Part III: The Illustrated "Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" Chapters 16 thru 26.  

In 1968, Chris & The ZMM Narrator’s Restaurant Must Have Been At Lolo Hot Springs.
…BUT, Because Accurate Photos From “Back Then” Are Unavailable, The Google Street View, November 2015 Version, Seen Above, Shows Approximately What They Would Have Seen.

Looking From Lolo Creek Road Roadway: A Google Street View of the Lolo Hot Springs Resort Where =>

..A) The Huge And Grand Modern Lodge Is Off Photo To Left.
..B) Building At Left Is The Boulder Room Restaurant. ….
..C) Next To The Right, With Green Awning, Is A General Store.
..D) To Right Of The Big Sign, Is The Hot Springs Swimming Pool Service Building.
..E) Next To The Right, Look Closely, See The Wire Fence Around The Hot Springs Swimming Pool.
..F) At The Base Of The Granite Boulder Ridge, Above Swimming Pool, Was The Original Location Of The Hot Springs: These Springs were seen & used & surely enjoyed by Native Americans and Lewis & Clark, and Subsequent Generations.


….[ “At Lolo Pass “ ]. we see a restaurant, and pull up in front of it beside an old Harley high-miler. It has a homemade pannier on the back and thirty-six thousand on the odometer. A real cross-country man.
.. .. Inside we fill up on pizza and milk, and when finished leave right away. There’s not much sunlight left, and a search for a campsite after dark is difficult and unpleasant.
“ (Cont.Next)

~7 miles Before Top Of Lolo Pass and the MT-ID border, At 38500 Lolo Creek Road, Lolo, MT.
….There is a nice Lodge and Restaurant at Lolo Hot Springs, which is in far western Montana, about 7 mi prior to Idaho border. All things considered, this almost certainly must have been the ZMM restaurant “at: Lolo Pass” .
The Lolo Hot Springs Resorts Own WebSite Says =>
….The Boulder Room Restaurant and Bar is located at Lolo Hot Springs Resort. The resort is on 125 acres of private property in the middle of the Lolo National Forest, 37 miles southwest of Missoula on Highway 12 West. A saloon with live entertainment, a restaurant, a gallery, and natural mineral hot springs pools are all available at the resort.
…. Dining is also available at the coffee shop/café.
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….This Restaurant Is Actually Part Of A Tourist Resort, An Idea Which Always Seems To Happen At Most Naturally Occurring Hot Mineral Springs.
….But the ZMM Narrator gives no information about Lolo Hot Springs, or even its name! … Is this because of its tourist nature? And similar to other tourist places, we see again the reason, we are not given the location or any other facts about the Hot Springs, or even the Restaurant.
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…A) . To See 104 Photos Of Lolo Hot Springs Resort, Click Here. You will see their Buildings, Inside, & Out, including The Hot Springs Swimming Pool. Both Summer & Winter photos are shown.
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…B) To See Over 40 REALLY GOOD & LARGE Photos Of Lolo Hot Springs Resort, Click Here. You will see their Buildings, Inside, & Out, including The Hot Springs Swimming Pool. Both Summer & Winter photos are shown.
…C) This Google Street View (GSV) Is Perhaps Better Than A 360 Degree Full Circle Panorama, Since It Can In Addition A) Look Farther Up AND Down, Plus GSV Offers The Ability To Zoom And Magnify, And See Better Distant Details!! RIGHT CLICK HERE AND SELECT “NEW TAB” =>
….INSTRUCTIONS =>After Google Street View (GSV) Comes Up, Then => Click on the Google Street View Image, WHERE you want the “VIEW” To go. => Thus you can Successively Click-Click-Click & “GSV Drive” Along The street you see on your computer screen.
….You could “GSV Drive” => 1) Down US-12, several miles back, to see The Narrator’s Giant Rocks, OR 2) Up US-12, seven miles forward, to experience The Narrator’s road to Lolo Pass. …. At any time you can Click On The Plus&Minus To Zoom …. AND You can “Click&Drag” the Image On Screen in any direction, for a better view.
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(Photo = GoogStVu LoloHotSpringsResortBoulderRmRestrStoreSwimPoolBoulderRidge.jpg ...... ZMM Page = 243 ...... WayPt = 259i ~4100ft)


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