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, March 12, 2018

REBUILDING THE BMW

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Something I’m quite unlikely to do My first real foray into motorcycle touring came in about 1982 when, fresh off a divorce, I pur...
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Monday, March 5, 2018

VENADO

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Tracking down lost yesterdays… Venado is a spot on the map that may no longer be a spot on the road.   Once located west of Healds...
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Thursday, March 1, 2018

FEAR

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Wading into the frenzy, for a moment… I received a text message from ICE yesterday.   “Holy Crap!” I thought. “I know my surname sou...
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Thursday, February 15, 2018

PINE MOUNTAIN ROAD

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…and not making it to the other side… Pulling a bathrobe over my BVDs every morning, I step into some Birks and sneak out to pick ...
Tuesday, February 6, 2018

LIVING IN THE PAST: A TRIBUTE TO CALIFORNIA'S STATE HISTORIC PARKS

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History, like all living things, must be cared for in order to survive. - the Church of the Open Road’s second principle Whenever...
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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 ...
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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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