Now We REALLY Are In Wine Country! A View of the Old Road South Out of Asti. “Exquisite!“
“[And so we ride on and on, down through Ukiah, and Hopland, and Cloverdale, down into the wine country.] The freeway miles seem so easy now. The engine which has carried us halfway across a continent drones on and on in its continuing oblivion to everything but its own internal forces. We pass through Asti and Santa Rosa, and Petaluma and Novato, …. “
Half mi South of Asti, CA. The Old Road that originally connected the series of towns going South from Ukiah to San Francisco, remains much as it was well before July 1968 when Chris and the Narrator through here. This is because all the fast traffic follows the "New" Rt101, a four lane divided restricted access highway, which is just West of the original Russian River Valley Road. This more modern high-speed, high-traffic road to San Francisco, by-passes all the towns. Low Quality. This photo shows the older road South out of Asti, CA. The above passage “through” not “by” (and earlier pages advising what quality roads to followed) would lead us to extrapolate and believe that the Narrator came along this very strip of pavement, straight through Asti, and continued South. In later passages, the Narrator says they were on a freeway. Either way, you should follow the old road, as a true Pirsig Pilgrim. Consult local maps or TopoZone, to see how to find, and travel, those sections of old road starting in Ukiah, CA. They will most assuredly be there!!
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Upload Date	:	Wed 18 Mar 2009 12:57:34 PM EDT
Capture Date	:	Mon 08 Jul 2002 12:25:44 PM EDT
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