They became archetypal showbiz, jouncing side by side on the bumpy highway of life.
Our next stop was to be a few hours' drive to Serra do Cipó National Park, but since I forced my traveling companions to adopt my taste and take a shorter but much bumpier route over dirt highways, we pulled into the Rancho Cipó pousada in the early evening.
At Matehuala, a seedy-looking city surrounded by neon-lit motels with no windows, we leave the highway for a bumpy cobbled desert track.
Bayshore is the Main Street of Silicon Valley, a shaggy, bumpy, traffic-choked four-lane highway that is festooned with billboards for dot-coms desperate to capture a nanosecond of the fractured attention span of the valley's movers and shakers.
Get off those highways, though, and the bumpy ride begins.
A few years earlier, he said, the drive would have taken most of a day, but recently a paved highway had been built almost all the way to the village, and now the journey would be about three hours by highway and just 30 minutes along bumpy, unpaved paths.
Those of us who can't pay the tolls on the super highway will be relegated to the bumpy, slow buffering dirt road.
Watch out for bumpy roads, such as assorted sections of Route 66 and Pearblossom Highway (In California).
A 17-mile road, bumpy but passable to most vehicles when dry, loops through the area, between highways 261 and 163.
But, as Franklin Berger, a biotech analyst at J.P. Morgan Chase, points out, the firm may find the bumpy road of clinical drug development rather harder going than the super-highway of genomics.
