Lost, they wandered past asphalt-black salt fields sparkling with a patina of thin white crust.
Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones wandered past, trailed by a young woman.
"While he tapped the keyboard, elephants wandered past, considerately avoiding the houseboat's gangplank.
Tetsuo Kagawa, 32, an emergency-room doctor from Tokyo, wandered past, whipped out his cellphone and fired up Google Translate.
A stranger wandered past playing bagpipes, and Ms. Sumner and one of the trombonists tootled over to check him out.
A pair of tourists wandered past; they seemed to be more interested in ogling Gyllenhaal than in examining a display of the badges of fallen officers.
The result even inspired one fan, who somehow wandered past security, to give the injured star David Beckham a face-to-face critique in the England locker room.
We hung out there for an hour or so, as runners in varying states of elation and walking-woundedness wandered past, wearing ribboned medallions.
At more than 850 years old, its age had always served as a reminder that it could outlive all those who wandered past, in awe of its beauty.
A guy dressed like Zorro wandered past, then a guy dressed up as a frontier sheriff, with a badge on his vest and six-shooters on his hips.
To replace him, Latham took to hiring any sailor or surfer who wandered past, and whose conversation he could half abide.
