Many of these grapes are planted in California's Central Valley, the long inland spine stretching from Bakersfield north through Sacramento, where huge amounts of grapes are grown for inexpensive bulk wines and blending.
This necessitates long inland detours across poorly drained moors, through lush rain forest, over two subalpine mountain ranges and through dense scrub that's "as thick as hair on a cat's back," as one of the original trailblazers described it in 1906.
Seeing the region along some of the longest inland ferry journeys in Finland is a lot of boat travel, but the Nordic summer days linger, and you can hop on and off along the way, savouring the bucolic charms of Lakeland's most interesting and serene waterside towns.
Sets of parallel field walls, over a mile long, run inland from the coast.
Indeed, Liquid's wires now run a long way inland, as the map on the next page shows.
The Buddhist Council had decided not to build a temple on Staten Island, "because it is in a barren site, difficult to reach and far from eating facilities for worshippers," and "also it is necessary to cross the sea from New York to reach the island, after which a long journey inland is required".
This might be explained by the relative cost advantage of both rail and barge over truck on long distance inland transport, which can also influence the RO-RO SSS volume.
A drive along some of its long, straight, inland roads – like that from Modica to the hilltop town of Enna – passes huge tracts of unpopulated land, great wheat fields and wild, empty landscapes.
Preceding the Kumamoto earthquakes, shallow background seismicity in and around Kumamoto Prefecture had long been present inland in the Japanese Archipelago (Ogata 2017c).
The country's largest agricultural producer, California's Central Valley is a 400 mile long, 18-county inland fruit and vegetable patch that is now suffering more than any other American farming center during the current recession.
During this period, a market economy, domestic trading by coastal sea routes as well as ports, inland long-distance footpaths connecting major cities with stations along them, as well as river transport were much developed.
