Part I: The Illustrated "Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Chapters 1 thru 7.  

Campground & My Tent, Which Is At The Campground Where The ZMM Narrator, Chris and John & Sylvia Sutherland Stayed In July 1968.

…"A gibbous moon comes up from the horizon beyond the pines, and by its slow, patient arc across the sky I measure hour after hour of semisleep. Too much fatigue. The moon and strange dreams and sounds of mosquitoes and odd fragments of memory become jumbled and mixed in an unreal lost landscape in which the moon is shining and yet there is a bank of fog and I am riding a horse and Chris is with me and the horse jumps over a small stream that runs through the sand toward the ocean somewhere beyond. And then that is broken . . . .And then it reappears.
…And in the fog there appears an intimation of a figure. It disappears when I look at it directly, but then reappears in the corner of my vision when I turn my glance. I am about to say something, to call to it, to recognize it, but then do not, knowing that to recognize it by any gesture or action is to give it a reality which it must not have. But it is a figure I recognize even though I do not let on. It is Phædrus.
…Evil spirit. Insane. From a world without life or death.
….The figure fades and I hold panic down . . . tight . . . not rushing it . . . just letting it sink in . . . not believing it, not disbelieving it . . . but the hair crawls slowly on the back of my skull . . . he is calling Chris, is that it? . . . Yes?
“ . . . End Chapter 5.

Campground, Shadehill Reservoir Lake, SD. where the Petrified-Log Fire-palace of previous photo, is illuminated by the pink glow at left. The campground has been much improved since 1968 and is now a very nice place! The temperature was good for camping and I experienced only 1 or 2 mosquitos.
…However, I experienced a violent thunderstorm that night, which produced much close-up lightning & monster wind gusts!
…I nearly always camped my entire ZMM Research Trip, from Minneapolis to San Francisco, and all my campgrounds, including this one, were good experiences, except for this storm.
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(Photo = 104-0422c ...... ZMM Page = 056 ...... WayPt = 068`|z' 2210ft)


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