The car disappears down the road, and you slide away down a broad river flanked on either side by row upon row of swaying palms, punctuated by the occasional picturesque village.
In 2014, naturalists navigated the stretch of river flanked by Chino Hills State Park on the north and the Cleveland National Forest on the south.
And the rivers flanking Manhattan did not overrun their banks.
"The highways of the past were rivers and the ocean - as the river that flanks the Pyrenees was an ancient trade route to the Atlantic.
The Kamchatka river is flanked by mountain ranges containing around 160 volcanos, 29 of them still active.
Both venues are located along the river and flank the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (2004), which offers exhibits and educational programs.
Back across a wide oued (dry river bed) flanked by dunes is the new town of dry-stone houses with low windows (against the heat), flat palm roofs and traditional triangle motifs cut into the walls.
The river valley, flanked on the left by the Vogelsberg, Knüll, and Habichtswald highlands and on the right by the Rhön and the Thüringer Wald, served as a trade route between southern and northern Germany during the Middle Ages, and the upper course of the river formed part of the boundary between East and West Franconia before 1100.
The second depositional systems tract (B) is characterised by clastic packages, dominated by large-scale (up to 4 km wide and 50 m thick), sandstone bodies deposited by low sinuosity trunk river systems, flanked by substantial crevasse splay deposits (up to 3 km wide and 30 m thick).
He said the combination of new construction and increased precipitation in the last several years posed challenges for Westchester, which is laced with rivers and flanked by the Long Island Sound and the Hudson.
The trunk river channels were flanked by extensive levee/composite crevasse splay systems.
