In their place stood a collection of bargains, castoffs and creaky veterans, all with healthy knees but much less ability to change a game, or the course of a calamitous road trip.
Nearby, to the west, Roman Road and Kempshott Lane mark the course of a Roman road that ran from Winchester to Silchester.
Being away from traffic is simply delicious, a whole source of anxiety removed, and of course having a road of one's own is something a cyclist relishes the way a football team relishes its home stadium.
From the phantom creek bed, we headed north along a path of crumbling asphalt, which seemed to follow the course of an old road on the map.
When he returned, he dug himself out of that rut with a scorching performance over the course of a 10-game road trip last month.
He instantly fell in love and transformed her into Marilyn Monroe over the course of a series of road trips which they took together.
The mausoleum stands alone, cut off, in the course of a 17th-century road-building project, from the Church of Santa Croce, to which for a thousand years or so it had been attached.
The massive Ollagüe volcano (5,868m) loomed ahead as we approached Hotel Tayka del Desierto, after driving for a while against the flow in a river that followed the course of an old Inca road.
It implies hotel nights of course, but the charm of a road trip is to discover out-of-the-way inns and tourist-free locales.
Rising enrolment figures at the Faculty of Pharmacy in Dakar – the total number of students grew from 742 to 1,212 between 1983 and 1987, remaining stable at around 1,000 until at least the mid-1990s (Gaye 1995) – seem to indicate the continued popularity of this course of study as a road to opportunity.
