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, June 23, 2015

THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY

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For a while , I owned a Kawasaki KLR 650. Knobby tires, high seat, raised pipe, large fuel tank: the Kawi would go for days on back-c...

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Saturday, June 20, 2015

ON HAVING THE DISCUSSION

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Thoughts on addressing a woeful status quo… Years ago , I worked as a school principal in a rural California county. Although the ...

Monday, June 1, 2015

Long-Term Thinking for a Short-Sighted World – A Review

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First off, the recommendation: Buy three (3) copies of this book. Seriously. Why? Because you’re going to want...

Sunday, May 3, 2015

SAIGON PLUS 40

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Where have all the flowers gone? With the sadness that accompanies loss and the passage of time, the Church of the Open Road looks...

Friday, April 17, 2015

LESSONS FROM THE SIDE OF THE ROAD

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Tonopah, Death Valley, Bridgeport Loop Tour An epilogue Two great pleasures of taking to the open road are the thing...

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Thursday, April 16, 2015

A DRY SPRING IN DEATH VALLEY

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The Tonopah, Death Valley and Bridgeport Loop Tour – Stage 3 I’d been to Death Valley decades ago, when I was a kid, but never d...

Monday, April 13, 2015

TRACKING THE T & T

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The Tonopah, Death Valley and Bridgeport Loop Tour: Stage 2 Railroads are fascinating constructs. They appear as solid and per...

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Bumpa: 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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