All Viewed From The ZMM Narrator’s “A High Point ”

There It Is! Just As The ZMM Narrator Stated! From Left To Right =>

…A Housing Tract Home, The Pacific Ocean Obscured By Fog, Caspar Bay, OLD Rt-1 Highway, The Narrator’s Beach, Close Up Of Coastal Shrubs, Curved Road Called “The Sharp Switch Back” (OLD Rt-1 Highway), Curved Road (In Foreground See) Metal Reflector Post, Various Roads, And Then Full Circle, Back To The Housing Tract,
…Note Road At Immediate Right of Beach => This Is A Portion Of Road From Caspar, CA Which Brought The Narrator and Chris To This High Vantage Point.

…“ …. [but now is surrounded by =banks of fog.] For a moment I see a distant break in the fog where some people rest in the sand, but soon the fog rolls in and the people are obscured.”


NOTE1:
…Author Robert Pirsig’s Map X, would be (beyond the weeds) close to the above mentioned Metal Reflector Post. this is as best we know, the location of Mr Pirsig's “Climax Scene”. … In 1968, Coastal Shrubs probably forced Chris and the Narrator to be on rough grass & weeds immediately at the Pavement Edge.
NOTE2
…Concerning the above mentioned “fog”. The climate in most of California is generally dry and sunny all day every day, unless a storm has come in.
…However, due to the Pacific Ocean being relatively cold, fog forms over the ocean water. This is seen in at left edge of /\ Above /\ Panorama, beyond the Housing Tract Home.
…Although not seen in /\ Above /\ Panorama, relatively cold ocean fog can extend for miles inland. This fog & cold was a miserable experience for the ZMM Narrator & Chris most of the time they were near the ocean coast.
…Sometimes this cold ocean fog, extending for miles inland, can “lift up”, so it just looks like a cloud overcast day, with no sun. This is what you see the seen in /\ Above /\ Panorama, as you view the panorama to right of the Ocean fog beyond the Housing Tract Home.
NOTE3
…Concerning the ZMM Narrator’s => “ break in the fog … but soon … obscured.”
…We as readers should (Metaphoric Bridge Connection) be thinking about & looking for meanings of “brief opening” symbolized by the fog.
…And for Chris & the Narrator, hope new possibilities may open up, but aware that right away these possibilities might “close up”.

ZMM Narrator’s “High Point”, Point Cabrillo Dr, about one travel mile Southwest of Caspar, CA. Author Robert Pirsig sent me a map of his ZMM “Climax” location, so I could be here and take these photos of record.

This Area Was Probably Once Mostly Covered With Coastal Shrubs.
… But now is an Ocean Side Housing Tract, as you see in the /\ Above /\ Panorama.

The Eight Photos For This /\ Above /\ Panorama
…Have been extensively used to illustrate the series of photos for the ZMM Narrative, where the Narrator and Chris finally achieve an astounding and unexpected climatic break-thru!! Click Here For A series of photos, which have extensive discussion concerning this area and Author Robert Pirsig’s Ocean Side Chris & Narrator “Climax Scene”
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