His journey marked the first time a United States president made a public appearance by automobile while in office.
Or to put that another way, in 1845 desperate settlers followed a notorious mountain man on a journey marked by death, confusion and varying degrees of upheaval.
Our progress through a book is a journey marked in the transference of the heft of pages from our right hand to our left.
Barely more than an anecdote, "The Company Is Not Responsible" describes an incident on a bus headed for Provincetown — a journey marked by the delays and the overcrowding that civilians everywhere had been facing during the war.
In "Ema," which is set in the nineteenth century, soldiers take a young woman prisoner and, after a journey marked by baroque violence, bring her to "the edge of the world," Argentina's southern frontier.
It doesn't engage us through the usual strategies of evocative description or heroic characters or a journey marked by obstacles: it is instead an unruly, layered, shifting text resembling a post-modern pastiche.
I felt my life had already been overturned by losing my mother and didn't realise, until years later, that this three-week solitary journey marked another tumultuous change.
For many, the oil spill saga has been an incredibly long 87-day journey marked most memorably by dashed hopes (remember the "top hat" and the "junk shot"?), false claims (BP initially estimated that the well was leaking only 5,000 barrels a day), and generally diminished expectations all around.
To get to Delhi from Kathmandu, where he lives in exile with his fellow-conspirators, Shockie disguises himself as a farmer and undertakes a days-long trip by bus and train, a journey marked by one indignity after another: bad roads, oppressive heat, aggressive mosquitoes, ketchup sandwiches.
The journey marked the first transatlantic flight powered by biofuel in this case, Honeywell's Green Jet Fuel.
