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, August 31, 2016

OUT OF TOWN VISITORS - a follow-up

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a follow-up For those of us who may enjoy the adventures of others as well as their own, there’s this… Kerry and Paul Dickson, re...
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Wednesday, August 17, 2016

CROSS COUNTRY ON ELLIE: A 40-YEAR-OLD MOTO GUZZI

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Vicarious Life through Others’ Travels In 1971 , I purchased my first new car: a Clementine orange VW Super Beetle. ...
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Tuesday, August 9, 2016

FOX CREEK VENTED RACING JACKET

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A product review Over the nine-plus years that I’d owned my trusty Tour Master Coaster II leather jacket, someho...
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Friday, August 5, 2016

IF OLD TRUCKS COULD TALK

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I have a soft spot for silvering barns, rusted wire fences, weathered, hand-hewn livestock chutes, and old trucks.   The west is full ...
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Saturday, July 30, 2016

SWEETWATER SPRINGS ROAD IN GRAY SCALE

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Sweetwater Springs Road leaves Sonoma County's Westside Road (out of Healdsburg, California) taking you on a trip back into the hills ab...
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Friday, July 22, 2016

PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY FIRST-TIMER

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Living closer to the northern California coast than ever before in my 60-plus years, I now frequently enjoy a run out t...
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Tuesday, July 19, 2016

ELEGY

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The driver must have been going really fast .   The passing lane on US 101 north of Hopland was about to end – it was a mile-and-a-half...
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Thursday, July 14, 2016

HIDDEN HISTORY ALONG THE SONOMA – MENDOCINO COAST ON CA 1

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Interesting stuff – natural and human – too easily passed by… With the marriage of motorcycle and really good pavement, I common...
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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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