Sunset on West Main. West view.
.Sylvia and John and Chris and I walk up the long main street in the gathering dusk and feel the presence of the mountains even though we talk about other things. I feel happy to be here, and still a little sad to be here too. Sometimes its a little better to travel than to arrive.
West Main Street, Laurel, MT. The Hotel where John, Sylvia, Chris and the narrator stayed is one block to the right of East Main Street, shortly after they entered town.
.. To travel is better to travel than to arrive
. is one of the many often repeated phrases in ZMM. It is thus yet another ZMM Master Motif, as is much discussed in Guidebook to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
by Ronald L. DiSanto, Tomas J. Steele..
.According to the ZMM Narrator => Our ZMM Travelers arrived after sunset. This gave them enough time to check-in to their hotel, finish supper and be out walking at dusk. Our ZMM travelers apparently had much more enjoyable weather this day of their trip, than the previous several days.
..As you can tell from my photos for both 2002 and 2006, I had mostly good weather from Plevna, MT to Laurel, MT, and continue to the East Gate of Yellowstone National Park.
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THE INCREDIBLE SACAGAWEA STORY & HISTORY;
... Sacagawea; (1788 1812 or? 1884) was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who, at age 16, met and helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition in achieving their chartered mission objectives by exploring the Louisiana Territory. Sacagawea traveled with the expedition thousands of miles from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean, helping to establish cultural contacts with Native American populations and contributing to the expedition's knowledge of natural history in different regions.
. At about age 13, she was sold into a non-consensual marriage to Toussaint Charbonneau, a Quebecois [French Canadian, who was a Fur] Trapper.
. Wintering over in 180405
[Lewis & Clark] interviewed several trappers who might be able to interpret or guide the expedition up the Missouri River in the springtime. Knowing they would need the help of Shoshone tribes who lived at the headwaters of the Missouri, they agreed to hire Toussaint Charbonneau after learning that his wife, Sacagawea, spoke Shoshone. She was pregnant with her first child at the time. Age 16.
. Clark and other members of the Corps nicknamed the boy "Pomp" or "Pompy."
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