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?

Thursday, January 31, 2013

HELPING OUR CHILDREN TO A RICH PUBLIC EDUCATION

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Every kid is an oddball kid. As the United States progresses toward the middle of the twenty-first century, we are finding ourselve...
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Thursday, January 24, 2013

“THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY” AND MY TWO BROTHERS

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I have two brothers .   The biological one is a hard working man.   A college educated veteran, his life’s work has been independen...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

CIGAR, ANYONE?

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The best cigar merchants are those staffed by folks older that I.   At sixty, that number is dwindling.   I don’t want the proprietor to...
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Saturday, January 19, 2013

CIRCUMNAVIGATING CALIFORNIA’S SUTTER BUTTES

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It was my night to cook .   But it had been two-and-a-half years since my last “annual winter” motorcycle sojourn around the scenic and my...
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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

SCHUBERTH C-3 HELMET – NICE LID!

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Annually, we visit Seattle if for no other reason than to say things will improve in the coming year – specifically if we focus ...
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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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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