51. Driving a back road, we stopped to admire the checkerboard view of vineyards from the top of Menglers Hill and promptly got lost. 52. Dull on the freeway, frumpy around town, uninspiring on back roads. 53. Entering the Palestinian-ruled city by back roads, the soldiers were not stopped by the Israeli roadblocks turning back Israeli citizens because of the tensions. 54. Farther down the road, at two more farms occupied by the tax protesters, men in pickup trucks scrutinized another car that ventured down the lonely back road. 55. For instance, have you heard the one about the high-school couple whose car stalled on a back road while they were on a date? 56. Finally, the two men took to the back roads, asking people whether they knew of land for sale. 57. Forget those impromptu detours along back roads. 58. Friends from a nearby ranch avoided roadblocks by taking a dirt back road and joined him for dinner. 59. Frank and I are riding the back roads of deep East Texas, catching up on old times in our first prolonged visit in many years. 60. Getting to the start of that journey, I have decided to drive to San Diego on back roads, as much as that is possible. |