Inside The Little Pine Cafe' Back in Mitchel, OR. This Roadhouse Owner Illustrates What the Narrator May Have Experienced by Klamath Lake. Clearly This Restaurant Is Much, Much, Better Than What the Narrator Described at Klamath Lake.

…“ …. on my way back to our booth I take a second look at the owner behind the bar. A nineteen-twenties face. Uncomplicated, uncool and unbowed. This is his castle. We’re his guests. And if we don’t like his hamburgers we’d better shut up. .. When they arrive, the hamburgers, with giant raw onions, are tasty and the bottle beer is fine. A whole meal for a lot less than you’d pay at one of those old-ladies places with plastic flowers in the window. 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. “ (Cont .Next)


Somewhere along the Eastern shore of Klamath Lake, OR.

SIDE NOTE: Did Author Robert Pirsig Ever Explicitly Say => How To Pick A Good Restaurant.

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 Fred Goldman Emailed =>
…I am Fred Goldman: I spent thirty or forty years KNOWING that story about picking a restaurant from “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”. But, in fact, it is not in that book. …I would have sworn on my life that it was. Go figure.
…The story that I recollect t was told upon entering the region of Mt. Rushmore, a place that does not appear in “The Art”.
I remembered all my life two stories from that book.
… One is {Robert Pirsig’s idea] about the gumption trap that I tell others about all the time.
….The other was the restaurant story: look for two out of three things, namely, live flowers, curtains and a personal name on the marquis.
…Both of these stories have proven their worth countless times for me.

I look forward to your reply and the reason you have contacted me after all this time.

Fred

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(Photo = 113-1304 Restaurant Inside Mitchel, OR. ...... ZMM Page = 313 ...... WayPt = 383i2 ~4200 ft)