Cut 20 years later to the girl, now a young woman, riding the London Underground, destination unknown.
Roger Cohen (NYT) GERMANY: NUCLEAR SHIPMENT -- After three days of protests and 700 arrests, a shipment of German nuclear waste from a reprocessing plant in France reached its destination at an underground storage bunker in Gorleben in northern Germany.
Trollope and Stowe had witnessed firsthand the escape of desperate fugitive blacks across the Ohio river into the city, and Toni Morrison's magisterial Beloved (1987) also hinges on the city's status as Underground Railroad destination.
2. To reclaim Santa Monica's roots and reputation as being a luxury destination and having an underground street cultural edge, Santa Monica being one of the origins of surf and skate culture.
Two installations on the Expo grounds take visitors underground to mystery destinations.
As a retail destination, Chinatown is still "a very underground, indie thing, and for me that is perfect," said Erna Leon, who showed off her strapless lamé party frocks at Fifty-Two, on Canal Street, last weekend.
The final link-up of all the tunnels will be achieved in the spring, fittingly, by sister machine Victoria at Farringdon: the destination of the world's very first underground train in the last queen's reign, 152 years ago.
In this case, it was able to figure out on its own the quickest route between stops on the London Underground and reassess if the destination was overshot.
A spinoff series, "Go! Francis!," involved a felted-plush double of the dog visiting cooking-related destinations like the Ramen Museum and Tokyo Okashi Land, a labyrinthine, underground candy store.
NEWS ANALYSIS, PAGE A13 THIS WEEEKEND T: Travel From a family vacation in Mexico to underground Berlin, The New York Times Style Magazine looks at destinations both near and far.
