Back On the Road,
…AS WE LEARN ABOUT GUMPTION.
…… All Around Us, We See Awesome Baked-Dry Hills, Distant Mountains, And A Few Irrigated Fields.

The ZMM Narrator Says =>
“ …. then we get on and are moving again. .. The gumption-filling process occurs when one is quiet long enough to see and hear and feel the real universe, not just one’s own stale opinions about it. But it’s nothing exotic. That’s why I like the word. .. You see it often in people who return from long, quiet fishing trips. Often they’re a little defensive about having put so much time to "no account" because there’s no intellectual justification for what they’ve been doing. But the returned fisherman usually has a peculiar abundance of gumption, usually for the very same things he was sick to death of a few weeks before. He hasn’t been wasting time. It’s only our limited cultural viewpoint that makes it seem so.“ (Cont.Next)

Ten mi East of Baker, Oregon.
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(Photo = 111-1187 ...... ZMM Page = 273 ...... WayPt = 300i2 2552ft. Photo at WayPt = 301w 2970ft)