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?

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

DRIVING THROUGH A LOST PARADISE

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No ‘Shot of the Day’ Today In general,  I’m not a lookie-loo.  I may drop in on a realtor’s open house or sneak by a dealership to chec...
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Friday, May 24, 2019

REBIRTH OF THE OLD TUBA

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Best Music in Oakland is a business of note I’ll make this quick  as most readers prefer exhaust notes to those from brass instruments....
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Monday, April 29, 2019

DINING DESTINATION IN LAKE COUNTY, CA

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Upper Lake’s Blue Wing Saloon file photo from an earlier lunch visit Two-thirds of the way  between Chico, where we spend the occas...
Saturday, April 20, 2019

JENNER HEADLANDS PRESERVE

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a tale of two visits I like discovering a new road  and I like discovering a new trail.  This is about the latter. We hadn’t en...
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Saturday, April 13, 2019

BUSTIN’ TRAIL IN CLOVERDALE

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The Church of the Open Road’s Good Deed for the Day… Adjacent to our little community  rests an open space that sweeps from the edge ...
Monday, April 8, 2019

YOSEMITE: 1954

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My first visit to the Sierra… The ’54 Ford Ranchwagon  was brand new.  Not that I remember.  Dad had banged up a ’46 Chevy in a collisi...
Friday, April 5, 2019

YOSEMITE: WINTER INTO SPRING

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Visiting America’s BEST idea Only the calendar  suggested that spring had come to Yosemite. Winter was not quite finished. Vigorous...
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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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