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?

Saturday, June 25, 2016

THE SEA RANCH CONUNDRUM

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The Sea Ranch is a several thousand-acre development of gracefully designed homes set above ocean cliffs or nested deep...
Saturday, June 18, 2016

THE INCLEMENT EUREKA, YREKA, BURNEY ADVENTURE

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“Unseasonable weather is typical this time of year.” - Dad This would be the first “tour” on the Thunderbird LT...
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Friday, June 17, 2016

WHACKIN’ WEEDS

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Escaping LA , my folks moved us to a five-and-a-half acre spread on a creek near Chico.   The back four acres were plant...
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Friday, June 3, 2016

DINNER OUT IN A SMALL TOWN

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A Church of the Open Road Report about family, food and bigger things… The restaurant is called Scopa ( http://www.scopahealdsburg...
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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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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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