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?

Monday, January 29, 2018

KLIM "LATITUDE" THREE (OR FOUR?) SEASON RIDING JACKET

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Seasonal Affective Disorder be damned! The new Klim Latitude Jacket arrived on the perfect January day. Four or ...

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Wednesday, January 24, 2018

MORNING AT THE DAVENPORT ROADHOUSE AND INN

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Cup o’ joe on the veranda – turn of the LAST century style The Davenport Inn and Roadhouse is located in an early 1900s brick buil...

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Tuesday, January 23, 2018

AN EVENING AT THE DAVENPORT ROADHOUSE AND INN

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Everything thing in life relates in one way or another to a scene from what movie? A great saloon and dinner hous...

Monday, January 22, 2018

WINTER’S RIDE TO DAVENPORT

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…Make that “Winter’s Drive…” Slicing along the Pacific Coast Highway in fifty-one degree rainy weather on a motorcycle is the stuff ...

Wednesday, December 27, 2017

2017: THE CHURCH OF THE OPEN ROAD’S YEAR IN REVIEW

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Sunsets are good. If you're really into this, click on any picture to expand 'em all. So are old barns. ...

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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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