Busy Four Lane Highway Rt97, Just South Of Redmond Oregon: Panorama Opens With a North View, Back Towards Downtown.

"We get into the stream of traffic going south and I can feel the hyped-up danger close in. I see in the mirror some bastard is tailgating me and won’t pass. I move it up to seventy-five and he still hangs in there. Ninety-five and we pull away from him. I don’t like this at all."
After having traveled the unpopulated, remote “back-country” for most of the ZMM Route, and especially since Missoula MT, the intense traffic of this four lane undivided main highway, is indeed a sudden slap in the face!! In taking the 8 photos for this panorama, I had to stand at the edge of this intense, busy, highway. I could feel real fear!! This was especially so, since I was looking into the camera viewfinder, and was blind to what the traffic was doing, “behind my back”!! The fact that I had the sturdy guard rail between me and all that vicious traffic was no comfort. My heart was racing and I had the almost un-bearable panic urge "I've got to get out of here!!" The ZMM Narrator reports similar reaction to this road. Here, no matter how long I waited, I could not get a vehicle-free photo of this road. So I had to settle for fewer than ordinary speeding of cars to get the eight photos for this panorama. I tried to wait for a lull in the traffic to get this and the next two photos. As you can see, even the lulls had traffic!! If this traffic was bad for the ZMM Narrator 42 years ago, it is much, much, worse now! ************************************ (Photo = 113-1325+7 ...... ZMM Page = 293 ...... WayPt = 357x 3442ft)

Upload Date	:	Tue 17 Feb 2009 07:46:29 PM EST
Capture Date	:	Wed 03 Jul 2002 05:59:13 PM EDT
Image Size	:	7517 x 939 (498k)