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?

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

DIGGING HOLES

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A LOVED ONE IS DIGGING A HOLE and won’t stop digging. The hole is deep and getting deeper; dark and getting darker; lonely and getting lone...
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Thursday, January 26, 2012

TOPOMAPSAPP.COM – PRODUCT REVIEW

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A TINY DIRT ROAD leads close to the point on the earth’s surface where California, Nevada and Oregon all come together. “The rest we’ll hav...
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Sunday, January 22, 2012

MAURICE? MEET MARTIN

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Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second. - Maurice Ravel IT’S A MONDAY, January 16, and we’re all supposed to be cel...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

HISTORIC SITES IN MY OWN BACK YARD: ONE-ROOM SCHOOLHOUSES

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TOOLING AROUND on a mild January afternoon, I came across a community hall that, in an earlier life, served as a one-room schoolhouse in Wes...
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Saturday, January 14, 2012

HELD “CLASSIC” RIDING GLOVES – PRODUCT REVIEW

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PLAYING SANTA FOR MYSELF this most recent holiday season, I violated at least two rules I usually hold dear: A) I purchased something on-li...
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Thursday, January 12, 2012

THE BUSINESS WITH TWO BOTTOM LINES

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A visit to Moto International in Seattle, Washington B 1200 Sport SIX OR EIGHT MONTHS AGO, the Moto Guzzi bug bit me. I’d ridden a beau...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

BUYING FROM THE LOCAL GUY? EATING WITH THE LOCAL GUY!

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TUCKED IN BEHIND A STARBUCKS and a Subway in the little strip mall adjacent to our neighborhood is one of those gems hidden because we’re to...
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

A JANUARY RIDE THROUGH THE GOLD COUNTRY

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Perhaps the only conceivable upside to climate change… MANY INDEPENDENT SCIENTISTS believe fervently that changes in weather patterns over ...
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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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