My driver, whose response to any minor mishap during the day has been infectious laughter, appears perfectly happy to give up and head home, but I want to press on.After a long, tortuous drive we arrive in Shaxi, which has neither obvious signs of danger nor appeal, despite its colourful market.
Tortuous roads, like the twisty drive from Leggett, Calif., to the coast, blistering temperatures and steep climbs forced several cars to retire, including a prized 1912 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost that served in World War I and a stately Packard, discovered by its current owner to be the same car his father bought new in 1928.
First the 10-hour trip, including the plane flight and the tortuous mountain drive in a rented minivan.
I was covering the floods, so drove tortuous routes around flooded valleys, hundreds of miles along wind-battered motorways and down dozens of rain-lashed country lanes, but I'm not complaining.
And it is some kind of testament to the place that her husband, a consultant on Wall Street, also loves it, despite a tortuous commute: He drives to Weehawken, N.J., to the New York Waterway terminal, which takes at least 45 minutes, and then catches a ferry to Lower Manhattan, another 20-minute ride.
Miran Shah, where foreigners have rarely ventured, lies a grueling five-hour drive up and down tortuous mountain roads and across broad desert.
Historically, transfer of research from the bench to the bedside is a long, tortuous process – one that is not driven by anything very clear and that seems to be based more on fad and coincidence than on a keen, evidence-based evaluation of the literature.
Their mission is to drive two trucks loaded wth nitroglycerine over rocky, tortuous mountain roads to a site where it is needed to extinguish an oil well fire.
Instead, intra-pore Ostwald ripening of the tortuous pore networks was the key mechanism driving the evolution of pore morphology, with coarsening of both the asperities and interconnects being driven by their high local curvatures.
Driving during the rainy season can be a tortuous process.
It is far enough from San Francisco to deter hordes of day-trippers: a three-and-a-half-hour inland drive on Highways 101 and 128, far longer on the scenic but tortuous coastal Highway 1.
