At one point, in my umpteenth roadside check, I turned round to see an officer taking my picture on his phone.
"I wanted to make my own roadside attraction, and mini-golf was what I knew best".
I travelled down your secret stem, And reached the root, and fed upon it; Then, in a language newly learned, I grew another stalk and turned Your stanza, patterned on a sonnet, Into my honest roadside prose — All thorn, but cousin to your rose.
I was stuck on the side of the freeway hoping my friend's roadside service would show, just watching tow trucks cruise past me.
But the journey took longer than I expected, and I was about 20 kilometers from Kokstad in the dark when a man suddenly appeared in my headlights at roadside waving his arms frantically.
On a trip to Sri Lanka earlier this year, I inhaled the heady aroma of cinnamon almost everywhere I went: in the lobby of my hotel, at roadside food stands, and on a plantation that has been processing cinnamon bark, lotion and oil for three generations.
After visiting Nuer colleagues among the 63,000 South Sudanese who had gone into hiding in UN bases around the country, he described in an open letter how he had wept by the roadside: "My Nuer friends are very scared and will not even fathom returning to their homes, given what they saw during the fighting in Juba.
I had glasses of juice throughout my trip from roadside stalls for four dirham; even in restaurants it is cheap compared to anywhere in Europe.
After my repeated pleadings, the roadside shop owner gave me directions to Nangdrol's home.
My parents bought a roadside motel in California and set out to make new lives for us.
