The Church of the Open Road Press

Narratives about motorcycling on Northern California's back roads; Reflections on the history and geography of the North State; Memoirs and early recollections of youthful visits to towns and forests and mountaintops. Also middle-of-the-road takes on current issues in politics and education. Middle of the road? Isn't that dangerous?

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

THE STUDY OF GEOGRAPHY FROM A MOTORCYCLE SEAT

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Geography is the study of man and land and the interrelationships between them. Professor David W. Lantis CSU, Chico 1971 ONE CANNOT SEPARA...
Saturday, May 21, 2011

UNCLE WILBUR

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AS KIDS, WE VISITED BUCKS LAKE and stayed in the Greg’s family’s chalet. Greg was a neighbor kid. I hadn’t been to the cabin in forty year...
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Friday, May 20, 2011

TIME TRAVEL ON THE CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR

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CALIFORNIA STATE ROUTE 70 (FEATHER RIVER CANYON) [2005] POSITIONED JUST SO, with the BMW behind me, I wait for the UP freight to wind down...
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Thursday, May 19, 2011

MEMORIAL DAY - 2008

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THE LAST FULL MEASURE A FEW YEARS BACK, my wife and I made our annual visit to the state fair, and having not been to a rodeo in our twenty...
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Saturday, May 14, 2011

YUBA RIVER RESPITE – DOWNIEVILLE AND CAL-IDA CITY

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A GRAND THING ABOUT SPRING is that it rolls itself out slowly. About a month back, the dogwood in my side yard bloomed and faded. The gras...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011

THOUGHTS WHILE ON A FAVORITE RIDE

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  California State Route 20, east of Nevada City A FAVORITE RIDE is east on Interstate 80 and back on California 20 through Nevada City, th...
Monday, May 9, 2011

REGARDING OUR TENDENCY TO HURRY SO

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A sprint to a finish line. A finish line, that, with every fevered step, moves agonizingly further way. Doggedly we run, terrif...
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

USING FACEBOOK TO CHANGE MINDS

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I invite each of you to sit down in front of your own television set when your station goes on the air and stay there, for a day, without a ...
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Friday, April 29, 2011

ELK, CALIFORNIA - STATE ROUTE 1

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YOU CAN FIND OUT A BIT about the towns you ride through by just scratching around. Every place has history. Every place . Every place als...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

MORE ABOUT THAT “OTHER WOMAN” – RIDING THE ‘08 MOTO GUZZI BREVA

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I TOOK A TEST RIDE on the 2008 Moto Guzzi Breva Sport today. The good folks at Elk Grove Powersports were kind enough to lead me on a nic...
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Maps. Some of the best stories one encounters one encounters by reading a map. A map is the framework - the outline - upon which both history and fantasy are crafted. Just as two people can witness an event and come up with entirely different recollections - each completely true, verifiable and accurate - two people can travel the same mapped route and come up with entirely different stories. But without the map, perhaps they'd have no story to tell. Some of the best anthologies in my library are stuffed in my map case.
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