Raven's Roads
Living an interesting life: the travels and musings
of motorcycling author Linda R. Moore

Jul 24, 2006

Cathedral Gorge and Bullionville

Filed in Nevada 2006

On the way up I’d seen something for “Miller Point” and took a break there. It was quite a surprise. In Rachel, I’d been recommended to see Cathedral Gorge, and Miller Point was an access point for a fabulous landscape of salmon-coloured formations like stalagmites and strips of geological candy-rock. I spent a happy hour pottering around there.

Just south was a historical marker for Bullionville (gee, guess what they hauled there?) I looked up and spotted a mysterious little path leading to an ancient burial ground. Well, not really. It was, however, a neat little old cemetery that used to belong to Bullionville. Most of the graves are unmarked; the preservationists got to it too late to save
most of the wooden grave markers.

I also stopped by the visitor centre for the state park and chatted to the ranger, who gave me some historical marker hints and allowed me to a) not go nuts looking for one that was missing and b) find one that I
hadn’t found before.

After that, I was just truckin’…heading towards Vegas. I crossed the ugliest road of my trip, highway 168–it was like crossing a sandpit mixed with a construction site, and windy to boot–and collapsed, dripping sweat and horribly overheated, in Glendale where I shared my burger and shake with roughly 20 flies: totally gross. If I’d ridden 10
more miles I could’ve stayed somewhere nice, but not to worry.

I started to have this inkling that I wouldn’t be spending much time snarfing in the Vegas area: this was a whole different degree of heat.