Through huge rocks and small canyons we roar, through picturesque desert and slowly melting, sticky-to-the-touch, two-lane blacktop.
In Ohio, that is the time when long, leisurely drives along wide roads and narrow strips of blacktop can feel the most enticing.
The family from Tupelo are unloading their huge crew-cab diesel in the whirling storm, sliding their coolers and luggage across the icy blacktop.
She took my hand and we climbed to the blacktop road and looked down it in one direction and then looked down it in the other direction.
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The parking lot at the auto auction a few miles west of Indianapolis looks like a car dealer's nightmare: 150 acres of blacktop packed with undistinguished used vehicles.
And the Spyder is a willing partner when you want to take on some twisted sections of blacktop (not a point we could ever make about the Sebring).
It finds its victims at a prairie gas station, on a two-lane blacktop, and at a scruffy motel that is the stage for the final showdown with the law.
The Dames whose lineup includes struggling students, a patent lawyer, a tattoo artist and a ketchup marketer operate on a shoestring, vying with volleyball players for practice time on blacktop at a park.
After an hour, he left the wide state highway for a snaky blacktop road, and deep in the woods he made a left turn down a gravel lane that ran as straight as a railroad for ten miles.
We were into open country now, running straight up the coast about a mile from the ocean on a two-lane blacktop road across the dunes with no clouds in the sky and a full moon blazing down on the Pacific.
We hit it, the steering wheel went dead and the car began to glide, ghosting toward the shoulder, which looked about four feet wide and well below the surface of the new blacktop it was a big drop-off of five or six inches and the shoulder was red clay drenched with rain.
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There were elaborate wooden playgrounds in the backyards and mini satellite dishes on every roof, and each driveway was a smooth carpet of blacktop and there wasn't a sidewalk crack to trip over because there were no sidewalks, and each house had a garage that was so oversized it could have been its own house.
Another example of his unorthodox thinking is his observation that painting the roofs of buildings around the world white and using light-coloured road surfaces rather than blacktop would reflect a lot of sunlight back into space possibly enough to have an effect on global warming as big as taking every car in the world off the road for a decade.
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