California Inspection Station At Border Crossing Fron Oregon.
“ …. [are soon into the coastal redwood forest,] across out of Oregon into California.“(Cont.Next)
Inspection Station, California-Oregon Border.
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After the Border - Really a Mountaintop Pass - We Go Through a Long Tunnel. We Then Head Down, Down, Down.
“The traffic is so heavy we don’t have time to look up.“(Cont.Next)
Just after the mountain top tunnel, 3 mi SW from California-Oregon Border, CA
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When the Narrator and Chris Came This Way It Was Grey and Getting Cold.
“It’s turning cold and grey and we stop and put on sweaters and jackets. It’s still cold, somewhere in the low fifties, and we think winter thoughts. .. Lonely people back in town. … “(Cont.Next)
About one mile prior to Gasquet, CA.
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Back In Grants Pass: An Irrigation Ditch and General Town View.
“[Lonely people back in town.] I saw it in the supermarket and at the Laundromat and when we checked out from the motel.“
South Business District, Grants Pass, OR.
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Parked Here among the Giant Redwoods, Is Where the Narrator Probably Saw Pickup Campers.
“ [Winter thoughts and lonely people.] These pickup campers through the redwoods, full of lonely retired people looking at trees on their way to look at the ocean.“(Cont.Next)
Pull-off & parking area, Redwood Forest, Simpson Reed Grove, Jedediah Smith State Park, twelve mi East of Crescent City, CA. This Redwood Grove is truly a fantastic experience, but despite the fact that the road goes straight through it, the Narrator does not mention it! Why? He does mention redwoods later on, but does not mention stopping in them, for Chris’s exploration, as in the Douglas Fir forests. Considering the Narrator’s enthusiasm for mountain climbing/hiking, even here in cold, rainy conditions, why don’t they explore here? The exercise could “warm up the bones” from the constant chilling breeze of motion on a cycle. Clearly both Chris and the Narrator badly need some release from developing depression and emotional (mental) impasse. Is he just “making a run” for San Francisco? But doing so seems to just to cause more anguish and bad decisions For example, after they get to the ocean coast, they ride on and on and on in the dark and cold rain. This happens despite acknowledged fatigue, and chills, and despite the clearly dangerous highways. All the stress ends up precipitating a crisis with Chris.
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Spots of Sunlight Fall On Single Trees Standing In the Darkness Produced By The Tree’s Society Called a Forest.
“You catch it in the first fraction of a glance from a new face—that searching look—..then it’s gone. .. We see much more of this loneliness now. “(Cont.Next)
Entrance, Redwood Forest, Simpson Reed Grove, CA. To fully appreciate the darkness and moisture of the forest, I recommend that you view this image with lights near your computer, turned off.
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A View of an Intensely Busy Highways From A Likewise Intensely Busy Overpass Bridge.
[Winter thoughts and 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. “(Cont.Next)
Where Rt116 crosses Rt101, Santa Rosa, CA.
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There Is Less Loneliness Back In Montana.
[Winter thoughts and lonely people, cont.]“[It’s paradoxical … ] Back where people were so spread out in western Oregon and Idaho and Montana and the Dakotas you’d think the loneliness would have been greater, but we didn’t see it so much.“(Cont.Next)
Yellowstone National Park, MT. Photo shows a view along the ZMM Route on the road along the North edge of Yellowstone National Park.
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A Lonely Path Into the Redwood Forest.
[Paradox: lonely in crowded cities, verses not lonely in low populated areas.] “The explanation I suppose, is that the physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It’s psychic distance, and in Montana and Idaho the physical distances are big but the psychic distances between people are small, and here it’s reversed.“(Cont.Next)
Pull-off, Redwood Forest, Simpson Reed Grove, CA.
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What Is It About Us 20th Century “Moderns” That Makes Us Want This Versus the Qualities Sponsored By Mother Nature Herself?
“It’s the primary America we’re in. It hit the night before last in Prineville Junction and it’s been with us ever since. There’s this primary America of freeways and jet flights and TV and movie spectaculars. And people caught up in this primary America seem to go through huge portions of their lives without much consciousness of what’s immediately around them. The media have convinced them that what’s right around them is unimportant. And that’s why they’re lonely. You see it in their faces. First the little flicker of searching, and then when they look at you, you’re just a kind of an object. You don’t count. You’re not what they’re looking for. You’re not on TV.“(Cont.Next)
Rt97 South of Redmond, OR.
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Open Space & Nature. Here The Narrator Brings To Our Mind the Wide Open Countryside You Have Seen In My Photos. What a Contrast To the Narrator’s “Primary America“!
“But in the secondary America we’ve been through, of back roads, and Chinaman’s ditches, and Appaloosa horses, and sweeping mountain ranges, and meditative thoughts, and kids with pinecones and bumblebees and open sky above us mile after mile after mile, all through that, what was real, what was around us dominated. And so there wasn’t much feeling of loneliness. “(Cont.Next)
A Mountain Valley just East of Three mi prior to Keys Summit Pass, OR.
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What Was It Like For People When this Tree Was Living?.
“[But in the secondary America we’ve been through,] …. That’s the way it must have been a hundred or two hundred years ago. Hardly any people and hardly any loneliness. I’m undoubtedly over-generalizing, but if the proper qualifications were introduced it would be true.“(Cont.Next)
Pull-off, Redwood Forest, Simpson Reed Grove, CA.
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A View of an Intensely Busy Highway From A Similarly Busy Overpass Bridge.
“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 …. “(Cont.Next)
Where Rt116 crosses Rt101, Santa Rosa, CA.
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The Blue Sky “Isolates” the Dark Green.
“ … 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. “(Cont.Next)
Pull-off, Redwood Forest, Simpson Reed Grove, CA.
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A Seed Sprouted On a Dead Log Long Ago, and Made the Best of It. As the Log Rotted-Out From Underneath, the Small Tree’s Roots Reached Longer and Longer Into the Ground. Now This Tree Shines In the Sunlight For All the World To See! True Tenacity!
“Or if he takes whatever dull job he’s stuck with—and they are all, sooner or later, dull—and, just to keep himself amused, starts to look for options of Quality, and secretly pursues these options, just for their own sake, thus making an art out of what he is doing, he’s likely to discover that he becomes a much more interesting person …. “(Cont.Next)
Pull-off, Redwood Forest, Simpson Reed Grove, CA.
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Looking Up, Up, the Giant Trees Reach for the Sky. A Church In the Wilderness.
“[ …. he’s likely to discover that he becomes a much more interesting person] and much less of an object to the people around him because his Quality decisions change him too. And not only the job and him, but others too because the Quality tends to fan out like waves.“(Cont.Next)
Pull-off, Redwood Forest, Simpson Reed Grove, CA.
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The Tree, Ever So Straight. Note Tiny Spot Of Skylight, Straight Up
“The Quality job he didn’t think anyone was going to see is seen, and the person who sees it feels a little better because of it, and is likely to pass that feeling on to others, ….“(Cont.Next)
Pull-off, Redwood Forest, Simpson Reed Grove, CA.
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A Spot of Sunlight Reveals the Bark of An Individual Tree.
“ …. and in that way the Quality tends to keep on going. .. My personal feeling is that this is how any further improvement of the world will be done: by individuals making Quality decisions and that’s all. “(Cont.Next)
Pull-off, Redwood Forest, Simpson Reed Grove, CA.
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