Up the river a half-mile, we came to a wide spot with a tall cliff on one side.
She was, said people who live in this wide spot in on a narrow rural road, a pleasant if somewhat standoffish neighbor and an affectionate mother.
The big garage door has been pulled shut, and a wide spot on the smooth concrete floor has been cleared of cardboard boxes and delivery vehicles.
There was a sign identifying this as the Steele Prairie Preserve, another that said "Do Not Spray" and a wide spot in the road with room for one car.
He said Colonel Griffith, Mr. Getty and others who had made their names and their fortunes here staked out the city with monuments to make it more than a wide spot on the road to somewhere else.
CERDA, Italy — Just three miles north of this Sicilian village, on old Highway 120, there's an incongruous wide spot in the road where several crumbling buildings sit behind a wire fence intended to keep the curious and mischievous out.
In Plevna, a wide spot in the road 71 miles northwest of Wichita, the Alden State Bank, after being robbed twice in two months, canceled Friday afternoon hours, locked its door and hired an armed guard to check identification of anyone the tellers do not recognize.
For motorists passing through — more and more of whom will have been born long after the race's demise — the former start-finish line may be thought of as no more than an rare wide spot on an otherwise impossibly narrow road.
