Part IV: The Illustrated "Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Chapters 27 thru 32.  

Does Anyone Know The Location Of The Narrator’s “Sharp Turn Up An Overhanging Cliff”?

…Or Have Highway Improvements Eliminated Such Hazards?


We round a sharp turn up an overhanging cliff.“ ” (Cont Next)

Just South of Westport, CA. Does anyone know probable locations of the above passage? Originally, I assumed the Narrator meant the road turns sharply onto the top of a high “wall of rocks” that has a practically vertical drop.
…However In the kind of soil that generally forms these hills, a maximum of 45 degree inclines (hill slopes) are generally found.
…Steeper slopes, deserving the name “cliff”, would be found only where there is a ~70 degree incline, which usually & only caused by active ocean edge erosion, undercutting the sloping cliff at the bottom.
…From these considerations, the Narrator’s “cliff“ could be in the center of the /\ Above /\ Photo, just after the first break where the highway cannot be seen.
…This is where the highway, at its lowest elevation, and again curves out toward the ocean. It then proceeds up and along the top edge where the earth is sliding in a smooth, but steep ~70 degree incline, relatively free of vegetation, to the beach.
…In fact, all of the steep slopes, (from the place I was standing, all the way to the place where the
road turns left and goes steadily upward and out of view), could qualify as the Narrator’s “cliff.

…“NOTE: Concerning the very short segment of road seen at the far horizon: This road segment, goes over a relatively large, easily identifiable peninsula. On a map you will see that => Four miles beyond that peninsula, this road, after two towns, descends to the ocean edge at the town of Caspar and a small cove.
…As you will see, the town of Caspar and Caspar Bay & Anchorage, are quite important to Chris & the Narrator!
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(Photo = 116-1693cz1.3...... ZMM Page = 364 ...... WayPt = 461i ~300ft. Photo at 458w 0305ft)


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