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?

Sunday, August 19, 2018

MOTHER NATURE: HER DISPLEASURE AND HER LOVE

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notes from an eastern Oregon road trip - part 4 of 4 Over a period of eight or ten days , I'd spent many hours on Enrico, the Yam...

Sunday, August 5, 2018

CHANGING OF THE GUARD – A NECESSARY NEXT STEP

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…because you don’t want your future in my hands… The view from the mid-point of my seventh decade looks pretty bleak some days. From ...

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Tuesday, July 31, 2018

THE LESSON FROM THE SKINNERS MILL FIRE (CIRCA 1977)

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A Church of the Open Road mini-memoir In the summers between my first three or four years as a classroom teacher, I picked up work as ...

Thursday, July 26, 2018

FIRST RIDE IN A COOLING VEST

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… product test at 100-plus degrees I was advised by a friend that, before our August trip to Hells Canyon in Eastern Oregon, I shoul...

Monday, July 23, 2018

GREETING A NEW NEIGHBOR

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Unwelcome… …or simply misunderstood? My 11:00 AM Saturday nap was interrupted by a rap on the door followed by a barking Edward (the...

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

A VISIT TO FOREST LAWN…

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…and a few moments with my grandfather(s) Recently , we drove US 101 to Southern California for a long weekend. A nephew was getting ma...

Saturday, July 7, 2018

DAY TOUR OF FIRE COUNTRY – A RETURN ENGAGEMENT

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Riding through devastation and rebirth in California’s Coast Range One of the great positives of the changes in climate some say we ...

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Bumpa: 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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