Meltem Avcil and her mother were taken to Yarl's Wood detention centre in 2007, after a team of immigration officers banged on their front door at dawn, drove them away in a caged van and locked them up.
The four of us spent a night in a town called Cerro Azul and, at dawn the next morning, drove in a truck to the ranger station at the entrance to Chagres National Park.
Houston is another; there, a dawn drive past some of the city's 36 informal day-labour sites shows the size of the undocumented workforce.
While temperatures get higher than that in Africa, said Dr. Godwin Enwere, medical director for the Meningitis Vaccine Project, teams normally get the vaccine out of coolers at dawn, drive to villages and finish before the day heats up.
It was then, on those long, less-than-scenic, up before the crack of dawn drives between Houston and Tucson that I really got to know my dad.
He'll be an exhausted sanitation worker who rose before dawn, has driven a massive vehicle on congested streets for many hours, and is at the end of a mentally and physically strenuous shift.
The next morning, at dawn, they drove to Flint.
On the morning after Memorial Day, she and Williams woke up before dawn and drove to an unmarked beach so that they could take paddleboards out to an island they like.
"We'd get up before dawn to drive long distances.
On Saturdays in racing season, Ms. Rorke is often up at dawn to drive to a track.
Sometime before dawn, someone drove a fist through a swinging door on the first floor, leaving a wide penumbra of shattered glass.
