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?

Saturday, October 29, 2011

FALL REFLECTIONS ON THE BEAR RIVER

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Along Drum Powerhouse Road A WONDERFUL ASPECT of living in Northern California is the fact that November can be knocking but there may sti...
Thursday, October 27, 2011

AUTUMN ALONG THE DEER CREEK HIGHWAY

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California State Route 32 ON AN UNBOOKED WEDNESDAY in October, I braved the forty-degree morning and ventured up Highway 32 in search of t...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

GOBS OF POWER?

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The fifty-seven regular season home runs didn’t matter. Bottom of the ninth. One out. Bases loaded. The most feared closer in all of bas...
Monday, October 17, 2011

ANOTHER SLEEPY DELTA DAY

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Click any picture to enlarge... I GUESS I MUST BE OVER-EAGER to see some fall colors. My last two trips to the Sierra have been busts. To...
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Saturday, October 15, 2011

TWO GUZZI CONVERSATIONS

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Wow! That’s a real Lionel! My response to a neighbor kid’s haul one Christmas morning, circa 1959 “OOOH MAN! A Guzzi.” The man was in ...
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Friday, October 14, 2011

FRIDAYS WITH ARIA: BOWMAN LAKE ROAD

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click to enlarge A PLEASANT FRIDAY and after a breakfast meeting in Nevada City, I chose not to drive straight home. Figured a jaunt up S...
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Monday, October 10, 2011

GREETINGS ONE-DIMENSIONAL CITIZEN!

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And welcome to your life. TIMES ARE TOUGH and you’re in a hurry so we’ve decided to make education more efficient and affordable for you. ...
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Friday, October 7, 2011

AN OPEN LETTER TO MR. HANK WILLIAMS, JR.

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from the Church of the Open Road Dear Mr. Williams, First, allow me to provide for you the text of the First Amendment to the United Sta...
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Thursday, October 6, 2011

HELD “AIR STREAM” TOURING GLOVES - PRODUCT REVIEW

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IN THE BACK OF MY MIND, I knew it was bound to happen. Every day brings one closer to a day of reckoning. And mine was upon me. I could t...
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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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