Godrich is still a rough and ready place with a potholed earth track running through it.
He earns goodwill by hiring residents, building community centers, paving potholed roads and digging water wells.
Wak isn't much to look at: a few potholed streets with 30-year-old concrete homes of German design.
They often live near potholed roads, with standing water, and are less likely to have insect spray and window screens.
And the idea of being foreigners caught with a broken-down car on the potholed village roads did not appeal at all.
The bike also delivers Pitt a smooth ride along L.A.'s potholed streets.
But public services remain poor: roads are potholed, airports are crowded and pupils learn less than in many places with lower taxes.
This paper in 1993 foresaw a long, hard, potholed road to peace.
As the Orangemen went by the staunchly loyalist Corcrain estate, they marched over tarmac scorched and potholed by night-time barricades of burning tyres.
Cheerful, hopeful music drifts out across the potholed street, past the soldiers lounging under a tree, and out over the clear blue waters of Lake Kivu.
While Mayor, he did little of significance beyond mending Bogota's potholed streets and taking full credit for a national effort to sharply curtail widespread murder and kidnapping.
Even by car, the remainder of the journey to the games is a rough ride over potholed roads that run out into a bewildering array of unmarked tracks and ruts.
As for the rest of the Dagestanis, they are left with potholed roads, derelict farms and factories, a polluted sea and a grim landscape dotted with houses half-built or half-ruined.
In the past year alone the American government has paved 200km (125 miles) of road, narrowing the gap in quality between the highways exclusive to Jewish settlers and the potholed Palestinian variants that wiggle underneath.
Stepping onto the main street of Nong Khiaw from the vehicle, it takes a while to shake off the bruised and slightly numb feeling that comes from riding along the heavily potholed roads of rural Laos.
With a population bigger than Germany's, Bihar still suffers from potholed roads, indolent teachers, apathetic officials, insurgent Maoists, devastating floods, shortages of power, skewed landholdings, caste resentments and an income per head that is only 40% of India's as a whole.
The government is still corrupt and incompetent, but the absence of war has allowed trade to flow once more along Angola's potholed roads, and thousands of families divided for decades by the fighting tearfully to reunite, sometimes on what is now Angola's most popular reality-television show.
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