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, November 11, 2016

THE TRIUMPH LT AND LOSING MY SHIRT

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…a good news story… Ukiah, California is an old-school town and in the heart of downtown Ukiah stands MacNab’s, an ...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

SMELLIN’ THE BARN

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Day Four and Five of the Bend, Oregon   October Fogged-Out Ride (Next time we’ll do this in September!) Rider magazine contri...
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Thursday, October 20, 2016

OBSIDIAN RIDE

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Day Two and Three of the Bend, Oregon   October Fogged-Out Ride (Next time we’ll do this in September!) I live on the easter...
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Sunday, October 16, 2016

THREE CONVERSATIONS ON A LAY OVER NIGHT IN DUNSMUIR

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Day One of the Bend, Oregon October Fogged-Out Ride (Next time we’ll do this in September!) Dunsmuir, California is a speck on t...
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Saturday, October 1, 2016

“A Full Life – Reflections at Ninety,” by Jimmy Carter

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Off the sale table , I picked up a copy of President Carter’s latest memoir.   Unlike many of his previous works, reading through “A Full...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016

CONFESSIONS OF A NON-FITNESS GUY (AND HIS BICYCLE)

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New life comes from the old Peugeot X-rays of my troubled right knee show the doctor that it isn’t quite time yet.   “Tone up the mu...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2016

HULL MOUNTAIN

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high point of my day Seventy-five miles to the east , Mount Lassen rose in tiny blue splendor over the gray, smoggy haze of the Nor...
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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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