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?

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

CONFESSIONS OF A NON-FITNESS GUY (AND HIS BICYCLE)

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New life comes from the old Peugeot X-rays of my troubled right knee show the doctor that it isn’t quite time yet.   “Tone up the mu...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2016

HULL MOUNTAIN

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high point of my day Seventy-five miles to the east , Mount Lassen rose in tiny blue splendor over the gray, smoggy haze of the Nor...
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Saturday, September 17, 2016

THE STUFF I CAN’T DISCARD

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Eschewing our throw away society… …sort of Chatting in person with a Facebook friend over coffee, we lamented tho...
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Wednesday, September 7, 2016

THIS PLACE I KNOW: a book recommendation

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Georgia Heard, Candlewick Press: 2002, 2006, $17. One of the darkest things a school principal must confront is the...
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Monday, September 5, 2016

FORT BRAGG’S ONCE-HIDDEN COASTLINE

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The Noyo Headlands Park: A triumph of community Family friends owned a little place north of Fort Bragg on Pudding Creek.   Twice ...
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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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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