From Inside The Owl Café, A Picture Window View Looking To The South And a Bit West Toward The Mountains Of Southern Montana & Wyoming.

….“ …. while I listen and gaze through the large restaurant window at the storefront across the road. So different now from that lonely night in South Dakota. Beyond those buildings are mountains and snowfields. .. Sylvia says John has talked to someone in town about another route to Bozeman, south through Yellowstone Park."

203 E. Main Street, Laurel, MT. The /\ Above /\ Photo shows what the ZMM Narrator would have seen, out the front window of the Owl Café l. Beyond those buildings and a giant railroad switch yard of the Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway, do lie distant mountains to the South and somewhat West. But to look in the direction of the highest mountains and Red Lodge, MT, would require looking at a considerable angle to the Southwest.
….The above ZMM Passage shows the spatial orientation ability of the Narrator, which comes from his considerable previous mountain climbing experience plus his intimate knowledge of this local area as well as the distant high mountains, in the direction of Yellowstone National Park.
….As a traveler, the Narrator would have been able to project spatially the direction of the highest mountains from a site such as the Owl Café. Author Robert Pirsig would have a similar spatial orienting ability when writing ZMM.
….Within walking distance of the Hurzler Hotel, I did not see any other Laurel restaurant that would have been a better “fit” to the clues given in ZMM.

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(Photo = (Photo = Summer2006 0398) ...... ZMM Page = 105 ...... WayPt = 123`|u|' 3396ft)