For 45 minutes they made their way to the Rockaways in Queens, past piles of debris, boats overturned in the road, caravans of Army trucks and a sign saying, "FEMA please help us".
Many peoples have since mixed with them, including Egyptians from the Nile valley, Arabs, Sudanese, Turks, and, particularly in the case of Al-Khārijah, sub-Saharan Africans for this was the point of entry into Egypt of the Darb al-Arbaʿīn (Forty Days Road), the caravan route from the Darfur region of Sudan.
The town gradually became a trading centre at a junction of roads and caravan trails.
Campaign signs invisible on the dark roads, the caravan passed Rite-Aid after Rite-Aid, seemingly cruising an endless loop, its passengers feeling like the only people around, perhaps the only people alive, who cared that the polls would open in a few hours.
The Saluki is a sighthound and historically traveled throughout the Middle East and Silk road with caravans and nomadic tribes over an area stretching from the Sahara to the Caspian Sea and China.
Although two great roads cross it the caravan route from the southeast to Lhasa and the road from Kunming to Myanmar much of the river valley in the highlands of Tibet and Yunnan is remote and sparsely populated.
The principal raison d'etre of the empire was the desire to control the trade in alluvial gold, which had led the nomadic Amazigh peoples of the desert to develop the western trans-Saharan caravan road.
Originating at Xi'an (Sian), the 4,000-mile 4,000-mile road, actually a caravan tract, followed the Great Wall of China to the northwest, bypassed the Takla Makan Desert, climbed the Pamirs (mountains), crossed Afghanistan, and went on to the Levant; from there the merchandise was shipped across the Mediterranean Sea.
Moti Mahal (116 Turner Road; 022-26-40-8577) and Caravan Serai (155 Waterfield Road 022-- 26-43-2570) are twofof the area's Indian restaurants that offer a more formal dining experience.
Pack light Unless you're hitting the road in a caravan, you'll want to pack light.
