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, December 26, 2020

2020: THE CHURCH OF THE OPEN ROAD’S YEAR IN REVIEW

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…as random and crazy as the year departing was, expect little or no order herewith… We’ll start with Edward’s annual first-week-in-J...

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Wednesday, December 23, 2020

FOREST ROADS AND FIRE TRAILS

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…the urge to explore continues… After calisthenics we were told to jog from the old gym out to Warner Street, tag the fence and run bac...

Saturday, October 3, 2020

RETURN TO MENDOCINO AND A VISIT TO FERN CANYON

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...seeking respite from, well, everything... In an effort to escape the end-of-the-world smoke of our inland valley berg, we loaded up ...

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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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