Although the airlines have plenty of empty seats, roadside hotels and motels "and the drive markets are holding up better," Hanson of PricewaterhouseCoopers said.
That character, Antonio Ricci, wants to work and finds a job pasting movie posters to empty stretches of roadside wall.
We travelled over the country, flying, driving, checking into motels, the mindless joy of America, beer bottles lying by the roadside, empty cans tumbling like paper.
But now, row after row of fuel trucks stand empty on the roadside, while throngs of young men mill about, puzzling over the mysterious turnabout by Turkey's leaders, who long had allowed the illegal trade to flourish.
They slip from roadside to empty town, scavenging what they can.
BANGUI, Central African Republic — Troops from a Portuguese-led U.N. "Rapid Defense Force" fanned out across Bangui's deserted city streets last Monday evening, scanning empty market stalls and roadside bars for "insurgents".
At that time, with a Sunni insurgency raging, Shia militias and Sunni militant groups were notorious for killing members of the other sect, and bodies were frequently dumped along roadsides, on empty land, in ditches and canals.
The roadside was mostly empty, punctuated only by the occasional small bazaar of cramped, ramshackle one-room shops, each adjoining the next: wheel repair places, small lumber purveyors, a few vegetable sellers.
Willie dresses like an old west pioneer and paints mysterious, menacing murals that cover the walls of the shimmering pool by Pinky's and Millie's apartment as well as those of the empty pool at the decrepit roadside attraction, Dodge City, a run-down bar, shooting range and dirt-track motorcycle course that she owns and Edgar dominates.
