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

Jul 8, 2006

June 30

Filed in Nevada 2006

As I left at dawn and got on the interstate, I played tag with a long freight train. I turned off for the last NV marker in this section, and there it was again. But it had left by the time I found the marker, which was in a lovely spot beside the dammed river. You can see the dam from the freeway, but I didn’t go up there due to time restraints and lack of asphalt.

The rest of the pictures are from rest areas in the Sierra Nevada. I was a little surprised by the emigrant gap/California marker one. I had been there on my combo wedding/honeymoon ride back in ‘97 and had memories of it being on Donner Summit. Apparently not. It still tickles me because I’m an emigrant. I guess it was my first ever American historical marker, too.

Got back around 1, having contrived to hit Sacto in the morning commute and the Bay Area in the lunchtime crazies. There was a line coming down from the Sierras where it went from peaceful to a huge wave of
frustration/aggression/unhappiness. I saw more cars in those few hours than I did in the entire previous 12 days. Quite the eye-opener. I need to move away from the Bay Area.

end of part 1