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, May 31, 2016

FREIGHT

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At about age four , Santa gave my brother and me trains for Christmas.   They were S-gauge Gilbert American Flyers: bigg...
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Saturday, May 28, 2016

COFFEE RUN

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More on shopping locally, thirty-five miles from home I live in a place where there are no bad roads.   Even the ...
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Sunday, May 22, 2016

THE SONG MY SAMSUNGS SING

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  A Church of the Open Road Mini-Memoir (and this one’s a classic) About a year ago , when we moved into our new-to-us house, a...
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Friday, May 20, 2016

A VISIT TO THE WHITMAN MISSION AND…

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  …the lies I told my students Early in my teaching career , I came up with the idea of using read-aloud time with students to p...
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Friday, May 13, 2016

490 BUCKS LATER

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…a tale of impatience and its resultant stupidity… The US 101 freeway through Santa Rosa was an afterthought.   The city was built up...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2016

THE TRIUMPH THUNDERBIRD – THREE MONTHS IN

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Learning to relax in comfort The wooden drawer pull on the antique desk had slipped free of its screw.   In order t...
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Thursday, April 14, 2016

A FEW QUICK LESSONS FROM A SMALL TOWN BOY IN THE BIG CITY

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Last week , I visited New York City for only the second time and I could never rid myself of the perception that I was somehow a latter...
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Monday, April 11, 2016

Suggested Reading: “The Oregon Trail – a New American Journey”

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by Rinker Buck (Simon and Schuster, 2015. $28.) Embedded deep within every Church of the Open Roader is an urge to see new places, co...
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Monday, February 29, 2016

THE ENDURING AVENUE OF THE GIANTS

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…make that “endearing…” The Avenue of the Giants was once US 101, winding through Humboldt County’s majestic and humbling redwoods.   N...
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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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