There were no changing rooms, no stands, no TV cameras, only a deeply rutted pitch.
Today you reach Baan Borang over a paved road instead of taking your chances on a winding, rutted 12-kilometer jeep track.
The details of that event are carved in my memory by an emotional chisel that has left permanent, deep-rutted scars.
Maybe, but his path is rutted with a passel of imposing obstacles.
Balancing against the weight behind him, which made driving along the rutted canal road difficult, Nawab pushed on, under the rosewood trees.
We walked slowly down the middle of the street, six feet apart, using rutted car tracks in the snow to make the going easier.
But Colin Calderwood's side failed to build any serious momentum, with moves breaking down too often due to poor passing on a badly rutted pitch.
And on a continent burdened with rutted roads and dilapidated railways, airlines are starting to offer direct flights between African cities, instead of through Europe.
Progress will be bumpy, and not only on Manado's rutted roads.
Handling is confident, with a compliant ride even on San Francisco's famously rutted streets -- it's clearly a vehicle that would be comfortable on longer trips.
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In action scenes, Griffith bluntly thrust his camera close to raw physical reality, whether at hammered wedges splitting logs or grasslands cruelly rutted by war wagons.
"The bars just don't pay, " French says, watching with disgust as a tourist bus navigates the rutted street in front of his house in the flood-ravaged Ninth Ward.
We got into his black Audi sedan and climbed a road up into the hills, where we turned onto a rutted muddy track lined with cornfields and brick farmhouses.
It turns into a rutted, dust-covered dirt road that stretches on for another hundred miles, and is sometimes buried so deep in sand that motorcyclists cannot get up the hills.
But the only direct challenge we encountered on the rutted track came from a pack of 12 wild dogs that briefly blocked our path, and then lazily chased our small convoy for a few hundred metres.
Deep rutted Humvee trails crisscross the hills.
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As the usual afternoon thunderstorms began to roil up on the horizon, someone rushed to a nearby shebeen, a beer hall down the rutted road, to use the telephone there to call a relative who lived in the area.
Swathes of what should be one of the best tourist roads in the country, leading to the Masai Mara reserve, one of Africa's finest game-viewing sites, are barely better than a rock-strewn, muddily rutted farm track that was once smooth tarmac.
Its devotees are like members of the U.S. Ski team in the late 1970s, a hardy bunch that grew up carving turns on the rutted ice of eastern mountains and later flourished on the sweet powder of the destination resorts out west.
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