The car was just about to us, its driver's fat, solemn face intent on the road ahead, on business, on a family in Sante Fe -- on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue.

Sometimes they just parked at the side of the road and used radar on the trucks as they passed.

The gunfire, which was so near that it seemed just a piece up the road now, stopped for long enough to count to twenty ; ;

Going through the Imperial Gate in the wall, I entered the grounds of Topkapi Palace, home of the Sultans and nerve center of the vast Ottoman Empire, and walked along a road toward another gate in the distance, past the Church of St. Irene, completed by Constantine in 330 A.D. on my left, and then, just outside the second gate, I saw a spring with a tap in the wall on my right -- the Executioner's Spring, where he washed his hands and his sword after beheading his victims.

An almost too-simple-to-be-true way to set forth on such adventures is just to put yourself behind the wheel of a car and head for the open road.

There were three houses in Salyer's Canyon just at the foot of a low bluff, the road winding along the top, entering above, and then passing down in front of the houses, thence to the Vermejo.

He had to make for the section of road just ahead that was bordered by the rail fence, the section by the farmhouse.

The Texans have two more road games -- at Buffalo and Houston -- before they play for the home folks again, and it looks as if coach Hank Stram's men will meet the Bills just as they are developing into the kind of team they were expected to be in pre-season reckonings.

Even though the island is just minutes off Interstate 880 in Oakland, the speed limit for the city is 25 mph ( 40 km / h ) on almost every road.

Fatally, Tallard, aware of the situation, did nothing to rectify this grave mistake, leaving him with just the nine battalions of infantry near the Höchstädt road

The circuit uses everyday sections of road that circle Albert Park Lake, a small man-made lake just south of the Central Business District of Melbourne.

By the 1940s the island had an airport ( just west of Puerto del Rosario on the road to Tindaya, still visible today ).

The road network is extensively used with nearly 2 trillion kilometers travelled by car in 2005, in comparison to just 70 billion km travelled by rail and 35 billion km travelled by plane.

To mention a few of the memorable milestones on the road to the scudetto: a decisive win against Juventus ( 2 – 0 ), with a goal scored by Elkjær after having lost a boot in a tackle just outside the box, set the stage early in the championship ; an away win over Udinese ( 5 – 3 ) ended any speculation that the team was losing energy at the midway point ; three straight wins ( including a hard fought 1 – 0 victory against a strong AS Roma side ) served notice that the team had kept its polish and focus intact during their rival's final surge ; and a 1 – 1 draw in Bergamo against Atalanta secured the title with a game in hand.

Towards evening Robert tried to retreat but was captured by Henry's men at a place three kilometres ( just under two miles ) north of Tinchebray where a farm named " Prise " ( grip or capture ) stands today on the D22 road.

This route is marked with posts and has refuge boxes for stranded walkers, just as the road has a refuge box for those who have left their crossing too late.

A temporary road, lined with barriers, was created across this zone and checkpoints were set up just inside East German territory.

The Heel Stone lies just outside the main entrance to the henge, next to the present A344 road.

During World War I an aerodrome had been built on the downs just to the west of the circle and, in the dry valley at Stonehenge Bottom, a main road junction had been built, along with several cottages and a cafe.

The " lack of sentimentality and the brutality of things " that Hooper noticed while watching the local news, whose graphic coverage was epitomized by " showing brains spilled all over the road ", led to his belief that " man was the real monster here, just wearing a different face, so I put a literal mask on the monster in my film ".

* The most nowadays advantage of tram-the other road ( secluded paths to avoid traffic ), which often cannot be crossed by other vehicles ( by law, or physical lacking of the other path ) can be achieved nowadays in other ways, sometimes cheaper for the whole new system like ULTra or sometimes just by secluded bus roads, with petrol / gas or electric buses ( in this case even some commuters like Paris and BHNS ( fr.

Having brought her one-year-old daughter on the road with her, this tour was also one of Amos's shortest ventures, lasting just three months.

The location of the barrow and what was probably Estrid's grave was in the centre of the picture, just across the road.

And the spread of Islam was stopped along the road between the towns of Tours and Poitiers, France, with just its head in Europe.

These irregularities exist just because it is hard to maintain good order when extending the network, and the UNECE does not want to change road numbers unnecessarily.

There is a proposal to develop some of the roads running from the SW to the NE to create an all-weather road named the Outback Highway, crossing the continent diagonally from Laverton, Western Australia ( north of Kalgoorlie, through the Northern Territory to Winton, in Queensland.

The final piece of the road network, a high occupancy vehicle lane connecting Interstate 93 north to the Ted Williams Tunnel, reopened on June 1, 2007.

The road heads north passing such important apartment houses as The Belnord, the Astor Court Building, and the Art nouveau Cornwall.

Prince Albert had an active role in these improvements, overseeing the design of parterres, the diversion the main road north of the river via a new bridge, and plans for farm buildings.

Some, but not all of the roads in the capital N ' Djamena are paved, outside of N ' Djamena there is one paved road which runs from Massakory in the north, through N ' Djamena and then south, through the cities of Guelendeng, Bongor, Kelo and Moundou, with a short spur leading in the direction of Kousseri, Cameroon, near N ' Djamena.

Serb paramilitaries ambushed a bus carrying Croatian police into the national park on the road north of Korenica, sparking a day-long gun battle between the two sides.

The Delphi Archaeological Museum is at the foot of the main archaeological complex, on the east side of the village, and on the north side of the main road.

N9 from N1 122 km north and east to Tadjoura, where a secondary road continues along the coast ;

and a secondary road from Djibouti south-west via Holhol and Ali Addé to Ali Sabieh, then north to join N1.

The M50 motorway, a semi-ring road which runs around the south, west and north of the city, connects important national primary routes to the rest of the country.

From Sundsvall and further north, the road passes through most larger cities as city streets.

The E 4 is the fastest road to go from Germany / Denmark to areas north of the arctic circle, including places in Norway like Tromsø.

The 90th Light was then to veer north to cut the coastal road and trap the defenders of the Alamein box ( which Rommel thought was occupied by the remains of 50th Infantry Division ) and the Afrika Korps would veer right to attack the rear of XIII Corps.

* Route Nationale # 3 ( RN3 ) begins where RN1 heads northwest from Bon Repos, not far north of the road network ’ s hub.

With support from the Asian Development Bank, a major road linking the north and southwest from Bishkek to Osh has recently been completed.

Downtown Kansas City is an area of bounded by the Missouri River to the north, 31st Street to the south, Troost Avenue to the East, and State Line road to the West.

Because of isolation, poor road conditions, and the prevalence of banditry, overland travel to the north of Mali is regarded as especially dangerous ; flying or traveling by boat is reported to be preferable where possible.

Common graves of the archaic Esquiline necropolis have been found near the north-west corner of the modern Piazza Vittorio Emanuele, that is, outside the Esquiline gate of antiquity and north of the via Tiburtina vetus ; most probably the horti Maecenatiani extended north from this gate and road on both sides of the ager.

To the north, the foreshore used to be around Government Avenue in the 1920s but it shifted to a new road, King Faisal Road, in the early 1930s which became the coastal road.

A proposed road connecting Bislig on the east coast with the Agusan River would pass through a ten-mile ( 16 km ) broad saddle across the mountains at a maximum elevation of less than 250 meters, while the existing east-west road from Lianga, north of Bislig, reaches a maximum elevation of only 450 meters.

The first recorded case of the formation of an hermandad occurred when the towns and the peasantry of the north united to police the pilgrim road to Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, and protect the pilgrims against robber knights.