Poor infrastructure doesn't help: Many accidents occur on isolated dirt or gravel air fields, where it's easy for a plane to skid, especially if it's icy or muddy, or on lakes, where it's hard for seaplanes to land unless the water is flat.
I was grateful to arrive at our hut, set in an isolated dirt bowl, with dead trees marching up the hillsides.
(Universal, Blu-ray $39.98, standard definition $29.98, R) THE HEADLESS WOMAN An Argentine woman (Maria Onetto) is shaken from her world of bourgeois privilege when she runs over a mysterious something on an isolated dirt road.
"In your country," a young man ventured, "do the poor people live like this?" He gestured widely at his surroundings: a small community isolated by dirt roads made impassible for months at a time, without running water or electricity, certainly without sewage or trash removal.
In the village of Swaans, isolated by jolting dirt roads and dry riverbeds, one man, Gobrilal, lost an 8-year-old son to hunger this fall.
Real estate brokers say that in the past, city people -- be they from Manhattan or Mamaroneck -- usually wanted a weekend house that was totally isolated, on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere, full of blessed relief from the incessant traffic noise and jostling of metropolitan thoroughfares.
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Llorente, in a lowland jungle area not far from the Pacific, has gone from an isolated dirt-poor community to a boomtown in a few months with the influx of former coca farmers from Putumayo, coca laboratory workers and others drawn by a robust economy flush with coca money.
Half-built condos sit isolated in a patch of dirt, cut off from the road.
Every now and then we glided down to isolated villages, landing bumpily on dirt airstrips to drop off the now half-melted chickens and to pick up passengers, parcels and post.
The tiny village of Koovagam, burrowed in between hazy green fields, and approachable only by a single stretch of winding dirt road, is isolated enough to form what amounts to a 24 hour party fortress: You can come to the village to celebrate, but save for the select groups who commission a bus – you're very simply trapped there until morning.
