Khaki-clad staff from the bush-lodge-style reception toss our bags into an open-sided truck and we're driven to our digs down a bumpy lane beneath thick foliage, passing monkey enclosures and two rhinos in a field.
It's dark when I finally arrive at Tracy Mackness's farm – for reasons which are now obscure, I have decided to go urban pig hunting at 9.30 at night – having negotiated my way off a dual carriageway, on to the estate, through a gap between the houses and down a bumpy lane to a piece of land not much bigger than the plot for an average suburban house and garden.
"The residents ask us not to fix these streets to preserve their privacy," Mr. Cogger said, noting that the actor James Gandolfini, of "The Sopranos," lived down one of the township's bumpy lanes not long ago.
The Vacutug is "a service affordable by the urban poor, with the capital cost affordable by entrepreneurs who can potentially develop a micro-enterprise, recovering the operational costs from the revenue generated," according to TVE. "It is capable of accessing some of the most densely populated urban areas, with narrow and bumpy lanes, where conventional systems are unable to penetrate.
I drive there down a long and bumpy country lane, past fields heavy with summer.
The bumpy, narrow lane, used almost exclusively for parking, has appeared on maps since at least the 1860's.
When a friend suggested they drive the bumpy two-lane road up to see the rock-strewn landscape of a small wine-producing area called Valle de Guadalupe, they'd never heard of the place.
There, I have seen women vegetable shopping with a Hermès Birkin (retail price $10,000 or so), tottering up and down the bumpy, narrow lanes and climbing scary outdoor staircases in sky-high stilettos.
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.
Past the grey monoliths of Stonehenge, up a twisting country lane, down a bumpy track, through a white gate and straight into the country idyll that is Cannwood.
MILL LANE, a narrow, bumpy country road through corn and wheat fields in Hillsborough Township, N.J., has become a crossroads in the municipality's struggle to define itself during a period of rapid development that since 1965 has tripled its population to more than 33,000.
