After the Top of the Pass, The Highway Follows The Cut Of The Canyon, With a Few More Twists, Steeply Down .

…You Are Looking Into The Distant Yellowstone River Valley, And The ZMM Narrator’s "Promised Land.”

…"The cloud passes from beneath the sun and the forest of pines and small meadows gleams again, sparkling where the sunlight catches small drops from the rain.
... We reach the top of the climb dry again but cool now and stop, overlooking a huge valley and river below. .. "I think we have arrived," John says.
…Sylvia and Chris have walked into the meadow among the flowers under pines through which I can see the far side of the valley, away and below.
…I am a pioneer now, looking onto a promised land. ”

Ten miles East of Miles City, MT.
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… Here we need to remember the Narrator’s => "At Baker, where we stop, the thermometers are reading 108 degrees in the shade. When I take my gloves off, the metal of the gas tank is so hot I can’t touch it. The engine is making ominous knick-knicking sounds from overheating. Very bad. The rear tire has worn badly too, and I feel with my hand that it’s almost as hot as the gas tank. .. "We’re going to have to slow down," I say ”
… And then, after traveling all day, and especially the last 80 miles in the grueling, torture of traveling at lower elevation in bright sun and triple digit heat, there is such a sense of relief while climbing 620 feet in elevation out of the Powder River Canyon.
…Chris, the Sutherlands & the Narrator are elated with the change in landscape. And the prospect of cool rain as voiced by the Narrator and sense of arrival as voiced by John Sutherland. Their sense of accomplishment is underscored by the Pioneer/Promised Land metaphor and literary allusion that ends the passage. Sylvia and Chris celebrate by venturing into the '' “meadows among the flowers under the pines” The mood is euphoric, relieved and resheded.” ''
…Of course, Author Robert Pirsig expects us as readers to expect (Metaphoric Bridge Connection) that things will be vastly better in this "Promised Land.”
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(Photo = DSC_0266 ...... ZMM Page = 079 ...... WayPt = 096`|w|' 3127ft)