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?

Friday, December 28, 2012

2012: THE CHURCH OF THE OPEN ROAD’S YEAR IN REVIEW

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…in pictures Click on any picture, and SHAZAM! it expands. Third Runner Up for Picture of the Year:   The quintessential theme of...
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

BEST BURGER JOINT ANYWHERE?

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The reason God created the side of beef was so that David Alioto and his crew could hand form seven-ounce patties and grill them t...
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Friday, December 21, 2012

MY FIRST TWO-WHEELER

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“Now you own a Schwinn Bicycle!” the announcement, circa 1960, began.   Coiled into a tiny tube and tied tightly with curling ribbon, th...
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Monday, December 17, 2012

SELECTING A CYCLE

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  “Don’t trust everything you read on the Internet.” - Abraham Lincoln Returning to my old office of employ, my former secre...
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Friday, December 14, 2012

AN OPEN LETTER TO MY REPRESENTATIVE REGARDING FIREARMS

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Friday, December 14, 2012 My Dear (fill in the representative): The time has come to have a rational discussion about firearms in ...
Sunday, December 9, 2012

“WHAT IS THE GREATEST GIFT?”

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Robert Hamilton (Papa Bob) Stewart embraced ne’er-do-wells.   This I know. My first marriage was ending.   I’d been invited to a ga...
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Thursday, December 6, 2012

BROADSIDED BY MEMORIES – AND AN OLD GMC

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  Sometimes it’s a bar or two of music : a line, a lyric, a verse.   Sometimes it’s an errant fragrance carried on a gentle vesper fr...
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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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