If you continue along that road, turning left at a fork, you will find yourself surrounded by rice paddies as far as the eye can see.
Tripolitans seem to think that traffic lights are just festive bits of colored glass strewn randomly along the roads, and they rebel against tightly regulated lives by ignoring all driving rules, blithely heading into opposing traffic on the far side of a two-way road, turning abruptly across five lanes of streaming cars.
Yet for the last 12 years, Ms. Dawkins, a 63-year-old author and truck-stop celebrity from Lexington, N.C., has been on the road, turning heads up and down the East Coast as she carries furniture from North Carolina to factory-direct outlets on Long Island.
In fact, Mr. Maurer is so impressed with the effect on family travel that he is considering spending $1,000 or more to install a similar system in his other car, a Ford Club Wagon, for times when he chauffeurs Ellen, who is 11, and Chad, 8. Entertainment centers, once strictly for the home, have hit the road, turning the minivan or sport utility vehicle into a family den on wheels.
They had a donkey stuck on the central carriageway of a busy road, turning its long snout first one way, then another, as it sought a sufficiently generous break in the traffic before clopping lazily to the other side.
M-3 parts from Gratiot Avenue at the intersection with 23 Mile Road, turning eastward along that roadway to an intersection with I-94.
