Meadow, Cattails, & Pavement Cracks. The Condition of Route 55 Northwest of Minneapolis Confirm Beat-Up Concrete Below.

The ZMM Narrator Says =>
… "I’m happy to be riding back into this country. It is a kind of nowhere, famous for nothing at all and has an appeal because of just that. Tensions disappear along old roads like this. We bump along the beat-up concrete between the cattails and stretches of meadow and then more cattails and marsh grass."
…. "This highway is an old concrete two-laner that hasn’t had much traffic since a four-laner went in parallel to it several years ago."

Photos for ~6Mi West of Buffalo, MN. needed.

…In the /\above/\ photo => The cracks showing in the asphalt road, confirm the broken “beat-up concrete” below.
……Here, please be aware => Ann Lake and a huge National Wildlife Refuge hide (lurk?) behind this railroad embankment, and thus completely escape the traveler's attention.
….More obvious to the traveler is the very busy railroad track that runs along most of Rt55, Northwest from Minneapolis. Beyond RR tracks are seen ancient leaning telegraph poles. These speak of times past and a different traffic that came this way.

Can you help with photos to illustrate this passage from ZMM?
…If you can provide marsh life and landscape photos of this area, please send email to HenryG__USCA.edu.
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Heading Northwest on Route 55 => You Will Find That => Rt-55 Is Practically The ONLY =>
....Old "beat-up concrete" highways (ZMM Book Page 003)" which "is an old concrete two-laner" (page 003) "that hasn’t had much traffic since a four-laner went in parallel to it several years ago" (page 003) where it is easy to "miss our turn" (page 021), despite a sign “as big as a barn” (page 021), AND soon thereafter “crosses this freeway” (ZMM Book Page 021).
….ALSO very contrary to US-10 going North from Minneapolis, …. Rt 55 has several “roadside rest areas, for which => “The picnic benches are abandoned at this hour of the morning. We have the whole place to ourselves. John goes across the grass to a cast-iron pump and starts pumping water to drink.”
…So it is that => Rt 55 vastly better fits the ZMM clues about the missed turn just prior to a freeway. For these reasons, Rt 55 would be quieter, safer, and a much more satisfactory Pirsig Pilgrim Experience!
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( Photo = 102-0284 ...... ZMM Page = 003 …… WayPt = 000k = Photo at WayPt = 010w ~4Mi West of Lowry MN.)