It takes more than an hour to traverse opposite ends by yellow-and-black taxi.
Although the term the Silk Road implies a continuous journey, very few who traveled the route traversed it from end to end; for the most part, goods were transported by a series of agents on varying routes and were traded in the bustling markets of the oasis towns.
This past summer Better Place launched Israeli and Danish networks that allow electric car drivers to traverse from one end of their respective countries to the other, swapping depleted batteries for fresh ones at a series of automated switch stations.
Unlike the Tour de France, in which teams of cyclists traverse the country and end in Paris, this contest will be decidedly more modest -- a circle around Lower Manhattan, ending pretty much where it began.
For about 35 years, Galás has been the queen of confrontational vocal performance, co-opting elements of cabaret, blues, jazz and electronic interference to make grand-scale music that traverses the styles and ends up as a highly personal expression, largely of angst, malevolence or possession.
Almost all end costumers traverse this process.
They discovered the next major outlet glacier, Amundsen Glacier, followed by Scott Glacier, arguably the most scenic portion of the entire Transantarctic Mountains, ending their traverse east of the mouth of the Scott at a peak they called Supporting Party Mountain.
Instead, most clinicians are dealing with lesser versions, an experience not unlike slowly traversing the shallow end of a very large pool: Half in and half out, you can neither walk nor swim but just stumble along in chilly misery.
More than 250 people in the remote Arnhem Land community and nearby outstations were left homeless after cyclone Lam in February, and then Nathan in March traversed the top end coastline and destroyed or damaged hundreds of homes, as well as vital infrastructure.
This landscaped riverside walk traverses the southern end of the San Fernando Valley.
