A & W Rootbeer Restaurant. I believe this was Cardwell MT about 1/2 mi west of Black City Park and intersection of Rt 55 with gas stations. Although author Pirsig states that they enjoyed “hamburgers and malteds at the A & W Stand in Mobridge SD, this is the only operating A & W that I encountered on the entire ZMM Route. (Nw GPS Way Point Recorded.) Photo = 109-0954_IMG.JPG)

Interior of the A & W Rootbeer Restaurant Cardwell MT. (As stated in previous photo, I believe this was the correct town.). My craving a good cool A & W Rootbeer stayed with me ever since Mobridge SD. As I approached Mobridge that beastly hot afternoon, my research plan, of course, included locating the town's "A & W" where Pirsig and his companions found their "hamburgers and malteds". I was correspondingly primed for a "Rootbeer Cooler"! But I was sorely disappointed. (See ZMMquality.org/Gallery Photos ZMM Part I captions of Mobridge Photographs.) As evidence that my A & W craving never left me, I couldn't pass this restraint without stopping! The cold stormy rainy Montana weather shown in the previous didn't erase my South Dakota hot day thirst for one of those favorite old-time "sodas"!
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Lowel ID. Curves and more curves in the mountains of “back-country ... way up yonder” Idaho. The sign back at Lolo Pass on Montana-Idaho Border said “No Auto Services for 75 Miles”. (Photo = 110-1053_IMG.JPG)

Mountain Stream “White Water Rafting”, Lochsa River Gorge, some 15 Mi East of Lowell OR. The ZMM Route follows this rapid flowing Mountain Stream (really a river), for easily 40 miles. As you drive the highway, the excited shouts, shrieks, (and groans) of the raft crews can easily be heard. To get this shot, I drove on ahead of this happy crowd, to a clearing near the road. I position myself, camera in hand, and mentally ran through good pix check list. For these “once ever” shots have newly recharged batteries, plenty of spare digital memory capacity (or plenty of remaining pictures on film roll.) AND Check all camera settings, including & pixels picture size and Megabytes/picture settings. Also practice your intended maneuvers. (Photo = 110-1074_IMG.JPG)

As My Car Climbed the Steep Road to the Grangerville Plateau, I Discovered This Small Deer In the Deep Grass Among the Flowers. I
I had to creep my car along Rt 13 as I stalked this doe in distant trees upper left.
Halfway between Kooskia ID and Grangeville ID.,.
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(Photo = 110-1092c ...... ZMM Page = 261 ...... WayPt = 175w `|w|' ft)

Awesome Barren Rocky Canyon That This River Carved Into Ancient Lava Flows!
Large fish in this river but otherwise not many large animals in this barren canyon. Once you are in this canyon, there is no way out except to follow the river!
Roadside Rest Area, Salmon River Canyon. ID.
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(Photo = 111-1146r ...... ZMM Page = 260 ...... WayPt = 287 `|w|' ~1580ft)

Fertile Green Valley, just North of New Meadows ID.
After miles of low country heat and dry scrub & sage land, this wide lush green cool valley is a welcomed relief! Truly a new meadow! A roadside sign marking my Southward crossing of the 45th parallel (45 degrees North Latitude), occasioned my photo-stop to click off an eight shot panorama, one photo of which shows this near sunset scene with the town in the distance to the south. (Photo = 111-1155_IMG.JPG)

Sunset Overlooking the Next Town. Like the ZMM Narrator, I Feel the Loneliness and Letdown At the End of the Day.
No matter where I am, every evening on my ZMM Research Trip I stop to participate in the peaceful scenes at sunset, and as the Narrator emphasizes work on "peace of mind". At each sunset, I take the time to photograph the view. Someday I will place these photos in a special album, or should I add them into the real time sequence of my album "Flowers and Red Wing Blackbirds Along the ZMM Route"?
Several miles Northeast of Cambridge, ID.
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(Photo = 111-1157c ...... ZMM Page = 261 ...... WayPt = 292`|w|' ~3400ft)

My Only Photo of the ZMM Narrator's West Idaho Campground. This Was Taken Too Late To Show the Beef Cattle Herd That Frequents This Public Campground.

Brownlee Campground, ID. Twenty to thirty beef cows roam this well watered woods in this otherwise semi-desert dry baked area of Idaho. The cows woke me up with their mooing and bawing on all sides of my tent! I discovered that my two camera batteries both were night-chilled-dead and no chance for recharging them likely 50 miles in any direction. After several hours of warming by direct sun light, one battery, and not the other, regained just enough for just this ONE shot! But by now, of course, but the cows were gone.
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(Photo = 111-1161c ...... ZMM Page = 261 ...... WayPt = 296`|w|' 4382ft)