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, October 25, 2021

MR. BUTTONS

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The rule is this : Never name a stray because once you give a stray a name, it’s no longer a stray. It is yours. It had been three days ...

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Monday, September 27, 2021

FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF MY GUZZI V7 SPECIAL

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Downsizing and Upgrading – all at the same time As a kid , I was enamored with sports cars: Triumphs, Alfas, MGs. Particularly MGs: F...

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Friday, September 3, 2021

Well, It’s Happened Again

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I return to the fold About every four or five years I get the itch. I’m astride a perfectly good motorcycle – in this case, a flawless Y...

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Saturday, August 21, 2021

Memory of the Mt. Harkness Lookout

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Crossing Paths with Edward Abbey “Trudge” or “Trudging.” It is the word that I didn’t get right in the fourth-grade spelling bee at Rose...

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Wednesday, July 21, 2021

LAST FRIDAY’S CLOSE CALL

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Treatise on the potential hazards wrought by wearing riding gear to the lumber yard while driving a Subaru… I was not on the Yamaha. ...

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Monday, June 21, 2021

MY LITTLE DOG TOO

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… a true-to-life rescue story… On a recent Sunday , we were the humans of a second dog for about 45 minutes. Because he was a stray who, ...

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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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