Now that I sit squarely in the lap of midlife, that endless road of time that once stretched out ahead of me doesn't seem quite so long anymore.

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Driving south, Table Mountain recedes in the rear-view mirror and congested streets give way to a cliff-hugging road and endless ocean views.

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You pass flaming oil wells, through the emirates of Sharjah and Ras al-Khaimah, before the endless development withers and the straight road begins to buckle towards the Musandam border, where a cliffside track winds around the fractured coast.

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For much of the day, a seemingly endless crowd had covered a six-mile stretch of Revolution Road in downtown Tehran, marching peacefully as security forces stood by silently.

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Stray dogs prowl the dusty streets, and a slender oil pipeline snakes alongside each major road, elevated on stilts, waist high, like an endless bannister.

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The Kurds, who run their own affairs in a swathe of northern Iraq, live by trade with the neighbours, almost all of it illegal: the endless stream of smugglers' trucks has dug eight-inch ruts into the road to Turkey.

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Pine Springs was a new development of modest homes with interesting modernist architecture that stood on the edge of a seemingly endless forest stretching north and west to Tysons Corners (then just a gas station and road house) and beyond.

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Underneath us a sand road, which will one day be paved, was already flanked on both sides by endless fields of crops, burnt-out forest and farmers so sure that they would not get arrested they had built houses, silos, warehouses and roads.

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