This Cut In The Rock Was NOT Made By the California Highway Department. The Russian River Got Here First!

…This River Over Past Eons, Managed to Cut This Wonderful Valley Down From the Surrounding Hills.

…The Highway Followed the River Through This Gap.

…[ “ … and Hopland, and Cloverdale, ” ] “down into the wine country. The freeway miles seem so easy now. The engine which has carried us halfway across a continent drones on and on in its continuing oblivion to everything but its own internal forces. We pass through … ” (Cont Next)

About seven miles SouthSouthEast of Hopland, CA. This Valley and the Russian River started in the mountains well North of Ukiah, flows through Mendocino Lake, and continues South, half way to San Francisco Bay, and then turns West through a mountain range to the Pacific Ocean.
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Now We Really Are In Wine Country! As The ZMM Narrator Says => “Exquisite!“

…“ …. down into the wine country. …. ” (Cont Next)
Half mile South of Asti, CA.

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A View of the Old Road South Out of Asti.

…“ …. We pass through Asti, …. ” (Cont Next)

Half mile South of Asti, CA. The Old Road that originally connected the series of towns going South to San Francisco, remains much as it was well before July 1968 when Chris and the Narrator through here.
…This is because all the fast traffic follows the "New" US-101, a four lane divided restricted access highway, which is just West of the original river valley road to San Francisco, and on purpose by-passes all the towns.
…This photo shows the older road South out of Asti, CA. The above passage would lead us to believe the Narrator came along this very strip of pavement, straight through Asti, and continued South.
…In later passages, the Narrator says they were on a freeway. Either way, the ZMM Enthusiast should follow the old road, as a true Pirsig Pilgrim.
…Consult local maps or TopoZone, to see how to find the sections of old road starting in Ukiah, CA. They will most assuredly be there!!

NOTE: The /\ Above /\ Photo is part of an 8 Photo Panorama, as mentioned in previous photo, with link to viewing.
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As We Pass Through Coastal Northern California Wine Country, The Freeway Becomes Wider and Wider.

…Standing On The Rt-12 Overpass Bridge And Looking South We, See Dense High Speed Traffic On Freeway US-101.
… [ “ …. The freeway miles seem so easy now. The engine which has carried us halfway across a continent drones on and on in its continuing oblivion to everything but its own internal forces. We pass through Asti and Santa Rosa, and …. ” ] (Cont Next)

Overpass bridge, Rt-12 intersection with US-101, Santa Rosa, CA. The ZMM Narrator's motorcycle engine, with it’s “nickels and dimes loose change sound” purrs ever onward. The happy result of good maintenance!
…And we can tell life is now much better for Chris and the Narrator!

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As We Pass Through Coastal Northern California Wine Country, The Freeway Becomes Wider and Wider.

…Standing On The Rt-12 Overpass Bridge And Looking Southwest, We See The Curved Ramp That Tell Us This Is A Cloverleaf Interchange. And Beyond Is A General View of Santa Rosa

…The ZMM Route, After Traveling Back-Country, Ever Since The Interstate-90 In Missoula, MT, This Is Perhaps The First ~Big Population Cloverleaf Interchange!
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[ “ …The engine … drones on and on in its continuing oblivion to everything but its own internal forces. We pass through Asti and Santa Rosa, and …. ” ] (Cont Next)
NOTE: Now that we are suddenly aware that we are back into ~high population, we remember the ZMM Narrator’s =>. “ …lonely people. It’s paradoxical that where people are the most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities in the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest. “

Overpass bridge, Rt-12 intersection with US-101, Santa Rosa, CA. If you have been watching the elevation numbers you will have noticed a gradual drop in altitude from Ukiah, CA (545ft) to here at Santa Rosa, CA(116ft). This is the general drop of elevation as we come down the Russian River Valley that we have been following. The river itself cuts through the mountain range to the West about 11 miles back. But this valley apparently continues, albeit uphill, from here South for at least another 25 miles. Ahead you will see the elevations for Petaluma, CA (185ft) and Novato (415ft).
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…. “And So We Ride On And On, Down Through Ukiah, And Hopland, And Cloverdale, Down Into The Wine Country. …. ”
Click Here For A Satellite View Showing At Center, The /\ Above /\ Photo’s Cloverleaf Interchange, In California’s “ Wine Country.”
…AFTER this Satellite View comes up =>
…A) You well see US-101, With Hopland, CA at top and Novato, CA at bottom.
…B) You will see that the GPS coordinates for Santa Rosa, CA are in URL Line in box at top.
…C) Please ClickOn the Minus [-] Icon Lower Right, to Zoom-In, and see an Aerial View of the Cloverleaf Interchange.
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As We Pass Through Coastal Northern California Wine Country, The Freeway Becomes Wider and Wider.

…Standing On The Rt-12 Overpass Bridge And Looking North We, See A Second View Of The Dense High Speed Traffic On Freeway US-101.

… [ “The freeway miles seem so easy now. The engine which has carried us halfway across a continent drones on and on in its continuing oblivion to everything but its own internal forces. We pass through Asti and Santa Rosa, and …. ” ] (Cont Next)

Overpass bridge, Rt-12 intersection with US-101, Santa Rosa, CA.
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Poetics, And Metaphoric Bridge Connections, In Author Robert Pirsig’s ''Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance” =>
…During the ZMM Narrator’s whole trip, he has used the poetics of his words, to expand the force and meaning of his narrative. In previous photos this has been called “Metaphoric Bridge Connection(s)”.
…In fact, there are reasons to believe, that the real existence (“Good old reality”) of certain town names (or special scenery, or weather), helped Author Robert Pirsig, to originally set-up the ordering of his chapters and corresponding topics.
…Now here, in Author Robert Pirsig’s “Wine Country”, we notice how Mr. Pirsig works-in the poetics of Town Names, along US-101 from Ukiah, CA to San Francisco, CA, such as => Hopland (Says to me “Hope-land”), Cloverdale (Says a Rich, Moist, Fertile, Full Of Clover Meadow), Petaluma (Says Luminous, Full of Light), Novato (Says New, Novel) and Santa Rosa (Says Beauty & Fragrance of Roses, plus purity of a Religious Saint.) etc.

Now, To Make The Point =>
…Contrast the above 4 town names with the less poetic town names that Mr. Pirsig did NOT used, such as => El Robo, Pieta, Preston, Geyseville, Litton, Simi, Healdsburg, Grant, Windsor, Fulton, Cotati, Haystack, etc

…To Me, The Literary Effect Of Mr Pirsig’s Town Names =>
…Hopland, Cloverdale, Petaluma, Santa Rosa, raise aspirations for light, sunshine, meadow, rich, moist, fertile, full of optimism, and much hope for the future.
…Which is clearly the mood intended in Pirsig’s final entire final chapter, and most especially his final 32 paragraphs.
…These are the paragraphs, in which these real town names, in this very area California help contribute, in just 4 town names, a delightful, but factual, closure to Mr, Pirsig’s book!!
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As We Pass Through Coastal Northern California Wine Country, The Freeway Becomes Wider and Wider.

…Standing On The Rt-12 Overpass Bridge And Looking Southeast, We See More Of Santa Rosa, CA, And A View Of US-101, An Intensely Busy Highway.

[ “ …The engine … drones on and on in its continuing oblivion to everything but its own internal forces. We pass through Asti and Santa Rosa, and …. ” ] (Cont Next)

Overpass bridge, Rt-12 intersection with US-101, Santa Rosa, CA.

NOTE CONT FROM 2ND PRVIOUS PHOTO:
…Now that we are suddenly aware that we are back into ~high population, we remember the ZMM Narrator’s =>.
…“ …lonely people. It’s paradoxical that where people are the most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities in the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest. “
…AND we can’t help but notice the “Technology” in the /\ Above /\ Photo, leading us to remember the ZMM Narrator’s =>
…“Technology is blamed for a lot of this loneliness, since the loneliness is certainly associated with the newer technological devices—TV, jets, freeways and so on—
…But I hope it’s been made plain that the real evil isn’t the objects of technology but the tendency of technology to isolate people into lonely attitudes of objectivity. It’s the objectivity, the dualistic way of looking at things underlying technology, that produces the evil. That’s why I went to so much trouble to show how technology could be used to destroy the evil. A person who knows how to fix motorcycles—with Quality—is less likely to run short of friends than one who doesn’t. And they aren’t going to see him as some kind of object either. Quality destroys objectivity every time. *************************

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In The Distance Beyond The Irrigated Fields, We See Petaluma.

…“ …. and Petaluma, …. ” (Cont Next)

As seen from US-101, Petaluma, CA.

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Looking Back North Along US-101, Where We Just Came From.

…[ “ …. and Petaluma, …. ” ] (Cont Next)

Where freeway goes by Petaluma, CA.

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At The Left, You See Hills. These Show That The US-101 Freeway, As It Goes By The Eastern Edge Of Novato, CA, Is “Going-Up-And-Over-The-Hump” Of A Mountain Range, Just Before It Descens Down Into The Valley Of San Francisco Bay.

… “ …. and Novato, …. ” (Cont Next)

Novato , CA.
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From Higher Up In The Hills Of the North San Francisco Peninsula, We Can See A View Of San Pablo Bay.

…“ …. and soon by the road are houses and boats and the water of the Bay. …. ” (Cont Next)

Where US-101 goes by Sausalito, CA.
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From US-101 Running Along A Steep Hillside Of The North San Francisco Peninsula, We Can See Another View Of San Pablo Bay.

…In The Distance, The Bay Bridge To Oakland, CA Can Be Seen. The San Francisco Bay, Officially Is Beyond The Bridge To Oakland.

…“Trials never end, of course. Unhappiness and misfortune are bound to occur as long as people live, but there is a feeling now, that was not here before, and is not just on the surface of things, …. ” (Cont Next)

Marin City, CA.
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Commanding Views Are Now Found at the Once Fortified Gun Embankments, High Over The Entrance To San Francisco Harbor.

…[ …“Trials never end, of course. Unhappiness and misfortune are bound to occur as long as people live, but there is a feeling now, that was not here before, and is not just on the surface of things, …. ” “ ]
…but penetrates all the way through: …. ” (Cont Next)

Just North of the Golden Gate Bridge, at Fort Baker located on the Southern Tip of the North San Francisco Peninsula, Sausalito, CA.

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On The Approach Ramp Of The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco Harbor.

…[ “but there is a feeling now, that was not here before, and is not just on the surface of things, …. but penetrates all the way through: …. ” ]
…“We’ve won it. It’s going to get better now. You can sort of tell these things. “
…End Chapter. 32 & End of ZMM Book.

Next Photo: A ZMM Passage from the “Afterword”, Bantam Paperback Edition.)

Southern Tip of the North San Francisco Peninsula, Golden Gate Bridge, Sausalito, CA.
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Please Be Aware That Henry Gurr’s Following A) & C) Google Earth Projects Are Completed, And Ready To View As Follows =>
…INSTRUCTIONS: For best enjoyment of these below 3D Google Earth Views, AND for maximum understanding at each Blue Pinpoint, you should 1) Have the ZMM Route photos you are looking at, AND CONCURRENTLY 2) Have either of the Blue Links below => on a separate Computer, or Cell Phone screen.
…You will find additional specific instructions in each of the Google Earth Projects.

…A) GoogleEarth 3D Viewing Of A “Mountain Climbing Route of Chris and the Narrator, In The Gallatin National Forest (GNF) South of Bozeman, MT. This Route Fits Mountain Climb Narrative, In The Book Zen and the Art Or Motorcycle Maintenance (ZMM) by Robert Pirsig.”
…INSTRUCTIONS: AFTER This Page Comes Up => Please Scroll Down To And Read BOTH ABOVE and BELOW THE FOLLOWING WORDS =>

If You Don't Have The Resources Or Time To Climb The Trail, Or Even Drive There!
… FROM YOUR COMPUTER (WITH A FAIRLY FAST INTERNET), YOU CAN GOOGLE-EARTH, CLICKDRAG VIEW THE ENTIRE => "N+C Hypothetical Climbing Trail". (Also, you will see the needed Google Earth Link.)

…B) GoogleEarth 3D Viewing Of ZMM Book Route Along Montana & Wyoming’s Beartooth Highway From => ZMM Town Of Laurel, MT To Highest Parts Of The Beartooth Plateau (~11,000 ft Elevation). And then To East Gate Of Yellowstone National Park, Go By YNP’s Mammoth Hot Springs Calcite Formations, And Then To ZMM Town Of Gardener, MT.
…ATTENTION: This Is A JUST STARTED NEW Google Earth Project, And As Yet Has NO CONTENT. If you want me to hurry up and get some content here, please send email to HenrySGurr@gmail.com
This Currently Has No Content, But Will Be Ready For Viewing ASAP.

…C) GoogleEarth 3D Viewing of “ZMM Route” => Starting this WayPt = 453w seen in The /\ Above /\ Photo. And then continuing
Along the Mountainous California Coast To > Mendocino, CA. Then Inland To Ukiah, CA. And Then Via US-101 > San Francisco. Click Here.
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In ZMM Afterword.

…"A thousand memories of Chris will always be at hand, of course, but not a destructive clinging to some material entity that can never be here again. We’re in Sweden now, the home of my mother’s ancestors, and I’m working on a second book which is a sequel to this one.
…Nell [Pirsig's young daughter] teaches aspects of parenthood never understood before. If she cries or makes a mess or decides to be contrary (and these are relatively rare), it doesn’t bother. There is always Chris’s silence to compare it to. What is seen now so much more clearly is that although the names keep changing and the bodies keep changing, the larger pattern that holds us all together goes on and on. In terms of this larger pattern the lines at the end of this book still stand. We have won it. Things are better now. You can sort of tell these things."

Photo Of A Deer In Santa Clara County Park, In Low Mountains East Of Freemont, CA.
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Saturday, July 20, 2024: … It’s Too Good To Skip, So Don’t Miss Seeing This Unique Mail Box, Mounted On An Earthmover Backhoe Bucket!
…This Earthmover Backhoe Bucket Nicely Emphasizes The “WE ROCK” Company’s Rock Delivery & Earthmoving Equipment & Abilities!!!

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

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