This Above Intersection, And the Exit Road From The US-101 Freeway To This Point, Even With A Line Of “Sodium Lighat + A Sign Announces "Stop".” br />
…Best Fit the Narrator’s Sequence of Passages.

…And Matching The ZMM Narrative Above, You See, At Respectively Left & Right => A “ Sodium Light + A Sign Announces "Stop".”

…Of Course, Major Contrary To What You See Above, The ZMM Narrator & Chris Experienced Roads Like This In Rain & Total Dark!

…“ We take the next exit from the freeway, hoping it will lead somewhere, and soon are on bumpy blacktop with ruts and loose gravel. I go slowly. Streetlamps overhead throw swinging arcs of through the sheets of rain. We pass from light into shadow into light into shadow again without a single sign of welcome anywhere. A sign announces "STOP" to our left, but does not tell which way to turn. One way looks as dark as the other. We could go endlessly through these streets and not find anything, and now not even find the freeway again. .. "Where are we?" Chris shouts. .. "I don’t know." My mind has become tired and slow. I can’t seem to think of the right answer—or what to do next.
..Now I see ahead a white glow and bright sign of a filling station far down the street” ” Cont. Next.)

Stop sign, Business District, Fortuna, CA. After considerable search I conclude the following => Of all the towns in this area of California, this stop sign, this road, and the road from the Freeway into this town, Including dual rows of Sodium Lights, best fit the Narrators’ overall descriptions.

…For this /\ Above /\ Photo and several later photos, it was full sunny daylight when I was doing my ZMM Route Research. And of course, this is what my photos show. I’m sorry not to be able to always show photos appropriate for the Narrator’s passages describing driving at dark and in the rain.

NOTE:
At Fortuna, CA the ZMM Narrator departs from his normal practice of giving the town name of the filling station or the motel. As we have seen before, he often does this when the scenes reported seem to be particularly disagreeable to him. My statement above about “no motels” seems extreme and therefore possibly in error. Can someone please help here?

Confirming (again), the factual accuracy of ZMM => The NEXT Photo has a full explanation, as to WHY there are no Motels near this Fortuna, CA Freeway Exit.
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(Photo = 116-1639c ...... ZMM Page = 359 ..... WayPt = 441aw 0061ft)