This is What the Narrator May Have Seen As He Sat On His “Omar Kyam Rock”. The Poem Delays (Procrastination?) The Narrator’s Start on the Gumptionology Chautauqua.
“I sit on an Omar Khayyàm rock contemplating the semidesert and feel not bad. ..
. . . And this first Summer month that brings the Rose . . . oh . . . now it comes back. . . .

Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say ,
Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?
And this first Summer month that brings the Rose ,
Shall take Jamshyd and Kaikobad away.
And so on and so forth . . .

Let’s get off Omar and onto the Chautauqua. Omar’s solution is just to sit around and guzzle the wine and feel so bad that time is passing and the Chautauqua looks good to me by comparison. Particularly today’s Chautauqua, which is about gumption.“(Cont.Next)
Ten mi East of Baker, OR. The Narrator even constructively uses this temporary setback (delay) to rest and enjoy the scenery. The scene evokes a thoughtful attentive mood in the Narrator. The same is evoked in us as we read. Also this break from road travel, provides time for the Narrator to fetch memory-and finish for us, the opening Quatrain of The “Rubàiyat of Omar Khayyàm”. Gumption indeed! Ormar Khayyàm’s 12 th Century Persian Verses evidently have a poetic connection to Gumption. Can anyone hazard a guess what this might be? Also, what is the ZMM significance of the Blooming Wild Rose?
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Standing at the Edge or New Rt86, We See One of the Few Places Where the Narrator Could Have Stopped On a Hill-Well-Above-a-Stream-With-Summertime Water.
“I see Chris coming back up the hill now. His expression looks happy. .. I like the word "gumption" because it’s so homely and so forlorn and so out of style it looks as if it needs a friend and isn’t likely to reject anyone who comes along. It’s an old Scottish word, once used a lot by pioneers, but which, like "kin," seems to have all but dropped out of use. I like it also because it describes exactly what happens to someone who connects with Quality. He gets filled with gumption. .. The Greeks called it enthousiasmos, the root of "enthusiasm." which means literally "filled with theos," or God, or Quality. See how that fits? .. A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit around dissipating and stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his own awareness, watching to see what’s up the track and meeting it when it comes. That’s gumption. .. Chris arrives and says, "I’m feeling better now." .. "Good," I say. We pack up the soap and toilet paper and put the towel and wet underwear where they won’t get other things damp and …. “(Cont.Next)
Desert Stream and Land Slide Area near Richland, OR. A nearby sign explained the Sept 1984 landslide seen at right above the water (note bare earth of the exposed "slide-downs"). As you see, this huge dirt pile blocked the stream. This same dirt pile also covered up the old Rt86 here. To see a portion of old Rt86, click on the photo to get largest picture. Old Rt86 is the gravel road segment at far right. The continuation old Rt86 is seen as a break in the sage 1/2 way up from the water. The blocked road is further to the right of the old road segment seen at extreme right. This photo shows that the road the Narrator followed was gravel and curvy with no guard rail! It would take some study to see if those are volcanic rocks seen in the opposite canyon walls and capping the hill top. If so, these are very likely part the Columbia River Basalts. According to my maps of these lava flows, we have been moving along inside southern edge of the lava fields and will soon leave them behind. But plenty of other forms of volcanic activity lie ahead.
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Back On the Road, We See Irrigated Fields and Distant Mountains As We Learn About Gumption.
“ …. 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, OR.
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You Need Gumption To Build and Repair Fences In the Hot Oregon Sun!
“If you’re going to repair a motorcycle, an adequate supply of gumption is the first and most important tool. If you haven’t got that you might as well gather up all the other tools and put them away, because they won’t do you any good. .. Gumption is the psychic gasoline that keeps the whole thing going. If you haven’t got it there’s no way the motorcycle can possibly be fixed. But if you have got it and know how to keep it there’s absolutely no way in this whole world that motorcycle can keep from getting fixed. It’s bound to happen. Therefore the thing that must be monitored at all times and preserved before anything else is the gumption. .. This paramount importance of gumption solves a problem of format of this Chautauqua. The problem has been how to get off the generalities. If the Chautauqua gets into the actual details of fixing one individual machine the chances are overwhelming that it won’t be your make and model and the information will be not only useless but dangerous, since information that fixes one model can sometimes wreck another. “(Cont.Next)
Ten mi East of Baker, OR.
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You Need Gumption To Eek a Living From This Rough Country!
“For detailed information of an objective sort, a separate shop manual for the specific make and model of machine must be used. In addition, a general shop manual such as Audel’s Automotive Guide fills in the gaps. .. .But there’s another kind of detail that no shop manual goes into but that is common to all machines and can be given here. This is the detail of the Quality relationship, the gumption relationship, between the machine and the mechanic, which is just as intricate as the machine itself. Throughout the process of fixing the machine things always come up, low-quality things, from a dusted knuckle to an accidentally ruined "irreplaceable" assembly. These drain off gumption, destroy enthusiasm and leave you so discouraged you want to forget the whole business. I call these things "gumption traps.“(Cont.Next)
Ten mi East of Baker, OR.
New Topic: Ahead, at Baker, the ZMM Route crosses The The Oregon National Historic Trail. This is the route, ~ 1843 to ~1855, that ox powered covered wagons followed on their way from Missouri to the rich lands of Western Oregon. The Oregon Trail in this region is now approximately followed by both US Route 30 and Interstate I-84 from Pocatello ID to Portland OR.
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In Oregon, We Cross the Tracks of The Historical Oregon Trail As The ZMM Gumption Chautauqua Continues. It Required Plenty of Gumption in Man, Woman, Child, and Animal To Survive On The Oregon Trail In This Rough Country!
“There are hundreds of different kinds of gumption traps, maybe thousands, maybe millions. I have no way of knowing how many I don’t know. I know it seems as though I’ve stumbled into every kind of gumption trap imaginable. What keeps me from thinking I’ve hit them all is that with every job I discover more. Motorcycle maintenance gets frustrating. Angering. Infuriating. That’s what makes it interesting.“(Cont.Next)
Just South of the “Flag Staff Hill”, Three mi East of Baker, OR. Unmentioned in ZMM, the ZMM highway Rt86 to Baker OR, crosses the “ruts” of the Historic Oregon Trail. Although the Oregon Trail “ruts” are in some places deeply eroded gullies big enough to hide a car, the “ruts” show in above photo, are a barely perceptible “track” of somewhat lower sage. In this photo, the track lines up with the two brown marker stakes to the left of photo center. You can make out a slightly lower “channel” in the sage heading into the higher bushes above the more distant brown stake. Up the hill to the right is the summit of Flag Staff Hill and the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, operated by the U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management. More photos of this Oregon Trail Center will eventually be in my Personal Experiences Album and/or my Panoramas Album. Those pioneers that traveled the Oregon Trail to arrive here, surely would have offered good examples for these ZMM Chautauquas on Gumption!!
NOTE: The Oregon Trail in this region is now approximately followed by both US Route 30 and Interstate I-84 from Pocatello ID to Portland OR.
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Hill Top View of New and Historic Roads To An Oregon Valley & Town.
“The map before me says the town of Baker is soon ahead. I see we’re in better agricultural land now. More rain here. .. What I have in mind now is a catalog of "Gumption Traps I Have Known." I want to start a whole new academic field, gumptionology, in which these traps are sorted, classified, structured into hierarchies and interrelated for the edification of future generations and the benefit of all mankind. .. Gumptionology 101—An examination of affective, cognitive and psychomotor blocks in the perception of Quality relationships—3 cr,Vll,MWF. I’d like to see that in a college catalog somewhere. .. In traditional maintenance gumption is considered something you’re born with or have acquired as a result of good upbringing. It’s a fixed commodity. From the lack of information about how one acquires this gumption one might assume that a person without any gumption is a hopeless case.“(Cont.Next)
Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, Flagstaff Hill, 3 mi East of Baker, OR. Although the marks of the Historic Oregon Trail can not be seen in this photo, it came in the lowest area between the hillside in the right foreground and the opposite mountain ridge. So see topomap marking the trail: Detour in new browser frame for http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=44.808059&lon=-117.72902 Since this map does not mark the continuation of this trail into the valley, there must have been many different routes of descent. A likely route would have been by the O. T. Memorial Marker Monument, which in above photo, is in the level light brown bare parking area by highway. From there the ox wagons would have proceeded somewhat to this side of the modern highway and down the broad hill-slope to the right.
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Discussing the Virtues of Gumption Traps in a Grassy Valley of Northeastern Oregon.
“In nondualistic maintenance gumption isn’t a fixed commodity. It’s variable, a reservoir of good spirits that can be added to or subtracted from. Since it’s a result of the perception of Quality, a gumption trap, consequently, can be defined as anything that causes one to lose sight of Quality, and thus lose one’s enthusiasm for what one is doing. As one might guess from a definition as broad as this, the field is enormous and only a beginning sketch can be attempted here. .. As far as I can see there are two main types of gumption traps. The first type is those in which you’re thrown off the Quality track by conditions that arise from external circumstances, and I call these "setbacks." The second type is traps in which you’re thrown off the Quality track by conditions that are primarily within yourself. These I don’t have any generic name for—"hang-ups" I suppose. I’ll take up the externally caused setbacks first.“
Valley 5 mi South of Baker, OR.
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From the Fence, a Redwing Blackbird Darts Away From My Camera. The Discussion of the Virtues of Gumption Continue.
[The Narrator then covers many gumption traps, and illustrates ways to avoid them or find ways around them. After 1.5 pages he conclused with:] “But if you’ve made just a plain old dumb mistake in reassembly, some gumption can still be salvaged by the knowledge that the second disassembly and reassembly is likely to go much faster than the first one. You’ve unconsciously memorized all sorts of things you won’t have to relearn.“(Cont.Next)
Valley 5 mi South of Baker, OR.
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When Passing Through the Cooler Dooley Mountain Summit, the Narrator Takes a Break From Gumptionology To Mention the Scenery.
“From Baker the cycle has taken us up through forests. The forest road takes us through a pass …. “(Cont.Next)
Seventeen mi South of Baker, OR. After a long, difficult, detailed, “dry” lecture during travel in hot, dry, low altitude territory, the Narrator and the reader can “come up for a scenery break”. In this case, and many times ahead, the breaks coincide with travel in the cool forests of a mountain pass. Sometimes the scenery break is for gasoline or lunch in a town. It is typically two and one half pages of Chautauqua between scenery breaks.
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Looking East in the Late Afternoon Sun, We See Trees Are on the Northern Slopes, But the Southern Slopes Have None!
“ … and down through more forests … “(Cont.Next)
Eighteen mi South of Baker, OR.
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Forests Continue As We Start Down After Dooley Mountain Pass.
“ … [more forests]on the other side. “(Cont.Next)
Nineteen mi South of Baker, OR.
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I Believe The White Material is Volcanic Pumice. This is My First Encounter With This Fluffy Dust Which Seems to Dominate Central Oregon ahead.
“As we move again down the side of the mountain we see the trees thin out even more … “(Cont.Next)
Twenty two mi south of Baker, OR.
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When We Are Back Down To Hot Dry Desert, the Gumptionology Continues.
“ … until we are in desert again. .. The intermittent failure setback is next. In this the thing that is wrong becomes right all of a sudden just as you start to fix it. Electrical short circuits are often in this class. The short occurs only when the machine’s bouncing around. As soon as you stop everything’s okay. It’s almost impossible to fix it then. All you can do is try to get it to go wrong again and if it won’t, forget it.“(Cont.Next)
Some place East of Herford, OR.
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Any Gumption Traps Here?
“Intermittents become gumption traps when they fool you into thinking you’ve really got the machine fixed. It’s always a good idea on any job to wait a few hundred miles before coming to that conclusion. They’re discouraging when they crop up again and again, but when they do you’re no worse off than someone who goes to a commercial mechanic. In fact you’re better off. They’re much more of a gumption trap for the owner who has to drive his machine to the shop again and again and never get satisfaction.“(Cont.Next)
Two mi West of Hereford, OR.
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The Gumption Trap of Intermittents Require You To Look Closer.
“On your own machine you can study them over a long period of time, something a commercial mechanic can’t do, and you can just carry around the tools you think you’ll need until the intermittent happens again, and then, when it happens, stop and work on it. .. When intermittents recur, try to correlate them with other things the cycle is doing. Do the misfires, for example, occur only on bumps, only on turns, only on acceleration? Only on hot days? These correlations are clues for cause-and-effect hypotheses.“ [The Narrator then covers many tedious external gumption traps in the purchase of repair parts. He covers the virtues of making your own parts.]
Two mi West of Hereford, OR.
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Town of Unity Bathed In Orange Light of Sunset.
“We’ve come into the sage and sand of the desert and the engine’s started to sputter. I switch to the reserve gas tank and study the map. We fill up at a town called Unity and down the hot black road, through the sagebrush we go. .. Well, those were the commonest setbacks I can think of: out-of-sequence reassembly, intermittent failure and parts problems. But although setbacks are the commonest gumption traps they’re only the external cause of gumption loss. Time now to consider some of the internal gumption traps that operate at the same time. …. As the course description of gumptionology indicated, this internal part of the field can be broken down into three main types of internal gumption traps: those that block affective understanding, called "value traps"; those that block cognitive understanding, called "truth traps"; and those that block psychomotor behavior, called "muscle traps." The value traps are by far the largest and the most dangerous group. .. Of the value traps, the most widespread and pernicious is value rigidity. This is an inability to revalue what one sees because of commitment to previous values.“(Cont.Next)
Two mi East of Unity, OR. Note that Narrator in mentioning the town name, implies the sense of Unity into his Gumption discussion. Photo needed of the ZMM Gas Station or remnant thereof.
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The Warmth of Day Is Gone. Gumptionology Continues as We Head West and Up.
“ In motorcycle maintenance, you must rediscover what you do as you go. Rigid values make this impossible.“(Cont.Next)
Six mi West of Unity, OR. Like the Narrator, I too am very tired when I get to this stretch of road. I stop to take a photo of the sunset, which is my habit. As I am posing the shot, this Cyclist comes by, so I include him for “action”. Since I am stopped, I decide to rest to study ZMM, look at my maps, and write notes. I needed to review ZMM for the next sights I should be looking for and where a suitable campground might be. While doing this, the driver of a diesel pickup truck, with his wife, stop to see if I need help. Neighborly! And just like the Narrator says, this happened repeatedly in the semi desolate areas of the American West! Amazing! ! Amazing! New topic: Although both the Narrator and I departed Brownlee Campground in the morning, you can tell I have only covered about half of the Narrator’s distance by evening the same day. Why am I so slow? First off, I drive slowly (less than 40 mph) because I want to take my time to enjoy the experience. Also, I won’t miss anything related to the ZMM research. Also, I am parked by the road most of the time! I must closely reread each ZMM passage for the scenes ahead and search for the corresponding ZMM scenes. For each scene I decide to photograph, I must record the GPS data and altitude. I am also constantly writing out full notes on the scenery I am passing through, what the signs say and what I am doing and experiencing. At each stopping point I also record the distance to (and names of) nearby towns plus my car odometer reading. All this reduces my overall road speed to typically less than half that of the Narrator.
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