Busy Four Lane Highway. View South (Forward) Towards La Pine.

….“I know what it is! We’ve arrived at the West Coast! We’re all strangers again! Folks, I just forgot the biggest gumption trap of all. The funeral procession! The one everybody’s in, this hyped-up, fuck-you, supermodern, ego style of life that thinks it owns this country. We’ve been out of it for so long I’d forgotten all about it.“ (Cont.Next)

North Side of Bend, OR. My Rand McNally Road Map (RMcN) marks as a “Scenic Route” US-97 South of Redmond, OR, all the way to the North entrance to Crater Lake National Park and beyond.
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Continuation Of Previous Topic => Narrator's Choice Of A "Bad" Route Through Redmond, OR On This Intense, Insane, High Speed, Busy 4 Lane Highway!
….On the 2nd Photo Previous, I pointed out that there are far better travel routes, than the Narrator's route South, which took him along the insanely busy 4 lane highway shown /\ Above /\ Photo.
….Because this highway did not meet his usual criterion, we make a => Hypothesis: Perhaps The Narrator’s ORIGINAL Plan Was To Continue To Travel Generally West From Prineville Junction, OR Through The Mountainous Three Sisters Wilderness Area Of Central Oregon. He Then Could Follow A Combination Of The Various Secondary Roads West To The Oregon Pacific Coast.
….However at Prineville Junction, OR the fatigue and discouragement plus bad dreams and the fear of return of insanity were so intense, the Narrator abruptly decided to switch to a shorter, less time consuming route to California coast. And as we learn in ZMM, to do so as fast as possible, and thus end his responsibility for Chris in San Francisco, before anything worse happened.
…Also, an “on the spot”, immediate “mind changer” may have been this => As shown on paper road maps such as Robert Pirsig would have been carrying, there are no evident roads continuing directly West from Prineville Junction at US-97. The nearest good road is Rt-242, which involves first going South for ~10 miles. This would force a “right here” 90 degrees turn South, which may have been perhaps enough to precipitate a hasty decision => “Keep Going South”
….More evidence for a hasty choice may be seen in the Narrator’s admission, later on (page 313) at the rundown but good food restaurant at Klamath Lake: “As we eat I see on the map we’ve taken a wrong turn way back and could have gotten to the ocean much quicker by another route.“.
….The above-mentioned “The Narrator’s ORIGINAL Plan” ALSO happens to fit a route, traced by black felt tip marker, on a National Geographic USA Wall Map given to me by John Sutherland. Sutherland, who said the map had originally been Mr. Pirsig’s.
….This Map is fully discussed in 2nd Photo Previous, but here is a REPEAT that discussion =>
….Author Robert Pirsig’s own Pre 1959 Proposed Road Trip Routes of Travel, going essentially West to the Pacific Ocean, by the Columbia River, and then following Coast Highways to San Francisco. This was essentially an “On A Map Draft of A Possible Trip Out West”, => Marked Out With Felt Tip Marker By Pirsig Himself On A 1951 National Geographic USA Wall Map Well Before His Actual 1968 trip.

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(Photo = 113-1331c ...... ZMM Page = 294 ...... WayPt = 357x 3442ft)