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?

Friday, June 28, 2024

LASSEN PARK – BLAST FROM THE PAST II

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episode 2 in a weekend with extended family   Amazing how quickly  a yesterday from 60-plus years ago seems like a yesterday from well… yest...
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

CAMP LASSEN – BLAST FROM THE PAST III

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  episode 3 in a weekend with extended family   As coincidence would have it , on the evening of that very distressing day when the final de...
Friday, June 7, 2024

FIELD NOTES FROM FIVE DAYS ON THE MOTO GUZZI

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  …back in the saddle again…   It was the multi-day motorcycle tour  I absolutely needed to have.  A trip to my favored old stompin’ grounds...
Tuesday, June 4, 2024

LESSONS FROM A FIRE FOOTPRINT

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  …second in a series from a long-put-off road trip   Northern California  has always been my home.  For seventy-plus years my favorite plac...
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Sunday, June 2, 2024

OLD HAUNT

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  …first in a series of stories from a recent road trip My pal and I  powered up the roughly paved road to the Paxton Hotel about mid-aftern...
Saturday, May 11, 2024

THE LOANER

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  Think peanut M&Ms   Well, nuts!   A manufacturing defect in the gas tank of my wonderful Moto Guzzi V85tt has placed the machine in si...
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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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