo Is Kept Here, So You may “See The Difference”.
….Which as you can see in the /\ Above /\, the Photographic Quality is acceptable, but The Less Than Perfect Stitching Of Henry Gurr, using AutoStitch & Irfanview, has distracting brightness variation, and at one place a “step-down” stitch. Also 1 of the 7 Photos Supplied is missing. These [problems were ultimately caused by Henry Gurr’s inadequate Panorama Photographing Technique. The Previous Panorama Photo Stitched & Edit Improved by FlatWorld.com is Far Better.
….************** ….

….A Panorama View of “Pothole” Rice Lake, Just By A Major Off-The-Road, Truck Stop Rest Area, 4 Miles West of Hague, ND.
..1) The /\ Above /\ Panorama opens looking Southeast at the Highway Junction of US 83 with Rt 11, which Henry Gurr Following The ZMM Route (in reverse), went Directly East ~4 Miles To ZMM Route Town of Hague, ND.
..2) And Using “Click&Drag” Scroll Bars, to scroll the panorama right, you will see along US 83 South. Where the “green prairie farmland & “Corn Field” mentioned in previous panorama is to left and right of US 83 hillslope. .
..2cont) Next you see close-up the previously mentioned “Glacial Pothole” called Rice Lake. At this (& continuing) scroll) you are the looking at the dead trees that remain to tell the grim story of the 13 Year Drought.
..3) Continuing scroll, you see the (previously mentioned) pavement that leads right to the Truck Rest Area, & a few more views of the Rice Lake.
.4) More scrolling this /\ Above /\ Panorama, you can see the “White”, ((Previously Mentioned In The Previous Photo Re => Google Satellite Link Photo RE LESSON RE GLACIAL POTHOLE)) is a series of 10 Cylindrical White Metal Storage Cylinders, most likely for Grain, although not the usual shape.
..5) Then Two Huge Truck Tractor-Trailer Rigs, the Narrator calls “Semis”:
..6) With continued scrolling, you can watch the distant horizon for Continuing Examples of the ZMM Narrator’s “flatness and great emptiness” .
..7) Finally, you see US 83 North-going,
.8) The panorama ends here, because of failure of AutoStitch to include the 7th Photo Supplied.

Cont Next.Photo => A PANORAMA VIEW Of => The Center of ZMM Book Town, Hague, ND.

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… Posted 19 Oct 2020. Revised 23 Oct & 26 Oct & 23 Nov 2020.

ContFmPreviousPhoto => A PANORAMA VIEW Of => The Center of ZMM Book Town.
~9:29 am Wed 14 Aug: Hague, ND.
….Concerning Their 1968 Travel Through Here, The ZMM Narrator Reports => “We stop for gas at Hague and ask if there is any way to get across the Missouri between Bismarck and Mobridge. The attendant doesn’t know of any. … All of us go in a shop for coffee and rolls.” …. The “Hague Café’, is likely where The ZMM Narrator says they had “Coffee & Rolls.

..1) The /\ Above /\ Panorama opens looking East (the road ahead), where “The ZMM Route” (Rt 11), goes straight East through the center of town. In distance on left side of street you see a white building with a Red Brick Front & Tan Awning. This is the Grocery Store, and on opposite side of Rt 11 (Main Street), is The Old Hague Café Building, As The Next Photo Shows. => Both Grocery & Café' are Cooperative Ventures of Local Citizens, and City Council.
..2) On the right of Main Street is => Seen in the tree shade is Henry Gurr’s Prius. Nice relief from hot sun as Henry Gurr pulled into a cooler quiet spot, to check maps, have breakfast, with his own, much needed coffee:
..3) And Using “Click&Drag” Scroll Bars, to scroll the panorama right, you will see the Line OF Trees that Insulate the City Park From the Highway. Behind trees to fight of Prius, as seen in /\ Above /\ Panorama Photo. ..4) Then keep scrolling to see the City Park Gateway between the Trees. The City Park, is behind the trees, on both sides of Sidewalk. Here was Henry’s Morning Repast, at a Picnic Table in this City Park,. ..5) With more scroll, then you see “The ZMM Route” (Rt 11), goes straight West, from the Center Of Town. ..6) Continued Panorama scroll, you see the line of business buildings, North Side of Highway, ..7) And finally you see again the SAME Panorama Opening View, showing the LAST of the row of commercial buildings (where you also see the grain elevator tower), and The Same Small White Building, With Brick Front + Awning, which o/c is The Grocery..:
.Finding NO WiFi that “Worked” With His Laptop, Henry Asked In Grocery Store, “Where to Connect?" ….The otherwise very helpful store manager, had no WiFi advice, but listened closely as Henry read the ZMM Book’s Narrator, telling of his passing through her town, some 51 years ago!
(ChangesSinceRobertPirsig1968Trip) => ….When HSG was here Summer 02, the gas station that the Narrator reported, was no longer evident, but the Hague Café’s Old Red Brick Building, Was Good As Ever! And likewise, when HSG came thru Aug 2019. … As of this writing, it is not clear whether => The Narrator’s a shop for coffee and rolls.” (The Hague Café’s Old Brick Building), has suffered, The Wrecking Ball Of Go Modern? ….Both Miles City, MT, and Laurel, MT, have lived with The Quick & Cheap & Modern, long enough to now Value The Old & Quaint: Thus they work hard to preserve and use their Traditional Quaint Old Buildings, that have “Character”: It is sincerely hoped that the Old Red Brick Café; Building will likewise treasured, honoree, & preserved, long into the future! To see This Hague Café’ Old Red Brick Building, In Henry Gurr’s 2002 photo of this older building. Click here. ….
Here Is An Interesting Article About The “City Owned” Hague Café’, Titled => “Good Food And Old Tradition At Hague Café.” Click Here. By Lauren Donovan ,Oct 21, 2012.
Please NOTICE & REMEMBER The High Quality Of The /\ Above /\ Panorama Photo, Because The Next Photo Shows The Same Camera Photos (And Physical Location), As Panorama /\ Above /\, But “Stitched”. By Less Perfect Efforts of Henry Gurr..
Photo File = Panorama_7ByFw98Rez0633-0639 HagueND.jpg … Posted 23 Nov 2020. Revised 19 Oct & 24 Oct & 5 Nov & 23 2020.

ContFmPreviousPhoto => A LESS THAN PERFECT PANORAMA VIEW Of => The Center of ZMM Book Town.

~9:29 am Wed 14 Aug: Hague, ND. “The ZMM Route” (Rt 11), Goes Straight East Through The Center of Town, As Seen In /\ Above /\ Panorama Photo.

….Concerning their 1968 travel through here, the Narrator reports => “We stop for gas at Hague and ask if there is any way to get across the Missouri between Bismarck and Mobridge. The attendant doesn’t know of any. … All of us go in a shop for coffee and rolls.”
…. The “Hague Café’, is likely where The ZMM Narrator says “go in a shop for Coffee & Rolls. This, is, opposite side of highway from the Grocery Store,, as discussed below, => AND => Will Be Shown In The Following GSV Photo.))

….NOTE: The /\ Above /\ Panorama Photo Shows The SAME CAMERA PHOTOS (And SAME Physical Location), As Previous Hi Quality Panorama Photo, But “Stitched”. By Less Than Perfect Efforts of Henry Gurr, Using Available APP’s.

..AND the /\ Above /\ Photo Is Kept Here, So You may “See The Difference”.
….Which as you can see in the /\ Above /\ Panorama Stitched by AutoStitch, the Photographic Quality is acceptable, but there are distracting brightness variations. And AutoStitch failed to include 1 of the 7 photos supplied, and the automatically created “Opening “View”, is in the a wrong & ugly direction This failures are ultimately caused by Henry Gurr’s inadequate Panorama Photographing Technique. The Previous Panorama Photo Stitched & Edit Improved by FlatWorld.com is Far Better.
….************** ….

Nice Relief From Hot Sun As Henry Gurr Pulled Into A Shady Quiet Spot, to check maps, have breakfast, with his own, much needed coffee: Henry’s Morning Repast, was at a picnic table in City Park. To see Henry’s Prius Shady Spot and the City Park (to Right of Prius) => Please scroll Panorama, beyond the line of business building, & keep scrolling to the gateway between the Trees.. The City Park, was behind trees,
…Finding NO WiFi that “worked” with his Laptop, Henry asked in grocery store : , “Where to Connect? , The otherwise very helpful store manager, had no WiFi advice, but listened closely as Henry read the ZMM Book’s Narrator telling of his passing through her town, some 51 years ago! ((PHOTO NOTE: In Panorama Photo /\ Above /\, => To see the Grocery Store => Please scroll photo right, to the LAST of the row of commercial buildings (where you also see the grain elevator tower), The Small White Building, With Awning, is The Grocery, which by the Way Is A Cooperative Venture of Local Citizens, as is also the Hague Café..:

(ChangesSinceRobertPirsig1968Trip) =>
….When HSG was here Summer 02, the gas station that the Narrator reported, was no longer evident, but the Hague Café’s Old Red Brick Building, Was Good As Ever! And likewise, when HSG came thru Aug 2019.
… As of this writing, it is not clear whether => The Narrator’s a shop for coffee and rolls.” (The Hague Café’s Old Brick Building), has suffered, The Wrecking Ball Of Go Modern?
….Both Miles City, MT, and Laurel, MT, have lived with The Quick & Cheap & Modern, long enough to now Value The Old & Quaint: Thus they work hard to preserve and use their Traditional Quaint Old Buildings, that have “Character”: It is sincerely hoped that the Old Red Brick Café; Building will likewise treasured, honored,& preserved, long into the future! To See This Hague Café’ Old Red Brick Building, In Henry Gurr’s 2002 photo of this older building, please Click Here..
….This same old brick Hague Café’ building, opposite the Grocery Store, is shown in NEXT PHOTO.

Here Is An Interesting Article About The “City Owned” Hague Café’, Titled => Click Here For Article => “Good Food And Old Tradition At Hague Café.” By Lauren Donovan ,Oct 21, 2012. Click Here.
Cont Next.Photo => The Narrator’s “Go in a shop for Coffee & Rolls + People Drive From All Over For The German Specials At This Charming North Dakota Café!

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… Posted 19 Oct 2020. Revised 12 Oct & 19 Oct & 23 Nov 2020.

.ContinuedFromPreviousPhoto => The Narrator’s “go in a shop for Coffee & Rolls ON “The ZMM Route”. The /\ Above /\ Google Street View (Date Sept 2011),

Sat 16 Feb 2019: Rt 11, Article About Hague, ND.

People Drive From All Over For The German Specials At This Charming North Dakota Café!
…A Wonderful Testimonial Article => Posted in WebSite Named > North Dakota, February 16, 2019 by Leah [[Below are EXCERPTS from => A Writer Who Enjoys Writing These Reviews!. ]] Click Here.
….In the absolutely lovely town of Hague, North Dakota, there is a cafe that’s recently received a fresh upgrade but kept to its old roots. People still drive from all over to visit this tiny city with a population of just 71 residents for the food at this cafe. The German special they have are especially popular and you’ll want to head over there to try it for yourself.
….In the itty bitty town of Hague, North Dakota, life is quiet among the small population of fewer than 75 residents.
….The town is known for its gorgeous church that stands tall among the little cluster of other buildings. That's not all people come here to see, however.
….The Hague Cafe recently moved and reopened under new management in late 2018, has gained a reputation for having absolutely terrific food — especially when they're having a German special
…The humble cafe is simple yet inviting both inside and out, and the warm, welcoming atmosphere is exactly what you'd hope for in a small town cafe. The delicious smell of home cooked-type foods will fill your nose when you walk in.
…Although the Hague Cafe has an entire menu of tasty items, from sandwiches to steaks and everything in between, it's their authentic German food that gets people talking.
…If you come on the right day you'll be treated to things like fleischkuekle, sausage, and of course North Dakota's favorite type of soup, knoephla.
….Different specials can include everything from mixed knoephla, sauerkraut, and sausage to a warm bowl of knoephla soup and a side of cheese buttons.
….Of course, the Hague Cafe has a wide variety of breakfast, lunch, and dinner meals that range from classic American diner dishes to seafood and all of it is scrumptious.
….Make sure to stop by when they have their German specials to enjoy all those timeless meals that North Dakotans love because the Hague Cafe knows how to do them right!
….The Hague Cafe is located at 220 Main Ave. W, Hague, ND 58542. To see their hours and check for their current special you can visit their Facebook page.
….North Dakota loves German food — that’s certainly no secret — and many of the state’s most iconic dishes are German. After having a hearty meal at the Hague Cafe, why not indulge in a classic German dessert: kuchen!.

In In the GSV Strip Map /\ Above /\, you can see where Rt 11 .curves around a “Glacial Pothole”. AND you see clearly how Rt 11 goes DIRECTLY EAST & PERFECTLY ARROW STRAIGHT! This continues East for very long stretches, Which is true => All the way East, until Rt 11 reaches the ZMM Book Town of Oakes, ND! And from Oakes, ND Rt 11 CONTINUES EAST MUCH THE SAME, to the North Dakota Eastern Border with Minnesota.

Cont Next.Photo => The Rest Of The Story of “The Hague Café’”.:

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… Posted 19 Oct 2020. Revised 26 Oct & 5 Nov & 7 Nov & 23 2020.

Continued fm Previous Photo => The ZMM Narrator’s “Go in a shop for Coffee & Rolls ON “The ZMM Route”.

LETS TELL THE REST OF THE STORY OF => “THE HAGUE CAFÉ”


Date-Line: October 17, 2020. By Henry Gurr. (ChangesSinceHSGTrip’02)

….The Really Old Hague Café’, which must have been ~forever in a really old Red Brick Building at 220 Main St, is (as of this May 2020 writing), possibly still there, but un-used. A Google Search for … Hague Café’ Hague, ND, yields no info if the building survives, but finds Various Internet Pages, that say the Restaurant Itself ((like the Owl Café’ in Laurel, MT)), continually evolves, with new owners & new staff: And in case of the Hague Café’ => Sometime within last several years, moved into a New Building, shown in View /\ Above /\, and listed as at same street address: But is unclear whether the new building, has left the other old Café’ building still there?
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…FROM TRIPADVISOR.COM, BELOW ARE SOME MORE POSITIVE CUSTOMER RAVES “REVIEWS” !!

….Reviewed November 6 2019 => Hometown Cafe Homemade Food.
This area was settled by Germans from Russia and this little cafe cooks German food. People come from far away to taste their knoephla dumpling soup
…. Worth the Drive. Reviewed April 8, 2016
The Hague Cafe has become a destination place for dining. People come from Bismarck and more distant points, particularly on days when German-Russian specialties are being served. I want to speak particularly to the subject of meringue. What do they do with it, to make……
…. Great Place! Reviewed July 3, 2015 .
The only thing open in town. It is small and in a very old building. They cook was also the waitress if you got there too early. It was clean and the food was good. Their pies were very good.
…. Must Stop! Reviewed February 13, 2015
If you are looking for a small town experience this is the place to stop. The food is super cheap and good. You often times find locals in here visiting. Try the German dishes!

….Reviewed July 25, 2014 => Cheese Buttons and Pie!
Was in Hague for a Tri-County Tourism Alliance meeting. We met at the AmVets, but lunch was from the Hague Café. Almost 30 orders mostly cheesebuttons, either savory or sweet, with chicken or sausage. The staff was very organized and had everything packaged up to..,,,,
….Try It Reviewed March 2, 2013
Great food: rhubarb pie, lemon pie, strudel. Good service; price is affordable. Check out the great church in Hague. Open Sundays thru Saturdays year round, until 7 pm.
…. Authentic German cuisine. Reviewed February 2013
I visited on a Thursday:[which is] Strudel Day. Unbelievable taste! One chooses 1/2 plate or full plate of strudel with baked chicken or sausage. (1/2 plate is more than enough for lunch) Four of us were dining and each raved about flavor and lightness of strudels, which were just great! ...(( . For More Information & Customer "Reviews". Click Here.))

… You may GSV Drive The Main Street Of Hague, ND, AND THEN Continue Driving To Experience The ZMM Narrator’s => “The Prairie. Tranquil and Detached.".. in this Google Street View (Sept 2011). Click Here.

Cont Next.Photo => A PANORAMA VIEW Of => The ZMM Narrator’s => “The Prairie. Tranquil and Detached."..

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… Posted 16 June 2020. Revised 17 Oct 24 Oct & 26 Oct & 5 Nov & 23 Nov 2020.

ContFmPreviousPhoto => A PANORAMA VIEW Of => The ZMM Narrator’s => “The Prairie. Tranquil and Detached." .+ “deep undulation of the earth begins”.

9:44 am Wed 14 Aug: Rt 11, 15 Minutes (& 8 Miles), East of Hague, ND. Here Henry Gurr Sees What The ZMM Narrator Sees =>
…. “The flatness of the prairie disappears and a deep undulation of the earth begins. Fences are rarer, and the greenness has become paler . . . all signs that we approach the High Plains. ”

Continually Scrolling The /\ Above /\ Panorama, To The Right 360 Degrees Fill Circle, You See The ZMM Narrator’s => “” .. the High Plains. ” ALL The Way Around!!

..1)The /\ Above /\ Panorama opens showing The Road Ahead, Rt 11 East, and look close you can see The ZMM Narrator’s “deep undulation of the earth …. we approach the High Plains..AND you can see the ZMM Narrator’s “flatness and great emptiness” . All Around!!
..,2) And Using “Click&Drag” Scroll Bars, to continue scrolling the /\ Above /\ Panorama right, you will see => The Glow of The Morning Sun, and continuing further to the right, you are looking South over a Soybean Field, which continues till you see The Road Behind, Rt 11 West, back to Hague, ND. AND AGAIN, look close you can see The ZMM Narrator’s “deep undulation of the earth .!!
..3) And Continued scrolling you are looking North over a Ready-To-Harvest Wheat Field, which continues till you see again => The Road Ahead, Rt 11 East.
..4) All along the Rt 11 Right-Of-Way, you see Big Bales Of Hay: These are harvested by local farmers, so that the North Dakota Highway Department gets the grass cut for free, and the Farmers get hay without using their own land!

….As Henry Gurr Travels This Area, He Confirms The Narrator’s Contrast =>
..A) FROM => “Eastern North Dakota’s, Perfectly Flat Table Top, Endless Prairie
..B) CHANGES TO => …Deep Undulating High Planes, In The Endless Prairie:”

… . THE ZMM AUTHOR’S EXACT REALISM =>.

As We See In The /\ Above /\ ZMM Passage => The Narrator Is Consistently Attuned And Factually Accurate To The Landscape. .
….Even in the /\ Above /\ Panorama, you may somewhat discern => The ZMM Narrator’s “deep undulation” , of US 12, as Shown In ROAD VIEWS BOTH to East & to West:

…. Concerning His Exact Realism In ZMM, Mr Pirsig Said In Letters To His Editor At Wm. Morrow Publishers => " My book needs all the help it can get" !. This Exact Quote will be found in appendix to Harper-Collins 25th year anniversary edition of ZMM. AND Mr Pirsig’s way to help the reader to ~”accept the complex difficult Chautauqua Lessons, is to “Make my book's Travel Narrative be (& seem) ABSOLUTELY REAL” !!

…. Weather & Landscape Serve To Telegraph Ones Inner Thinking”, A Literary Research Paper. By Professor Robert Nelson. Click Here & SCROLL DOWN TO .. NELSON to read more on this . =>
…. In The Conclusion To His Essay “Place, Vision, and Identity in Native American Literatures,” Professor Robert Nelson Discusses The Impact Of The Book Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance. => Nelson Writes: =>
….“I was especially intrigued by Pirsig's use of climate and geography as controlling metaphors for the intellectual topography ., by how conveniently changes in weather and landscape serve to telegraph or accompany changes in the drift and direction of the nameless narrator's own thinking. The topological analogy between landscape and vision .. in the texture of this novel … I thought, brought into question some of our century ’s-…-and our culture's--most cherished assumptions … about the primacy and autonomy of human consciousness. In Pirsig's text, the structure and motion of narrative consciousness seemed (and still seems) to me to depend as much on the physical landscape through which it moves, as on the currents of the intellectually mainstream ideas it retraces."
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…. PLEASE SEE NEW CONTENT RE AT BOTTOM NEXT PANORAMA PHOTO =>.

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Cont Next.Photo => A LESS THAN PERFECT PANORAMA VIEW Of => The ZMM Narrator’s => “The Prairie. Tranquil and Detached.".

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… Posted 24 Nov 2020. Revised 24 Oct & 26 Oct 29 Oct & 5 Nov & 24 2020.

ContFmPreviousPhoto => A LESS THAN PERFECT PANORAMA VIEW Of => The ZMM Narrator’s => “The Prairie. Tranquil and Detached.".+ “deep undulation of the earth begins”. .

9:44 am Wed 14: Rt 11, 15 Minutes (& 8 Miles), East of Hague, ND.
….The ZMM Narrator Sees =>
“The flatness of the prairie disappears and a deep undulation of the earth begins. Fences are rarer, and the greenness has become paler . . . all signs that we approach the High Plains. ”

….NOTE: The /\ Above /\ Panorama Photo Shows The SAME CAMERA PHOTOS (And SAME Physical Location), As Previous Hi Quality Panorama Photo, But “Stitched”. By Less Than Perfect Efforts of Henry Gurr, Using Available APP’s.

..AND the /\ Above /\ Photo Is Kept Here, So You may “See The Difference”.
….Which as you can see in the /\ Above /\, the Photographic Quality is marginally acceptable, but The Less Than Perfect Stitching Of Henry Gurr, using AutoStitch & Irfanview, has distracting brightness variation, and at one place a “step-down” stitch. Also the /\ Above /\ Panorama Stitch if properly “cropped” tor straight top & bottom, too much picture would be lost.
…..These latter problems were ultimately caused by Henry Gurr’s inadequate Panorama Photographing Technique. The Previous Panorama Photo Stitched & Edit Improved by FlatWorld.com is Far Better.
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Continually Scrolling The /\ Above /\ Panorama, To The Right 360 Degrees Fill Circle, You See The ZMM Narrator’s => “” .. the High Plains. ” ALL The Way Around!!

…
..1)The /\ Above /\ Panorama opens showing The Road Ahead, Rt 11 East, and look close you can see The ZMM Narrator’s “deep undulation of the earth . With “Endless Prairie” All Around!!
..,2) And Using “Click&Drag” Scroll Bars, to continue scrolling the /\ Above /\ Panorama right, you will see => The Glow of The Morning Sun, and continuing further to the right, you are looking South over a Soybean Field, which continues till you see The Road Behind, Rt 11 West, back to Hague, ND. AND AGAIN, look close you can see The ZMM Narrator’s “deep undulation of the earth . With “Endless Prairie” All Around!!
..3) And Continued scrolling you are looking North over a Ready-To-Harvest Wheat Field, which continues till you see again The Road The Road Ahead, Rt 11 East.
..4) All along the Rt 11 Right-Of-Way, you see Big Bales Of Hay: These are harvested by local farmers, so that the North Dakota Highway Department gets the grass cut for free, and the Farmers get hay without using their own land!
….************** ….

….As Henry Gurr Travels This Area, He Confirms The Narrator’s Contrast =>
..A) FROM => “Eastern North Dakota’s, Perfectly Flat Table Top, Endless Prairie
..B) … CHANGES TO => …Deep Undulating High Planes, In The Endless Prairie:”

….HOWEVER these “deep undulations” , are shown FAR better, in Henry Gurr’s 2002 ZMM Route Research Photos, of These North Dakota “High Plains” here.

….To see these photos, click here & when Gallery comes up => Study “Undulations in the FIRST, SEVENTH, & EIGHTH, While scanning the successive photos, ON WAY TO “EIGHTH”, you should ALSO note hills and various ZMM Narrator’s => Factual; Aspects of the Landscape Terrain. Click Here.

…GSV 360 Degree Panoramas (With Zoom In Magnify, See Better The Rutted Dirt Side Road, Also You can “GSV Drive” Further East To View More ZMM Narrator’s “Deep Undulations of The Earth” Click Here.

Cont Next.Photo => The Probable Site Of Abandoned Prairie Homestead & Windmill.

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… Posted 24 Oct 2020. Revised 24 Oct & 26 Oct & 29 Oct & 24 Nov 2020.

Continued fm Previous Photo => On R1 11, 12 Miles West of ZMM Book Town Of Ellendale ND, We See The ZMM Narrator’s “green prairie farmland, WITH The Probable Site Of Abandoned Prairie Homestead & Windmill.

EXPLANATION => There Is Only One Place in ZMM, Where Robert Pirsig Uses Word “Windmill” => " A second flash—WHAM and everything brilliant . . . and then in the brilliance of the next flash that farmhouse . . . that windmill . . . oh, my God, he’s been here! . . . throttle off . . . this is his road . . . a fence and trees . . . and the speed drops to seventy, then sixty, then fifty-five and I hold it there.."
The Above ZMM Passage Describes A Scene => At A ZMM “Empty Road" Location, Which Likely Would Be Some 60 Miles East of /\ Above /\ Shown GSV At Forbes, ND. BUT unfortunately, that stretch of Highway (for all 3 of his ZMM Research Trips), Henry Gurr could not find have any "Windmill + Farmhouse". So Henry took photo of every Windmill he saw, as discussed below.
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~10:10 am Wed 14 Aug, Henry Gurr's Travel through Here: 96th Street NW (same as Rt 11), Forbes, ND.
….This /\ Above /\ Google Street View (Date 2013), looking Southwest, shows very well, the general scenery that Henry Gurr experienced, when he drove ZMM Route East, passing through here, and really a continuation of the previous Panorama’s Photo’s => “The Endless Prairie-Land of South Eastern, North Dakota”. ,
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…. The /\ Above /\ GSV Shows The Probable Site Of Abandoned Prairie Homestead & Windmill, Previously Photographed During Henry Gurr's 2002 ZMM Route Research. This site is ~62 miles East of ZMM Book Town Of Hague ND, and ~12 miles West of ZMM Book Town of Ellendale, ND.

(ChangesSinceHSGTrip’02.)
…. When Henry Gurr Was At This Same Location Back In 2002, He Was Motivated To Take 8 Photos To Form A Panorama View Of =>An Abandoned Prairie Homestead & Windmill But As of The /\ Above /\ GSV, These Are No Longer Here.
….As Henry traveled The Route of Book ZMM (albeit in reverse direction), his goal was to find any major CHANGES, that had happened SINCE his original Summer 2002 ZMM Research Trip:
…Thus It Was That => As Henry traveled Rt 11, East from Hague, ND, he remembered to start looking for The Physical Photo Scene of his PERVIOUS … 2002 Panorama Photo Of => … The Abandoned Prairie Homestead & Windmill, Which You May See By => Click Here.

…. ALSO Click Here To See => Henry Gurr’2002 FULL PANORAMA Of This Location Of => “An Abandoned Prairie Homestead With Windmill”. .
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… EXPLANATION => WHY MAKE SO MANY PANORAMAS THAT => You See In This & Other ZMMQ Gallery Albums? =>

….Henry Gurr’s Continuing Motivation (And Photo Location Choice), Comes Directly From This Passage From ZMM > Concerning “The Endless Prairie-Land of South Eastern, North Dakota” …Especially Please Note Last Narrator’s => The LAST 2 SENTENCES =>
"Later, when we stop, Sylvia has tears in her eyes from the wind, and she stretches out her arms and says, "It’s so beautiful. It’s so empty." .... John gets his camera out. .. After a while he says, "This is the hardest stuff in the world to photograph. You need a three-hundred-and-sixty degree lens, or something. You see it, and then you look down in the ground glass and it’s just nothing. As soon as you put a border on it, it’s gone." .. I say,."
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…. But this Google Street View Is better, => Since It Offers a 360 deg Full Circle Panorama. AND offers you the ability to magnify, and explore better, Sylvia’s ”It’s so beautiful. It’s so empty. , all around, PLUS . You Can Even See The ”deep undulations”!!. Click Here.
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Cont Next.Photo => A PANORAMA VIEW Of => Former Site Of => ZMM Narrator’s Breakfast Restaurant In, The Nodak Hotel, Ellendale, ND.

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… Posted 24 Oct 2020. Revised 12 Oct & 24 Oct & 29 Oct & 5 Nov & 24 Nov 2020.

ContFmPreviousPhoto => A PANORAMA VIEW Of => => Site of Former ZMM Narrator’s Breakfast Restaurant.

10:25 am Wed 14 Aug: The Site Of The Former Nodak Hotel, Ellendale, ND.

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… On The Morning Of Their 2nd Day Of 1968 Travel, ZMM Narrator, Chris, John & Sylvia Sutherland Had Breakfast, In A Restaurant, Ground Floor Of The Nodak Hotel. This Is How The ZMM Narrator Tells The Story =>
“There it is! Ellendale!
….A water tower, groves of trees and buildings among them in the morning sunlight. I’ve just given in to the shivering which has been almost continuous the whole trip. The watch says seven-fifteen.”
….“A few minutes later we park by some old brick buildings. I turn to John and Sylvia who have pulled up behind us. ‘That was cold!’ I say.
They just stare at me fish-eyed. [Once we are in the Nodak Hotel Restaurant.]
….They order breakfast without looking up. ”
NOTE: Nodak is an abbreviation of words North Dakota, and this was on their huge outdoor Hotel Sign
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{ChangesSinceHSGTrip’02.)
….Continuing On Rt 11, Henry Gurr Arrives in Center of Ellendale ND, Business District & Major Crossroad Intersection.
….Henry went directly to the Ellendale former site of ZMM Book some old brick buildings. = The Nodak Hotel, and took 8 ZMM Route Photos, for ~400 degree More Than Full Circle Panorama … which is seen /\ Above /\.
..1) At first you are looking West, along Ellendale’s Main St, As you scroll, you see just flat bare brown dirt, because (time marches on), the whole entire Nodak Hotel was recently ripped down with a big “Track-Hoe” ((Which is a larger than normal Tractor Mounted “Back-Hoe”, but mounted on steel “Tracks”, like a Caterpillar Tractor.)) Soon this site will have Commercial Bank construct here it.
..2) As you continue to scroll, you are looking North along Major N-S US 281.
..3) With continued scrolling you are looking East along Ellendale’s Main St, and will see get a good idea of what Ellendale’s Business District looks like.
..4) More scrolling and you are looking South along Major N-S US 281. The /\ ABOVE /\.Panorama shows the streets were being torn up for resurfacing, and thus look pretty rough.
..5) And finally you see again the SAME Opening View, looking West, along Ellendale’s Main St.

Please NOTICE & REMEMBER The High Quality Of The /\ Above /\ Panorama Photo, Because The Next Photo Shows The Same Camera Photos (And Physical Location), As Panorama /\ Above /\, But “Stitched” By Flatworld.com, Before They Understood & Realized What Henry Gurr Wanted.

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… Posted 24 Nov 2020. Revised 24 Oct & 26 Oct & 27 Oct & 31 Oct & 7 Nov & 24 Nov 2020.

ContFmPreviousPhoto => A LESS THAN PERFECT PANORAMA VIEW Of => => ZMM Narrator’s Breakfast Restaurant. Former Site Location.

10:25 am Wed 14 Aug: The Site Of The Former Nodak Hotel, Ellendale, ND.
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… On The Morning Of Their 2nd Day Of 1968 Travel, ZMM Narrator, Chris, John & Sylvia Sutherland Had Breakfast, In A Restaurant, Ground Floor Of The Nodak Hotel. This Is How The ZMM Narrator Tells The Story =>
“There it is! Ellendale!
….A water tower, groves of trees and buildings among them in the morning sunlight. I’ve just given in to the shivering which has been almost continuous the whole trip. The watch says seven-fifteen.”
….“A few minutes later we park by some old brick buildings. I turn to John and Sylvia who have pulled up behind us. ‘That was cold!’ I say.
They just stare at me fish-eyed. [Once we are in the Nodak Hotel Restaurant.]
….They order breakfast without looking up.”
NOTE: Nodak is an abbreviation of words North Dakota, and this was on their huge outdoor Hotel Sign .

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….NOTE: The /\ Above /\ Panorama Photo Shows The SAME CAMERA PHOTOS (And SAME Physical Location), As Previous Hi Quality Panorama Photo, But “Stitched” By Flatworld.com, Before They Understood What Henry Gurr Wanted.

..AND the /\ Above /\ Photo Is Kept Here, So You may “See The Difference”.
….Which as you can see in the /\ Above /\, the Photographic Quality is remarkably good, but The Less Than Perfect Stitching Of FlatWorld.com, using Adobe Photoshop, stitched ONLY ~7 of the 8 supplied photos. And as you see /\ ABOVE /\, FlatWorld’s first Stitchings did not adjust the Panorama Opening to be Henry Gur’s First Photo Supplied, as desired. Also Photoshop in its normal Stitching Mode, always ends its Stitched Panoramas at exactly 360 degrees, and thus did NOT include the 8th Photo Henry Gurr Supplied. This in turn meant that the Resulting Panorama did NOT go ~40 degrees beyond 360 degrees as desirable. The Previous Panorama Photo Stitched & Edit Improved by FlatWorld.com is Far Better in all these respects, because after a LOT of phone instructions, they finally understood & realized what Henry Gurr was requesting.
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{ChangesSinceHSGTrip’02.)
….Continuing On Rt 11, Henry Gurr Arrives in Center of Ellendale ND, Business District & Major Crossroad Intersection,
….Henry went directly to the Ellendale former site of ZMM Book some old brick buildings. = The Nodak Hotel, and took 8 ZMM Route Photos, for a ~400 degree More Than Full Circle Panorama … which is partly seen /\ Above /\.
..1) At first you are looking Northwest, seeing just flat bare brown dirt, because (time marches on), the whole entire Nodak Hotel was recently ripped down with a big “Track-Hoe” ((Which is a larger than normal Tractor Mounted “Back-Hoe”, but mounted on steel “Tracks”, like a Caterpillar Tractor.)) Soon this site will have Commercial Bank construct here it.
..2) As you continue to scroll, you are looking North along Major N-S US 281.
..3) With continued scrolling you are looking East along Ellendale’s Main St, and will see get a good idea of what Ellendale’s Business District looks like.
..4) More scrolling and you are looking South along Major N-S US 281. The /\ ABOVE /\.Panorama shows the streets were being torn up for resurfacing, and thus look pretty rough.
..5) As you continue to scroll, you are looking West along Ellendale’s Main St,
..6) And finally you see Yellow Curb, and just a small bit of “flat bare brown dirt”, marking the beginning edge of, the site of, the Former Nodak Hotel Site.

Cont Next.Photo => The Coleman Museum, Business District, Ellendale, ND.

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… Posted 27 Oct 2020. Revised 24 Oct & 27 Oct & 31 Oct & 5 Nov & 24 Nov 2020.

Continued fm Previous Photo => The Coleman Museum, Business District,

~10:48 am Wed 14 Aug: Ellendale, ND:
….Henry Gurr Goes Looking For A Place That Had WiFi For His Laptop, To Check Email, Etc. => This Leads to Pure Serendipity!! => …Henry Gurr walked One block West, and spotted The Coleman Museum, shown in photo /\ Above /\.: Just inside Museum, A Curator, Professor Ken Smith, helped with WiFi Pass-Word, and asked about Henry’s travel.
…Laptop & Internet cooperated with Slide Show, of Henry’s 2002 ZMM Research Photographs (link below), that ended with /\ Above /\ ZMM Passage, along with other “Facts & Photos” about Ellendale N D, You can see this same “Show” here => 2002 ZMM Gallery Photos.. ((Click Here & After comes up, Click photo for larger view. Click at upper right (Click Icon >>), to advance to for next 5 photos of ZMM Scenes in Ellendale..))

…Philosophy Professor Ken Smith, among his many amazing talents (and a first rate intellectual), offered to write a newspaper article about Henry’s Travel and ZMM Research.

…Henry’s REPLY To Professor Smith’s Article Sent =>
It's GREAT To Read Your Article!! Click Here. You do Good coverage of ZMM,& Pirsig, and what mu ZMM Route Research is up To !! … AND VERY DELIGHTED to see nice photo of Your HUGE Nodak Hotel Sigh, with VERY small me behind. I never quit being amazed how BIG that sign is!!! Especially when it looked so SMALL, back when was attached high on its hotel brick wall !! … Congratulations to all those workers, who got that Sign moved into your Museum!! WOW !!
…This Reminds Henry Gurr Of Need To Get Historical Photos Of The Insides Of That Old Nodak Hotel ... Most especially the ZMM "polished floor of the entrance lobby” that ZMM Narrator mentions, Re John Sutherland in his long-ohns, & with socks on feet, sliding on the smooth polished floor, and saying "Chicken Man" and “The Police have an understanding”, etc.
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….[[ You May Continue To See More Road Scenes Of Previous Photo Topics Re Using Google This Street View (GSV =>
….]]This Google Street View “Drive” into Ellendale ND, Is good, since it => In addition to 360 deg Full Circle Panorama Viewing, it offers ability to magnify, various scenes in Ellendale, ND’s West Main Street, including 1) GSV “drive” ~4 block to RR Street, and 2) View /\ Above /\, = Coleman Museum, and then 3) GSV ‘drive” => East one more block, to see (a July 2012 View) of The Venerable 3 Story NoDak Hotel => Which Was The So Memorable Site of ZMM Book Freezing Morning Breakfast !! In Ellendale, ND. Click Here.
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Cont Next.Photo =>Professor Ken Smith, and Giant Electrical Power Wind Milll Constriction Site, ~10 Miles West of Ellendale, ND.


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… Posted 27 Oct 2020. Revised 27 Oct & 31 Oct & 5 Nov & 24 2020.

ContFmPreviousPhoto => Professor Ken Smith, At Electrical Power Giant Windmill Constriction Site. .

12: 53 am Wed 14 Aug: ~10 Miles West of Ellendale, ND.
…Professor Ken Smith had been assigned to write a newspaper article, to cover the North Dakota Governor’s Speech At One Of The New Windmill Constriction Sites.. He invited Henry Gurr to come see.
….This is one of the first Windmill Site we found. Professor Smith stopped here, because he wanted a photo of Construction In Progress.
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Wind Generated Electrical Power in North Dakota, From Wikipedia.
….North Dakota is a leading U.S. state in wind power generation. Data from 2017 indicates that the state generates 26.8% of its electricity from wind, enough to power over one million homes.
….In the end of 2017, 2996 megawatts (MW) of generation capacity had been installed for wind power in North Dakota.[1] Additional capacity had been limited by transmission line constraints until the completion of a transmission line from Fargo to central Minnesota in 2015.[2] Additional wind farms have been planned for the state once again,[3] which led to a capacity of 3628 MW by 2019.
….Very favorable wind conditions in the state enable wind farms to achieve capacity factors in excess of 40 percent. The Thunder Spirit wind farm, completed in 2015, is expected to have a capacity factor greater than 45 percent.[
….From Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_North_Dakota
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Cont Next.Photo => Driving West, Looking For Governor, At Electrical Power Generation Windmill Construction Sites, ~10 Miles West of Ellendale, ND.

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Posted 27 Oct 2020. Revised 28 Oct & 30 Oct & 24 Nov 2020.

Continued fm Previous Photo => Driving West, Looking For Governor, At Electrical Power Generation Windmill Construction Sites.

11:58 am Wed 14 Aug:, ~10 Miles West of Ellendale, ND.

…In this view from inside Prof Smith’s SUV =>
….Look close: There are 5 Wind Mills in this shot, and judging from the ~43 seen in Henry Gurr’s various other Panorama Shots => There must be over 80 total in this high planes area, which in turn is chosen, because of its higher than average wind power.

Cont Next.Photo: => A PANORAMA VIEW Of => Professor Ken Smith, and Giant Electrical Power Wind Mills, ~10 Miles West of Ellendale, ND.


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… Posted 30 Oct 2020. Revised 28 Oct & 30 Oct & 24 Nov 2020.