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, February 28, 2011

RETURN TO HELL’S CANYON

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[SUMMER 2008] I AM RETURNING to the Hells Canyon Overlook. Only a week since my last visit, I am obligated to share the vista with a ridin...
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Monday, February 21, 2011

HELL’S CANYON OF THE SNAKE RIVER, OREGON / IDAHO

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Note: On a trip north back in 2008, I came to Hell’s Canyon of the Snake. It was late in a day when I should have planned with a bit more ...
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

INSIDE THE ENVELOPE

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Your heart knows the words so you sing along – sometimes in silence. WHEN I ENTERED THE ENVELOPE, I was first impressed with the darkness....
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Saturday, February 12, 2011

ULIN’S "THE LOST ART OF READING"

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-- A reflection “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had that advantages th...
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

GAS STATION DRAMA

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DATELINE LINCOLN, CALIFORNIA – a February day in 2008 SHE WAS HUDDLED behind the steering wheel of her aging Hyundai Elantra. Her eyes pe...
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Monday, February 7, 2011

A WALK IN THE (LOCAL) WOODS

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A THROWBACK OAK WOODLAND lies a mile or so from the house. Open space. Prime for development. Perfect for infill, so that subdivisions t...
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Thursday, February 3, 2011

SMOKIN’ THE NRA’S WEED

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Just a comment... A DECADE OR SO BACK, a couple of high school kids in Colorado, because they’d been bullied, entered their high school a...
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

THE BATHTUB RING

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INSIDE FOLSOM LAKE’S POOL The Lord raised his hands high above the American River  and said, "Dam it.”  And they did. - as told by ...
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Friday, January 28, 2011

THE PURGING OF THE POCKET NOTEBOOKS II

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2nd in a series “WALT LONGMIRE” series author Craig Johnson, in the middle of a presentation for writers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, pulled f...
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

RIDING AROUND: THEN AND NOW

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AS A LITTLE MAN of five or eight, I could lay on my back across the sticky, vinyl seat of the station wagon and watch an upsi...
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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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