In the city of the future, the satnav will direct drivers not only to their destination, but route their journey straight to the nearest available parking space.
Some of us are still recovering from Ewan McGregor's unforgivable plug for Davidoff Somethingorother ("I find myself in an exhilarating journey" – presumably a journey straight to the bank).
So their new car, a hybrid 908 intended to challenge similar vehicles from Audi and Toyota, is destined to make its only journey straight to the company's museum.
And in another example of an erotic adventure supplanting married ennui, a second couple, Annie and Douglas Brown, embarked on a similar, if abbreviated journey: 101 straight days of post-nuptial sex.
LACE up your boots, shoulder a pack, and head out on the North Country Trail this month from its origin in Crown Point, N.Y., and you could journey westward straight through the summer, past autumn's falling leaves, and hike miles nonstop every day until snow blocks the path.
Amity P. Buxton, co-author of the recently released Unseen-Unheard: Journey of Straight Spouses, is the founder of the Straight Spouse Network.
However, rather than being a straight journey "heavenward" from Mecca, as it were, the journey first goes to Jerusalem.
Here he offered an unusual but compelling journey that went straight from Bach (the D minor English Suite) to late Liszt and concluded, after some musical glimpses of Finland, with the Sonata by Henri Dutilleux.
'I like that I can make people look differently at a building, and make them passionate about the things I know.' For her, navigating the canals is a journey that leads straight into the past.
As David Brooks writes in The Road to Character, "Are you pursuing resume values or eulogy values?" When I graduated from college, I had the naive notion that my leadership journey was a straight line to the top.
During a lull between winter storms, Shackleton and two men journeyed for 36 straight hours, afraid to stop because they would die if the weather turned.
