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?

Thursday, December 22, 2016

AMOS

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  a holiday tale for 2016 I never met Amos but here’s what I’ve been told... About seventeen years ago, and b...
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Saturday, December 17, 2016

THE GNASHING OF TEETH WON’T GET THE JOB DONE

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Opening a Church of the Open Road discussion It has been over a month since our great land began the “smooth transi...
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Monday, December 12, 2016

NANCY KELSEY – THE UNHERALDED BEAR FLAG WOMAN

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Part of the Pinnacles, Carrizo Plain, Central Coast Range Tour On a tour of the central portion of California’s Coast Range, I ran...
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Saturday, December 10, 2016

A BRIEF AND INCOMPLETE EXPLORATION OF THE CENTRAL COAST RANGE

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The Pinnacles, Carrizo Plain, Central Coast Range Tour Were they situated anywhere else in the world , California’s Coast Range w...
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Thursday, December 8, 2016

THE GHOST OF EL CAMINO VIEJO

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Part of the Pinnacles, Carrizo Plain, Central Coast Range Tour “There’s a gravesite I try to get to every time I ...
Friday, November 11, 2016

THE TRIUMPH LT AND LOSING MY SHIRT

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…a good news story… Ukiah, California is an old-school town and in the heart of downtown Ukiah stands MacNab’s, an ...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

SMELLIN’ THE BARN

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Day Four and Five of the Bend, Oregon   October Fogged-Out Ride (Next time we’ll do this in September!) Rider magazine contri...
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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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