But the region's real attraction lies in emerging from the mountains and walking into any of the tiny, one-road valley villages set in between, stopping at a local tea house or thatched-roof bar for a glass of boha (fermented sugar cane beer).
We travelled through California from San Francisco to San Diego and everything in between, stopping at all the usual tourist spots, such as Alcatraz and Universal Studios.
The New Routemaster was a flagship Johnson policy when he became mayor in 2008 and was intended to combine the best of new, green technology with a revival of hallmark features of the original London Routemaster, including a second crew member (or conductor) and an open rear platform, which passengers could use to board or leave the bus between stops at will.
In between stops at Grand Cayman, Ocho Rios in Jamaica and Cozumel, they dressed in leather pants and vests along with 1,500 other riders, participated in contests to win $250,000 worth of motorcycle accessories, and viewed an onboard exhibit of 20 new bikes.
Listen to carolers and snack on kettle corn between stops at the outdoor holiday market and the town's bars, tasting rooms and boutiques, many of which will offer special promotions and extended hours.
None of these beacon systems use GPS, and that's for a number of reasons – for one, the signals our smartphones receive won't provide an accurate enough position to differentiate between two bus stops at a transport hub, for example.
This finger of Russian territory is squeezed between China and the Pacific Ocean until it stops at a five-mile-wide strip of North Korea.
He would weave between cars stopped at a light, hawking The Boston Globe.
The Court overvalues the law enforcement interest in using sobriety checkpoints, undervalues the citizen's interest in freedom from random, unannounced investigatory seizures, and mistakenly assumes that there is "virtually no difference" between a routine stop at a permanent, fixed checkpoint and a [p463] surprise stop at a sobriety checkpoint.
Across the 11 events, biathletes cover distances of between six and 20km, stopping at a shooting range either two or four times to fire at five targets - sometimes as small as golf balls - from 50m.
