Part III: The Illustrated "Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" Chapters 16 thru 26.  

Added July 2024: The Above Google Street View, Shows The ZMM Narrator’s “Drop Back ,,, In Time”
.… At Kooskia, ID, The ZMM Route Leaves US-12 (Seen In Bottom Strip Mao At Right), And Makes A 90 Degree Turn South Onto Rt-13, Which Follows Upstream, The South Fork Of The Clearwater River.


The ZMM Narrator says =>
”Highway 13 follows another branch of our river but now it goes upstream past old sawmill towns and sleepy scenery. Sometimes when you switch from a federal to a state highway it seems like you drop back like this in time. Pretty mountains, pretty river, bumpy but pleasant tar road . . . old buildings, old people on a front porch . . . strange how old, obsolete buildings and plants and mills, the technology of fifty and a hundred years ago, always seem to look so much better than the new stuff. Weeds and grass and wildflowers grow where the concrete has cracked and broken. Neat, squared, upright lines acquire a random sag. The uniform masses of the unbroken color of fresh paint modify to a mottled, weathered softness. Nature has a non-Euclidian geometry of her own that seems to soften the deliberate objectivity of these buildings with a kind of random spontaneity that architects would do well to study.”

Rt-13, Along The South Fork Of The Clearwater River, Kooskia, ID.

EXPLANATION:

…The /\Above/\ Google Street View, and NEXT ELEVEN Photos are Henry Gurr’s attempt to find, in and partly beyond the town of Kooskia ,ID, what The ZMM Narrator says =>
” drop back like this in time. Pretty mountains, pretty river, bumpy but pleasant tar road . . . old buildings, ….old, obsolete buildings and plants and mills, the technology of fifty and a hundred years ago …. . Weeds and grass and wildflowers grow where the concrete has cracked and broken. Neat, squared, upright lines acquire a random sag. The uniform masses of the unbroken color of fresh paint modify to a mottled, weathered softness.”

File = GoogStVu Kooskia ID OldSleepyBldings 01


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