After Getting Around All Those Gumption Traps, You Still Must Live Right!

….“ [ Well, if I get around all those gumption traps, then will I have the thing licked? “ ]" .
…. “ The answer, of course, is no, you still haven’t got anything licked. You’ve got to live right too. It’s the way you live that predisposes you to avoid the traps and see the right facts. You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It’s easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally. That’s the way all the experts do it. The making of a painting or the fixing of a motorcycle isn’t separate from the rest of your existence. If you’re a sloppy thinker the six days of the week you aren’t working on your machine, what trap avoidances, what gimmicks, can make you all of a sudden sharp on the seventh? It all goes together. “(Cont.Next)

Several miles East of Prineville, OR. The poetic content of town name Prineville poetically sounds to me … prim, primp, prickly, rind- whine-ville and hostile.
…. Again There Is Metaphoric Bridge Connection, where in this case a town name used. This helps us (as readers), feel the Narrator’s complete, fatigue, discouragement, and depression. And similarly for Robert Pirsig as The Narrator when in Prineville area:
….The “whine-ville and hostile” town name so contributes to the whole mood, which Author Robert Pirsig has carefully assembled for us! And he probably also feels this, as he is writing these passages.
….In Summary: Note how the content of the Chautauqua Gumptionology Lecture and The Scenery are very wearing to both the Narrator and even you, the reader!
….BUT! BUT! => The problem is => We don’t at all, hear what is happening to Chris.
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Apologies For My Photos Failure To Show Realistic Time Of Day For The ZMM Narrative, Here And The Next 10 Photos.
….My /\ Above /\ Photo shows it’s getting dark, contrary to Narrator’s ” late afternoon letdown” , mentioned in Previous Photo.
….And fairly good daylight must have continued through Bend, Oregon (( as they continued to travel with the Narrator’s complete, fatigue, discouragement, and depression)), since it was still twilight, when they arrived at their camping spot South of Bend, OR, ANOTHER ~54 MILES AWAY !!

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At Upper Right, The Prineville, OR City Limits Sign.
…In Gumptionology => Right-Living Is An Essential Ingredient.

….“But if you’re a sloppy thinker six days a week and you really try to be sharp on the seventh, then maybe the next six days aren’t going to be quite as sloppy as the preceding six. What I’m trying to come up with on these gumption traps I guess, is shortcuts to living right. “ (Cont.Next)

Entering Prineville, OR. In /\ Above /\ Photo, directly ahead, you see two of Oregon’s many Volcanic Cinder Cones.
….As you can tell, my photos for Prineville area, show sunset conditions, and later darkness. Thus, my photos do NOT illustrate the ZMM Narrative, where in the Narrator and Chris travel with early evening light for another ~40 miles, before they are at their camping spot where the Narrator says .“ I look at the map in the twilight, and then look at it some more with the flashlight. “.
….So … Please excuse the day –night illumination misfit to the ZMM Narrative, for the /\ Above /\ and the next eight photos.

…DATE-LINE: February 9, 2022. by David J Matos & Henry Gurr.
… After reading the above ZMM Passage, DJM suggests adding => “Right-Living is a Buddhist idea, one of the tenets of the Eight-Fold Path.”
….YES, Indeed!! … Right-Living, the Narrators “ living right“, are a major (but unstated) undercurrent emphasis of ZMM Book, from cover to cover.
Thus, The ZMM Enthusiast Should Study More =>
…A) The Noble Eightfold Path … is an early summary of the path of Buddhist practices…Click Here.
…B) Click Here For Google Top Result for … “Right-Living” …,As Discussed By “The Buddhist Center” WebSite.
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In Prineville, OR, This Is the ONLY Gas Station Where The ZMM Route On US-26, Meets a Road that Turns South. =>
….BUT Things Don’t Fit => The ZMM Narrator’s “Highway 97, Where We’ll Turn South, …. .“
….Is 17 Miles Further West! Puzzle, Confusion, & Doubt Here!

….“The real cycle you’re working on is a cycle called yourself. The machine that appears to be "out there" and the person that appears to be "in here" are not two separate things. They grow toward Quality or fall away from Quality together.
….We arrive in Prineville Junction with only a few hours of daylight left. We’re at the intersection with Highway 97, where we’ll turn south, …. .“ (Cont.Next)

Junction US-26 and Rt-126, West side of Prineville, OR. In above passage the ZMM Narrator’s “ Prineville Junction.“, we assume is a town’s name. But my 1988 Rand-McNally Map does NOT show any apparent Town of Prineville Junction, OR.
...And thus unfortunately in 2002, I missed going to (or photographing) this location, because the “town” and the Narrator’s road to go there, were NOT marked on the map I carried with me. .
….But belatedly & later => With the help of TopoZone Maps, I discover that there was indeed A Prineville Junction, OR, 17 miles West of Prineville, OR, and is located almost exactly on the Narrator’s “Highway 97, Where We’ll Turn South,“.
….But even much later, by happenstance, I belatedly discovered Prineville Junction, OR was indeed also marked on a map, along with also the town of O’Neil, OR: This was on my 1964 Rand-McNally Map, just 4 years older, and old enough to still show Prineville Junction, OR!

Which is **AHA**! => How I Found Out Where Prineville Junction, OR Just Happened To ORIGINALLY Be Located!!
….Eventually I learned that =>This supposed “town” was merely, literally, & only => The Prineville Railroad’s Junction, at a true Railroad Junction, where it joins the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Main Railroad Tracks. AND this was ORIGINALLY Just “A Dot On A Map”, which is just 0.36 mile East of US-97, and four miles North of Redmond, OR.
….AND, of course, old maps are likely how Author Robert Pirsig knew of it and wrote it into his ZMM Narrative.
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Thus Confusion & Doubt Are Banished: All This Above Agrees With The Narrator’s Above Passage, AND Tells Us =>
…A) Practically The Only “Quality” Road Robert Pirsig Could Have Use In 1968, To Travel From Prineville, OR … TO … Prineville Junction, OR, Was The “O’Neil Highway” AND =>
…B) This, In Turn, Tells Us The ZMM Route Follows The O’Neil Highway, Rt-370, Along The Scenic Byway In The Crooked River Valley, And Somewhat Parallels The Route Of The Prineville Railroad..
….To go to Prineville Junction, OR from Prineville, OR MapQuest.com shows => You follow US-26 to the West side of Prineville, then turn left onto Rt-126. Within 500 feet, cross the Crooked River and then turn right onto the O’Neil Highway, Rt-370, which soon turns directly West, following the VERY Scenic Crooked River Valley!!
….Here we must mention that this => VERY Scenic Crooked River Valley, is in terms of Robert Pirsig and The ZMM Narrator, a “High Quality Road”, to be sought out by the ZMM Enthusiast!
….Or You May Want To Try The Excursion Train Ride!
Click Here To Go To The Website of City of Prineville to “Buy Dinner Train” By Ernestine Bousquet Jan 31, 2020.
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More Information About The Prineville Railroad, Which Runs From Prineville, OR … To … Prineville Junction, OR, By Way Of The Very Scenic Crooked River Canyon,
….Which Somewhat Parallels The Route Of The O'Neil Highway (Rt-370).
….This rail line, one of the USA’s oldest city owned lines, operates freight service and the "Crooked River Dinner and Excursion Train" for you to enjoy should you ever get out here. This 17 mile Railroad ends at a true Railroad Junction, where it joins the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Main Railroad Line which runs from Pasco, Washington to Modesto, California. (( More From Wikipedia. Click Here. ))

….So NOW You Understand Where This Name Prineville Junction Came From!!
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On The West Side Of Prineville, OR, at WayPt = 354 =>
….Traffic Is Heavy and Fast Where Rt-126 Branches off of US-26.

….“We arrive in Prineville Junction with only a few hours of daylight left. We’re at the intersection with Highway 97, where we’ll turn south, and I fill up the tank at the corner and then am so tired I go around in back and sit on the yellow-painted cement curb with my feet in the gravel and the last rays of the sun flaring through the trees into my eyes. “ (Cont.Next)

Photo on West side of Prineville, OR. As discussed in the previous photo => The above ZMM Passage takes place in Prineville Junction, OR some 17 miles West of /\ Above /\ Photo.
….And to get to Prineville Junction, OR, the ZMM Route follows the O’Neil Highway, Rt-370, in the scenic Crooked River Valley, and somewhat parallels the route of the Prineville Railroad.
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Since Prineville Junction, OR Is No Longer On Maps, Nor Can Be Hardly Found By Google, Where Just EXACTLY Is It?
In This Satellite View => The Red-Brown Triangle, Just Right Of Center, Marks The Location Of The Railroad Tracks for the Literal “Junction” Of:=> The City of Prineville’s Own Railroad Track, there to join the North-South tracks of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, and apparently also the-Union Pacific Railroad.
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In The Satellite Image, You Can See Where The Railroad Track =>
….1) From the North switches into a curved track that goes EastNorhteast. AND
….2) From the South switches into a curved track that joins into 1) above.
….3) Also See => The O’Neill Highway (Rt-370) which goes “a back country byway” all the way From Prineville, OR … To … Prineville Junction, OR and connects to US-97.

NOTE: This Rt-370, is practically the only road Robert Pirsig in 1968 could have used to travel from Prineville, OR and efficiently arrive at US-97 near to Prineville Junction.
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NEW TOPIC:
….Typically, the Narrator uses the poetic content of town names to emphasize his story. I have already discussed the poetics of word “Prineville”. Question: What “poetics” are being used here with the word “Junction”.

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Is This What the Narrator’s Curb Looked Like?

….“Chris comes and sits down too, and we don’t say anything, but this is the worst depression yet. All that talk about gumption traps and I fall right into one myself. Fatigue maybe. We’ve got to get some sleep.
.... I watch the cars go by for a while on the highway. Something lonely about them. Not lonely—worse. Nothing. Like the attendant’s expression when he filled the tank. Nothing. A nothing curb, by some nothing gravel, at a nothing intersection, going nowhere. “ (Cont.Next)

Photo On West Side of Prineville, OR. As discussed in the previous Two Photos => The above ZMM Passage takes place in Prineville Junction, some 17 miles West of /\ Above /\ Photo.
….And to get there, practically the only road Robert Pirsig 1968 could have used to travel West from Prineville, OR, and most efficiently arrive at US-97 near to Prineville Junction, would be to follow Rt-370, also called the O’Neil Highway: This 18 mile road travels from Prineville, Or to Prineville Junction, OR in the scenic Crooked River Valley Click Here to see Google Street View of River, For the first ~9 miles the road stays just south of the Crooked River’s wetlands. Soon after the 4 or 5 house town of O’Neil OR, the road continues approximately West, but the river trends off to the Northwest. ((NOTE: The above Blue Link shows a Google Street View (GSV) of the Crooked River at the bridge over the river, on West side of Prineville, OR. In this GSV, you may click-on the highway seen at right, again click-on twice the GSV to move forward, and click on at the right where you see turn onto Rt-370. From here you can “GSV Drive” west on Rt-370 to see what this Scenic ZMM Route here looks like. You will see a wide flat valley with distant hills on both sided. This valley has moisture and irrigation water from the river, so is greener than other highland areas of Central Oregon. Some places you will see the highway and Prineville Railroad run side by side, and several other places the highway crosses over the tracks. ))
….In going from Prineville, OR To Prineville Junction, OR both and The O’Neil Highway and the City of Prineville Railroad, travel in Crooked River Valley. Leaving Prineville, OR the railroad goes NW approximately a mile North of the highway, but the river, highway, and railroad become quite close in going through the town of O’Neil OR, and continuing side by side going West for ~3 miles. The rest of the way to Prineville Junction, OR they remain not too far separated.
….Since the Narrator (and Robert Pirsig in July 1968) must have traveled this Highway, it necessarily becomes “The ZMM Route”: And rightly so, since it is a narrower, slower, less traffic, less populated, & more scenic route. In other words a higher Quality highway and travel experience!
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What’s Actually AT Prineville Junction? => You Will See In The NEXT TWO Google Street Views.
….The ZMM Narrator says “ …arrive in Prineville Junction … at the intersection with Highway 97, where we’ll turn south, and I fill up the tank at the corner … “ .
….From these Views, you will see that it is QUITE UN-CERTAIN just where that “gas station … at the corner” could have been.
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For Deeper Understanding, Please Read Our => ZMM Research Examination => Why ZMM Narrator’s Abrupt 90 Degree Turn South at Prineville Junction, OR?
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ZMM ROUTE RESEARCH RESULT #1:
…Searching For Businesses Within A Mile of the Prineville Railroad Junction =>
……This Google Street View #1 (GSV1) Shows The ONLY Business That Looks Somewhat Like A Gas Station:
….This Is About Half Mile Away From US-97 And Is At Least, Where Robert Pirsig Could At Least Could Ask About A “Gas Station”.

….[ “We arrive in Prineville Junction with only a few hours of daylight left. We’re at the intersection with Highway 97, where we’ll turn south, and I fill up the tank at the corner and then am so tired I go around in back and sit on the yellow-painted cement curb with my feet in the gravel and the last rays of the sun flaring through the trees into my eyes. “ ] (Cont. Next)

Traveling West On Rt-370 From Prineville, OR, The First Business Where Robert Pirsig In 1968 Might Ask For Information As He Was Arriving At, Prineville Junction, OR. As discussed in the previous photo => The above ZMM Passage takes place in Prineville Junction, OR some 17 miles West of Prineville OR. And to get there most efficiently, The Narrator’s ZMM Route follows the O'Neil Highway, Rt-370, in the scenic Crooked River Valley, somewhat paralleling the route of the Prineville Railroad.

….Click Photo To Get The Largest View, Then Look Closely =>The Bottom Strip Map Shows =>
…1) Green Highway Line having Ovals with 370. This is O’Neil Highway, Rt-370, and The ZMM Route from Prineville, OR, 17 miles to the East.
…2) At Left: The Double Green Highway Line is US-97.
…3) The Narrow Green Lines mark irrigation ditches.
…4) The Narrow Very Faint Gray Lines Are Railroad Tracks.
…5) Above the words “Charles Every Trucking”, you see Gray Line Railroad Track Lines that form kind of a curved triangle. There you can see where the Railroad Track =>
……a) From the North switches into a curved track that goes EastNortheast. AND
……b) From the South switches into a curved track that joins into a) above.
……c) The approximately North-South Tracks are the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad,
….6) SUMMARY =>: This is literally A "Prineville Junction" , achieved by Railroad Tracks Joined!
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SIDE NOTE:
In The /\ Above /\ Photo, Bottom Strip Map Shows => “ Gray Line Railroad Track Lines That Form, Kind Of A Curved Triangle”. This Can Also Be Seen In Satellite View =>
In This Satellite View => The Red-Brown Triangle, Just Right Of Center, Marks The Location Of The Railroad Tracks For The Literal “Junction” => Of the City of Prineville Railroad Track, there to join the North-South tracks of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, and apparently also the-Union Pacific Railroad.
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The Next Photo Has A Full => EPILOGUE: CONCLUSION SUMMARY.
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ZMM ROUTE RESEARCH RESULT #2 => A GOOGLE STREET VIEW SHOWS =>
...WHAT’S AT THE INTERSECTION OF US-97 & O’NEIL HIGHWAY (Rt-370).
….At The Northeast Corner => This Google Street View #2 (GSV2) Shows The ONLY Business (Within A Mile) => That Is Remotely Similar To A Gas Station Where The ZMM Narrator Could “Sit & Watch Drivers On US-97.”
……Studying This GSV#2, You Can Imagine => How This Building & Property Lay-Out, Could Have Once Been A Gas Station, Albeit Unusual In Appearance.
….The Other Three Corners Are => a) Bare Red Dirt, b) Dry Grass & Trees, and c) Homes Surrounded By Dry Grass & Trees.

….[ "We arrive in Prineville Junction with only a few hours of daylight left. We’re at the intersection with Highway 97, where we’ll turn south, and I fill up the tank at the corner and then am so tired I go around in back and sit on the yellow-painted cement curb with my feet in the gravel and the last rays of the sun flaring through the trees into my eyes. …. " ]
….“I watch the cars go by for a while on the highway. Something lonely about them. Not lonely—worse. Nothing. Like the attendant’s expression when he filled the tank. Nothing. A nothing curb, by some nothing gravel, at a nothing intersection, going nowhere." (Cont. Next)

Traveling West On Rt-370 from Prineville, OR, Google Street View #2 (GSV2) of => The Only Business That Is Remotely Similar To A Gas Station Where Narrator Could “Sit & Watch Drivers On US-97”, Prineville Junction, OR. As discussed in the previous photo => The above ZMM Passage takes place in (or near) Prineville Junction, OR some 17 miles West of my Photos at WayPt = 354. And from Prineville, OR the only way most efficiently to get there, The Narrator’s ZMM Route follows the O'Neil Highway (Rt-370), in the scenic Crooked River Valley, and somewhat the route of the Prineville Railroad.
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Repeating Previous Photo Concerning Bottom Strip Map =>
….Click Photo To Get The Largest View, Then Look Closely =>The Bottom Strip Map Shows =>
…1) Green Highway Line having Ovals with 370. This is O’Neil Highway (Rt-370), and The ZMM Route from Prineville, OR, 17 miles to the East.
…2) At Left: The Double Green Highway Line is US-97.
…3) The Narrow Green Lines mark irrigation ditches.
…4) The Narrow Very Faint Gray Lines Are Railroad Tracks.
…5) Above the words “Charles Every Trucking”, you see Gray Railroad Track Lines that form kind of a curved triangle. There you can see where the Railroad Track =>
……a) From the North switches into a curved track that goes EastNortheast. AND
……b) From the South switches into a curved track that joins into a) above.
……c) The approximately North-South Tracks are the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad,
….6) IN SUMMARY: This is literally a Prineville Junction, achieved by the joining of Railroad Tracks! AND you can see how close this Railroad Prineville Junction is where The ZMM Passage says => “ We’re at the intersection with Highway 97, where we’ll turn south “ is described to take place.
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Due To The Narrator's Severe Depression And Fatigue, And Based On Evidence presented in the Previous 4 Photos & and above, I Believe that the Narrator, RIGHT HERE, at this /\ Above /\ Google Street View “Business” (or similar) Enterprise) => Makes an abrupt and major change of travel plans => Right here, to no longer travel West, but suddenly turn South !! As he sat on that => "nothing curb, by some nothing gravel, at a nothing intersection." .
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For Deeper Understanding, Please Read Our => ZMM Research Examination => Why ZMM Narrator’s Abrupt 90 Degree Turn South, At Prineville Junction, Oregon?
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EPILOGUE: CONCLUSION SUMMARY.
….The Narrator says => “We arrive in Prineville Junction." This leads us to expect that there is a real town here.
….However, in Searching Satellite Images (Previous Photo Blue Link near Bottom), all around the literal Junction of the Prineville Railroad to the North-South Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad => It is discovered that there is certainly no town at all, nor any form of population center!
….In fact, there is hardly anything, except bare earth, scattered dry trees & weeds, and widely spaced businesses or homes, mostly stretched out along the busy US-97, a bit further North or South.
….As Variously Stated In The Previous 4 Photos =>
…A) This Prineville Railroad Junction (Is Just A “Dot On A map”). And is found mostly only on OLD Road Atlas Maps … which is likely how Author Robert Pirsig knew of it ... and wrote it into ZMM.
…B) Since Prineville Junction, OR Is No Longer On Current Day Maps, Nor Hardly Ever Really Existed as a town! => This is why it is so hard to find out anything about "Prineville Junction" Oregon by using Google …OR …Find its exact location using traditional paper maps.

INDEED SINCE THE 1974 PUBLICATION OF ZMM, PRACTICALLY THE ONLY INFERRED EXISTENCE OF “THE TOWN OF” => "PRINEVILLE JUNCTION" Is IN The Book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”!!
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Looking North Into Busy, High Speed Traffic, Commercialized & Cluttered-Up US-97.
….Although The ZMM Narrator’s Journey South On This Road Was At Dusk, My Trip (and Photos) Are At Mid Day.

….[ “ I watch the cars go by for a while on the highway. Something lonely about them. Not lonely—worse. Nothing. Like the attendant’s expression when he filled the tank. Nothing. A nothing curb, by some nothing gravel, at a nothing intersection, going nowhere. … “ ]
….“ Something about the car drivers too. They look just like the gasoline attendant, staring straight ahead in some private trance of their own. … “ (Cont.Next)

Main Drag, Central Redmond, OR.
….As has been mentioned in previous photos, the ZMM Narrator fails to mention places he doesn’t like, such as tourist attractions and towns.
….AND, as you can see in the above photo, there are plenty good reasons why the Narrator neglects to mention Redmond, OR (Similar reasons apply to the previously unmentioned, traffic bustling town of Prineville, OR.)
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…DATE-LINE: July 8 2021. by Henry Gurr.
AN EXAMINATION OF THE REASONS FOR => THE ABRUPT 90 DEGREE TURN SOUTH AT PRINEVILLE JUNCTION?

If You Look At A Road Map (Or Satellite View Such As Blue Link Previous Photo), You Will See That The Narrator’s Travel Has Been Directly West Ever Since Baker City, OR And Approximately West Ever Since Bozeman, MT. So ... If Seeing Crater Lake (Or A Shorter Route To California) Was In Robert Pirsig’s Original Plans, Then Maps Show Shorter, Higher Riding Quality Roads, To Crater Lake.
….Now, Since The Narrator Did Not Take These, Then We Must Conclude There Must Have Been, In Reality, A Sudden Change Of Narrator’s Plans, Back At Prineville Junction, OR.
….As fully discussed in the Previous 6 Photos, the Narrator took the “Crooked River Route” (O'Neil Highway, Rt-370). This back-country, narrow, low traffic, scenic road, away from bustling high-speed traffic, certainly is consistent with the Narrator’s desire to take the lesser traveled “by-ways”. There, he choose a scenic Rt-370, low-traffic highway, to go West from Prineville, OR, to Prineville Junction, OR, thus avoiding the faster, more high speed traffic on the more recently constructed Rt-126, which goes directly between the major cities of Prineville, OR and Redmond, OR.

All This Is Very Reasonable Until We Trace The ZMM Route West On A Map =>
….We find Pirsig and Chris making a bee-line West through Central Oregon, essentially on US-26, as may be seen on a Road Map (Or Satellite View Such As Blue Link Previous Photo).
….Seeing this “bee-line West through Central Oregon”, we would expect the Narrator to continue essentially West to the Pacific Ocean.
This Is Supported By =>
….Pirsig (The Narrator) was quite keen on reaching the Pacific Coast. Saying for example =>
..1) At Klamath Lake Roadhouse, Narrator says ”… could have gotten to the ocean much quicker by another route.” AND
..2) In Chapter 29, upon arriving at the Pacific, the narrator remembers, "this was our great goal all these days.”
NOW … This Is Further Supported By =>
..3) 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.
..4) In Addition => There must have been, in reality, a last minute change of plans at Prineville Junction, OR, since there are plenty of other good (and perhaps better), low traffic byways to Crater Lake, which was evidently the Narrator’s chosen goal. (For the following, look at your map.)
….Given the Narrator’s criterion, an obvious choice (with shorter total physical distance), would be to travel the High Riding Quality, secondary roads & “scenic by-ways” that have long stretches of low traffic. … For example, at town of John Day OR, turning South off US-26. where you see back-country roads, shown as “small black lines” on my Rand-McNally Maps. These eventually angle over to Bend, OR, avoiding many miles of high trafficked main highways and the bustling, detestable city of Redmond, OR, and perhaps even parts of Bend, OR.
To Read More On This Topic And Learn Why The Abrupt Turn South, Click Here.

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Busy Four Lane Highway. View North Back Towards Redmond

….“They look just like the gasoline attendant, staring straight ahead in some private trance of their own. I haven’t seen that since . . . since Sylvia noticed it the first day. They all look like they’re in a funeral procession. .. Once in a while one gives a quick glance and then looks away expressionlessly, as if minding his own business, as if embarrassed that we might have noticed he was looking at us. I see it now because we’ve been away from it for a long time. The driving is different too. The cars seem to be moving at a steady maximum speed for in-town driving, as though they want to get somewhere, as though what’s here right now is just something to get through. The drivers seem to be thinking about where they want to be rather than where they are. .. “ (Cont.Next)

North Side Of Bend, OR. After having traveled the unpopulated, remote “back-country’ for most of the ZMM Route, and especially since Missoula, MT, the intense, busy traffic of US-97, of the four lane undivided main highway South from Redmond, OR, is indeed a sudden slap in the face!!
….As I stood by this intense, insane, high speed, busy 4 lane highway, I could feel real fear!! The fact that I had the sturdy guard rail between me and all that vicious traffic was no comfort. My heart was racing and I had the almost un-bearable panic urge "I've got to get out of here!!”
. At this location, no matter how long I waited, I could not get a vehicle-free photo, of this road. So, I had to settle for fewer than ordinary of these speeding of cars to get this photo.
….Although, I tried to wait for a lull in the traffic to get this, and the next two photos, as you can see, even the lulls had very, very, intense traffic!!
….The traffic on this road was bad for the Narrator years ago in 1968, and it was much, much, worse for me in 2002!

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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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The Trucks Just Roar On By In the Crowded Stream of Traffic!

….“We get into the stream of traffic going south and I can feel the hyped-up danger close in. I see in the mirror some bastard is tailgating me and won’t pass. I move it up to seventy-five and he still hangs in there. Ninety-five and we pull away from him. I don’t like this at all.“ (Cont.Next)

Entering Bend, OR. About the traffic, I must agree with the Narrator, having been there! I especially remember my intense experience while standing by this highway and trying to take my eight photos for a panorama!
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NEW TOPIC:
….Ever since before Prineville, OR, the Oregon landscape views include huge volcanic cones in all directions. Thirty miles to the West and a bit North of this location, unmentioned by the Narrator, are several close together and beautiful, snow covered, very high volcanic cones called The Three Sisters.
….You can see these in my Panorama Photo Gallery =>
Right Click and Open In A New Tab: AFTER This Panorama Photo Comes Up, ClickDrag The SlideBar Below Photo Until You Get To Photo Right Edge, Whereupon You Will See The Beautiful, Snow Covered Volcanic Cones Called The Three Sisters.

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The Pine Tavern Is an Old and Venerable Oregon Institution.

….“At Bend we stop and have supper in a modern restaurant in which people also come and go without looking at each other. The service is excellent but impersonal.“ (Cont.Next)

Boutique Shopping Area, Looking Along Oregon Avenue From Wall Street Bend, OR. Wall Street, was once US-97 straight through this bustling town, and is where I stopped to look for the Narrator’s “ modern restaurant “.
….But, after looking around for 30 minutes, and not much finding any fit to the Narrator’s Restaurant, decided to settle for the /\ Above /\ Photo.

….Mr. Phil Rudy of Bend, OR, says =>
“The Pine Tavern is an age-old institution of this town. I’d wager that this location was a road house and tavern in the very earliest Pioneer Days of Oregon history.”
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….As you can imagine, the intensely forceful high speed traffic of US-97 originally straight through Central Downtown Bend, OR, eventually became impossible: There is now a .“ supermodern … hyped-up danger close in“, Four Lane Divided Bypass Expressway, 4 blocks to the East.

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Scrubby Trees Are Result of Very Little Rain and Deep, Deep, Layers of Nutrient Poor Volcanic Dust.

….“Farther south we find a forest of scrubby trees, …. “ (Cont.Next)

By US-97 Somewhere South of Bend, OR. The Narrator does not mention a huge volcanic cinder cone called Lava Butte that is 10 miles South of Bend, OR.
…..This volcanic wonder and wonderful tourist attraction, which dominates the local scenery for many a mile around, is along the West side of US-97. At the Entrance Drive, there is a big sign.
….This is immediately beside US-97 and might have cheered Chris up if they had stopped to see it AND climb up the road to the top!! Such would have been a good Father-Son activity!!
….However => Such natural wonders (i.e. tourist attractions, other than the road scenery) are mostly ignored in ZMM.
….In forthcoming photo, I say more about the Narrator’s tourist attraction dislikes at the turnoff to enter Crater Lake National Park.
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…. Lava Butte Is A Cinder Cone In Central Oregon, United States, just west of U.S. Route 97 between the towns of Bend, Oregon, and Sunriver, Oregon. It is part of a system of small cinder cones on the northwest flank of Newberry Volcano, a massive shield volcano which rises to the southeast. The cinder cone is capped by a crater which extends about 60 feet (20 m) deep beneath its south rim, and 160 feet (50 m) deep from the 5,020-foot (1,530 m) summit on its north side. Lava Butte is part of the Newberry National Volcanic Monument.
To Read This Wikipedia Article, With 3 Good Photos, Click Here.
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Satellite View Of Lava Butte. As Described Above This Satellite View (Image Data 2021), Shows The Lava Lands Visitor Center & Parking Lot. Zoom Out To See Cinder Cone.
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A Forest of Scrubby Trees Similar To Those Where the Narrator and Chris Likely Camped.

…. [ “ ….forest of scrubby trees, “ ] “ subdivided into ridiculous little lots. Some developer’s scheme apparently.“ (Cont.Next)

Somewhere North of, but close to, La Pine, OR.
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Where Is The Housing Development “With The Ridiculous Tiny Lots”? 2002 ZMM Research & Findings.
....From Bend, OR, while traveling South towards La Pine, OR, I traveled slower than usual, and closely studied the landscape on both sides of US-97 looking for any present-day evidence of these “ ridiculous little lots..“
….For many miles prior to La Pine, practically ALL of the land adjoining the highway is under the close control of the National Forest Service. No houses or businesses AT ALL!
….As I remember, the land visible from the highway, was fairly flat and, except for various private property, was covered with pine forest, dense enough to block vision at a depth of 30 feet into the forest. This flatness seemed to extend for at least a mile in all directions. The surrounding mountains were not high enough to be seen above the trees, as I drove

A Place That Might Qualify As The Narrator’s 1968 Campsite At “ Ridiculous Little Lots..“ Was A Semi Populated Area Centered Around A Major Side Road Along US-97, About 5 Miles North Of La Pine, OR.
.….This place was on a side road, as I remember it, and the only road, dirt or paved, for quite a distance prior to La Pine. OR. I remember there were buildings on the East side of US-97 in that immediate area. If there were any road (or drive) going East in this area, it is a minor road. In addition to other nearby private properties near that intersection, there is a fairly large mobile home park on the NW corner where the side road intersected with US-97.
….Judging from the general quality of the vegetation plus age of the mobile homes, this could well have been started earlier than 1968, and had mostly empty lots, because of a very slow rate of people moving into these sites. As is normal for most other trailer villages, it would eventually be … crowded side-by-side … Cheek by Jowl on Small Narrow Lots! (Continued next)
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…DATE-LINE: July 11 2021. by Henry Gurr.
(ChangesSinceRobertPirsig’s1968Trip), As Seen By HSG in 2002 & 2021.)
Starting with my above stated 2002 ZMM Research Findings, I studied Google Satellite for the Narrator’s “ridiculous little lots“, and found a very likely candidate, 5.8 miles North of La Pine, OR. This Satellite View Shows => My (Henry Gurr’s) Best Finding As To => Where Is The Housing Development” With The Ridiculous Tiny Lots“
….The RedPinpoint, marks => “Cascade Meadows RV Resort”, AND as you can see in the Satellite View (Image Data 2021), these “lots” are indeed small, because it is for Camping Trailers, rather than a Mobil Home Trailer Park, or a Housing Development. (GPS Coordinates are in the Blue Link. ))

PostScript:
….You see that my above statement (from memory and research paper notes back in 2002), of where I had seen these lots back in 2002, is mostly correct, except the lots are in the SE on the SE corner where the side road intersected with US-97, rather than the NW corner:

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Although Balmy Now, It Will Cool Off With the Passing Hours =>
….Making Frost Next Morning.

….“ At one of the lots far off the main highway we spread out our sleeping bags …. “ (Cont.Next)

5.8 Miles North of La Pine, OR.
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….Where Is The Housing Development “With The Ridiculous Tiny Lots”? 2002 and 2021 ZMM Research & Findings.
....As stated in Previous Photo => While traveling South from Bend, OR towards La Pine, OR back in 2002, I traveled slower than usual, and closely studied the landscape on both sides of US-97, looking for any present-day evidence of these “ ridiculous little lots“, and found a candidate….But at the time, back in 2002, I was not sure, so I did not take a photograph (nor make a GPS record), because I thought better candidates would be "On Down the Highway".
.… I was wrong … But by the time I realized this, it was too late, and too many miles to go back. And what’s worse, my memories & notes were not good enough, to pinpoint the location, when it came time to post these photos of my ZMM Research.
….My ZMM Research Continued In La Pine, OR, Where I Talked To Practically Everyone I Saw.
….I asked about the history of the town’s only restaurant, and the adjacent gas station, and probed into the Narrator’s “subdivided into ridiculous little lots. Some developer’s scheme apparently.“
….An elderly couple I talked to remembered when a new US-97 was put in. Considering that the Narrator may have traveled that older road, now called Huntington Road, they remembered campsite possibilities that may have been along it, perhaps near the intersection of Burgess Rd.
….Along Huntington Road, Topozone map Shows =>
…1) More housing developments South & North of, but were full sized lots.
…2) There is a mobile home place 9/10 mile North of Burgess Rd, but it seems unlikely the Narrator would have turned off of US-97 to go that way.
To View TopoZone Topographic (Topo) Map Centered on the Restaurant In La Pine, OR => Right Click And Open In A New Tab. =>
….After Map View Comes Up, You Will See an AWFUL Clutter of Adverts That Are Impossible To Eliminate => YOU BEST SHOULD =>
….Use Scroll Bar At Far Right => Adjust Green Topo Map Until You See JUST BELOW The Plus&Minus Upper Left. => A ClickOn For “Full Screen”. Click on it, and in ~40 seconds the screen will fill and Adverts Will Be GONE. =>
….Then use Plus&Minus To Zoom. You can “Click&Drag” Map In Any Direction to See More Off Your Screen Edges.
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…DATE-LINE: July 11 2021. by Henry Gurr.
(ChangesSinceRobertPirsig’s1968Trip) As Seen By HSG in 2002 & 2021.)
….In the Previous Photo, I mentioned how I was able to find the “Cascade Meadows RV Resort” by studying a Satellite View for “a likely candidate” for The Narrator’s “ subdivided into ridiculous little lots. Some developer’s scheme apparently.“ From this, I was able to give an Internet Link to it, so you could also see what it looked like.
….But, Back In ~2004 When I Was Originally Posting These Photos Of My ZMM Research, I Was UN-Able To Actually Find The “Cascade Meadows RV Resort” , because I only had Topozone Maps, and my Memories & Research Paper Notes.
….But, now-a-days with Google Satellite Views, in retrospect, finding the Narrator’s “ ridiculous little lots“ was rather easy, requiring about 20 minutes once I got going.
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Very Fine, Soft Dust That Sticks to Everything.

….“ …. and discover that the pine needles just barely cover what must be many feet of soft spongy dust. I’ve never seen anything like it. We have to be careful not to kick up the needles or the dust flies up over everything. .. We spread out the tarps and put the sleeping bags on them. That seems to work. “ (Cont.Next)

5.8 Miles North of La Pine, OR. I found this dust several places in Oregon, exactly as described by the Narrator. The first place was at the Lava Lands Visitor Center just South of Bend, OR. The 2nd and 3rd places were some 55 travel miles further South, at the Coral Springs Campground (where I stayed overnight), and then some 29 miles further South, at the entrance to Crater Lake National Park.

In This General Area, Widely Spaced, Short Scrubby Pines Seemed To Be An Indicator Of This Especially Deep Dust. In This Same Area, The Gravel Along The Road, As Seen In My Photographs, Was Brick Red Volcanic Cinders.
….I hypothesize that vehicles will bog down and get stuck easily in the soft spongy volcanic dust. Hence the necessity for the red volcanic cinders, seemingly the only available substitute for gravel or hard packed earth.
….I imagine that the red volcanic cinders must likewise be used to make a stable road bed under the asphalt pavement.
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Sunset Illuminates A Flying Saucer Shaped Cloud.

….“Chris and I talk for a while about where we are and where we are going. I look at the map in the twilight, and then look at it some more with the flashlight. We’ve covered 325 miles today. That’s a lot. Chris seems as completely tired as I am, and as ready as I am to fall asleep. “
….(End ZMM Chapter. 26 & End ZMM Part III.)

5.8 Miles North of La Pine, OR. Here we should pause to note carefully => In the above ZMM Passage, suddenly in a change of behavior, the Narrator helpfully talks to Chris. Is this because, concurrent with the decision at Prineville Junction, OR to turn 90 degrees to the South, he also decided to try to treat Chris better? This also fits his decision to show Chris Crater Lake, and being nice to Chris despite this being a Tourist Attraction!
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YOU HAVE NOW COMPLETED THE PHOTOS FOR ZMM PART III.
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The Photos For ZMM Part IV Continue In The Next Album.
….The Next Album is where you will find Photos for ZMM Part IV, where you will see 264 photos illustrating how the ZMM Narrator and Chris leave their camp spot just North of La Pine, OR, and continue through Oregon into Northern California, then along the California Pacific Coast to San Francisco. And, just before they cross the Golden Gate Bridge. This is the end of ZMM Book, and their apparent journey end.
Click Here, And AFTER This Page of 4 SubAlbums Comes Up =>Click On FOURTH Album = ZMM Part IV,
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ALTERNATIVE PHOTO GALLERY NAVIGATION;
….In this Photo Gallery => At any time, you can click on one of the several Blue Links at upper right. This will take you successively to higher Album “Levels”, where you can then click on where you want to go.
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