A Real Police Car, But No Policeman!
….This Situated Police Car Is Very Effective in Slowing the Error Prone Ways of The Speeding Tourist !

…. “At Cooke City John and Sylvia look and sound happier than I have seen them in years, … “

Cooke City, MT. I can tell you from direct "personal encounter” that seeing this Police Car was a very effective way to get the “newbee” to slam on the brakes, to avoid a ticket!
….Here also => I was promptly reminded of my ZMM obligation not to be in “such a hurry“. Avoiding being in “too much of a hurry“ is a ZMM Master Motif.
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…My Rand-McNally Road Map shows US-212 going (~8 miles roughly NW) toward the Beartooth Mountain Butte, then at the base of this Mountain, swinging North, crossing the Wyoming Border Into Montana, then curving around the base of Beartooth Butte to go West over Colter Pass (8,066 ft), and soon enter Cook City, MT.
…. After Cooke City, MT, US-211 will go through town of Silver Gate, MT: Then trending WSW, the road leaves Montana and be again in in Wyoming: Eventually US-212 reaches the Northeast Entry Gate to YNP. All of YNP is officially in Wyoming.
….The Narrator's eight page Discourse On Philosophy in his " High Country of the Mind," is completed at the end of Chapter 11, just before. Cook City, MT.
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….Chapter 12 opens with the above ZMM Passage. After Cook City, the ZMM Narrator discusses his lunch table conversations with John, Sylvia, & Chris:
….Also Narrator discusses his experience and reaction to YNP, and Tourist Attractions. This is mixed in, along with, Phaedrus's experience at Montana State College in Bozeman, MT.

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