He was from Sinjar and knew back roads and shortcuts.
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The mountainous region is crisscrossed by back roads and footpaths.
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"We took back roads," said Battles, who is from Bainbridge.
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Something that showed the topography, back roads and way points.
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They drive back roads to see which ones are clear.
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The group marched unchallenged through the checkpoint, avoiding the back roads.
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For days, Niokoa practiced on the back roads of Central Florida.
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Don't try to skip through taking back roads like this one.
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"He loved navigating back roads," son Will McClendon said at the funeral.
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"I like to take the back roads, the slow way," he said.
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"Most of the little back roads were blown up," Professor O'Callaghan said.
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Access to the city can only be made via bumpy back roads.
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"Turn down back roads, side roads and country roads," Ms. Pantel said.
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We put 4,000 miles on that convertible, mostly on New England back roads.
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Staying out of the mainstream and traveling the back roads, free born style.
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So I drove my motorcycle out, and I went on the back roads.
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In a drive on the back roads of Connecticut, the J2X is exhilarating.
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The McCains use the back roads, never the highways, though trips take far longer.
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At some point I hit traffic, and my phone rerouted me onto back roads.
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From 2005 to 2009 their bodies were discovered in canals and off back roads.
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The printouts led me, via a tortuous back-roads path, to the digital files.
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"I went back and forth every day because I knew the back roads," he said.
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Many also followed the advice to avoid congested highways and to take the back roads.
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Sometimes I don't know who he is anymoretraveling the back roads between boy and man.
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These include groups in rural back roads deep inside the White Mountains near the Canadian border.
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When the fire threatened their house, the Walkers avoided traffic jams by taking to back roads.
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After he fed the cows, he took me for a drive on some icy back roads.
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With many routes already flooded, they were leaning toward taking back roads home to New Bern.
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The teen also alleged that he and Burge drove around the rural back roads while drinking alcohol.
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There are thousands, maybe millions, of these misshapen risers on back roads and highways all over Mexico.
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The teen also said that he and Burge drove around the rural back roads while drinking alcohol.
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He left at noon and tried to take back roads but found them blocked by disabled cars.
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They relied on their car's GPS, which detoured them to back roads used by the U.S. Forest Service.
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The drivers intentionally go slowly and take back roads so that the trip, normally six hours, lasts eight.
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After multiple stops to pee and buy more booze, we get lost in the back roads of Tulum.
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After an hour zigzagging on back roads, we saw a bonfire in the distance: Was that the party?
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We bicycled down thrilling back roads in the dead of night and walked the beach in the rain.
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Normally, migrants take back roads to avoid the checkpoint and often fall prey to criminals who lie in wait.
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To avoid the dangers associated with lava, they've been using an entrance through their neighbor's land and back roads.
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I made my way via back roads to within a quarter-mile and walked the rest of the way.
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Deputies searched the back roads of Unadilla while federal agents conducted interviews and followed up on out-of-state leads.
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"The back roads of America are full of newspaper publishers well into their late 60s and early 70s," he said.
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He spends months scouring back roads along the East Coast, he said, until he finds one worthy of the honor.
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Ali explains how smugglers head to Pakistan through the mountains using back roads, to pick up morphine, heroin, or opium.
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They rode for hours, past large swaths of rolling green fields and Shell gas stations and dappled, densely wooded back roads.
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I have enough intelligence to know I have to move the needle from singing about trucks and back roads and fishing.
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Mancari is part of country's newest generation, a Nashville-based blob that's not so keen on taking country's strict back roads.
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But a lei can also be simply a tribute to the islands' beauty, improvised from flowers foraged while wandering back roads.
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But almost none had travelled the United States, spending time in the small towns, big cities and back roads of America.
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"Personally, I'd just as soon everybody stayed home," said Bob Middleton, 53, picturing the back roads he travels crammed with sightseers.
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As they cruised down back roads far from any cellular towers, the notion of accessing Spotify through their iPhones became laughable.
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"I was good on the highway and good on the back roads," he told The News-Journal of Daytona Beach, Fla.
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But the majority are naturals: Flannery O'Connor on the back roads of Georgia, Elena Ferrante in Naples, Pablo Neruda in Chile.
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Given the Rio's excellent chassis control, it would have been a lot of fun to shift it myself on back roads.
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After about a month in Wadh, Usman said he traveled by motorcycle with an escort on dusty back roads to Shikarpur.
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These songs exist in the same knotty world and wander on the same back roads but sometimes achieve meaning more directly.
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I played Nine Inch Nails at full blast in my car as I drove up and down western Washington's back roads.
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Frank is a Las Vegas native who knew how to take the back roads to get me to my meeting on time.
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Some residents in Wuhan spoke speculatively of trying to skirt the blockade by driving on rural back roads to evade police checkpoints.
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The G.P.S. steered me off the Thruway onto narrow winding back roads pegged with "Repeal the S.A.F.E. Act" pro-gun yard signs.
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"We have major neighborhoods under water, (there) could be back roads where people were swept away," McCrory said during a news conference Sunday.
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In most suburban enclaves, every parking lot is filled with pickup trucks and SUVs ready to conquer snowy trails and unpaved back roads.
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" They usually got to the town, Clifton, Texas, via the highway, but Chip being Chip decided they should "take the back roads instead.
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I was attending a press event and a colleague and I shared the car, driving the back roads near Connecticut's Lime Rock racetrack.
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Dry and offbeat, with an immediate, original voice, this comedy is a back-roads drive through the expansive territory between rags and riches.
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THE BACK ROADS THAT SNAKE through Mendocino County, a few hours from San Francisco, seem open to the sky and closed to outsiders.
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The North Korean military is known to prefer missiles small enough to transport on trucks, haul on back roads and hide in tunnels.
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Soak up the sun, explore the back roads, eat well and learn some new things about a probably unfamiliar slice of U.S. history.
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The deal eventually takes Paper Boi and Darius into the dense Georgia woods, winding through barely lit back roads, far away from the city.
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On the back roads of Brazil's three southern states—Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul—the staple is loops of smoked sausage.
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This great, tight, actually scary movie is about two youngsters trying to get home from a music festival in the back roads of Ireland.
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He was passionate about street photography, and during family vacations, he would insist on driving back roads so we could chat up interesting characters.
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They've worked the underground and the back roads for a long time, never quite achieving anything close to mainstream success and very much not caring.
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With no clear route to join their friends, it took hours of trial and error driving down flooded back roads and through partially submerged neighborhoods.
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This time, city officials attributed the lag in Queens to the borough's size and its narrow back roads in the face of a huge storm.
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It was in that 1962 truck, and wearing that hat, that Vidal spent his days zipping around the mountainous back roads of Cayey, Puerto Rico.
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We could have had fun with this merrily foulmouthed band of past-their-prime carnival workers, tootling along Southern back roads in a decrepit van.
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What does it have to do with the boyfriend and girlfriend driving along these icy back roads on the way to an isolated family farm?
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Nichols is a laureate of the heartland, staying away from cities, sticking to back roads, and lighting upon unregarded folk with little money to spare.
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When the park workers couldn't pick up its signal, jeeps were dispatched with hand-held antennae to hurtle up and down the red-dirt back roads.
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It was a lovely Spring weekend and I spent most of it finding deserted back roads winding around the cherry farms and wineries in Northern Michigan.
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Sam Hunt may be singing about back roads, but he took another mode of transportation when it came to wooing his now-wife, Hannah Lee Fowler.
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C.J. Keossaian flew in and used back roads to sneak past the police barricades, and Sam McGee — well, Sam never left, before or during the fire.
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As we drove to Salem on back roads, we saw people setting up lawn chairs hours early to get prime eclipse-watching sites on farmers' fields.
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He has released ads focusing on his Alabama roots, including one in which he boasts of extensive knowledge of the back roads in the state's 67 counties.
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Along the back-roads of both New and Old England, smaller companies sprang up again to make thousands of wooden artisan pegs of good hazel and ash.
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It took him several hours, on shaky legs through labyrinthine back roads, to slip back into the walled compound where he had spent the last three weeks.
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The final shot of "Episode 123" shows the two men driving through the dark back roads of middle America, with Don McLean crooning "Crying" in the background.
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What gets under my skin is the pristine portraits of a murdered teenager, and cars careening down dimly lit back roads in the middle of the night.
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Driving his truck through back roads, Jimmy Hedges would hand-deliver pieces to collectors' homes, stopping along the way to visit with artists and buy more work.
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I now spend weekends being bossed around by the voice of an unyielding British woman who seems incredibly confident about the back roads of suburban New Jersey.
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His investigation, accompanied by haunting images of Southern back roads and quiet houses, is punctuated by reminders that Bill Spann's death is hardly a unique or anomalous event.
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There are three ways to get to Malibu 13 — from the Pacific Coast Highway, from the circuitous back roads northeast of Malibu or by way of C.D.C.R. transport.
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When Columbia broke up over Texas, it was early on a Saturday morning, and I heard the news as I was driving through empty back roads in New Jersey.
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"The way that our roads are, there are so many of these little back roads and hollows that the sun never hits," Mr. May said in a telephone interview.
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He saw more of the United States than did Fitzgerald, Kerouac or Steinbeck, and what he saw was back-roads America: personal, intimate, ticky-tack and yet undeniably authentic.
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I would take off in it for hours at a time, deliberately getting lost along Vermont's back roads, whipping through the tight corners and taking in some amazing scenery.
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For a month, he learned how to coax a big rig along seaside cliffs and leafy back roads on the routes to many of America's most idyllic golf destinations.
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CreditCreditRuddy Roye for The New York Times Early on a balmy morning last October, Cedric Sturdevant began his rounds along the bumpy streets and back roads of Jackson, Miss.
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You break down in rural Malawi or back roads Tanzania, where there aren't any spare parts or much transport, and you might as well get comfortable for a week.
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Cover: Soldiers forming part of Mexico's National Guard board a truck to patrol back roads used to circumvent a migration checkpoint, in Comitan, Chiapas state, Mexico, Saturday, June 15, 2019.
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Just look at the success of high-end active travel company Back Roads, which has morphed from bike tours to walking/hiking/intergenerational (and does great in the boomer segment).
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But rather than shutting down her whole visual system, she developed some 'back roads' that could bypass the superhighway to bring some vision – especially motion – to other parts of the brain.
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"Dry and offbeat, with an immediate, original voice, this comedy is a back-roads drive through the expansive territory between rags and riches," James Poniewozik wrote in The New York Times.
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To test what had been primarily a loose suspicion of wrongness, Riis and 1403 other Danes were spending the month of June roaming their country's back roads in their outfitted cars.
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She had heard this same argument from other voters during her months traveling the back roads of this rural county, how they just were not convinced that a woman could win.
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Exploring Some road sections of Gold Butte can be handled by a 2WD vehicle, but a high-clearance 4X4 is the smartest and safest way to explore the rugged back roads.
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My wife and I hopped in the car and went hunting for pokémon with her holding my phone while we traveled through empty back roads where the cellular signal sometimes disappeared altogether.
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Starting in the 1970s, he spent much of his life scouring back roads for those vanishing emblems of midcentury enterprise, which were already imperiled by air travel, interstates and big-box sprawl.
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Mr. Burns has been buying American quilts since the mid-1970s, often on prowls through antique stores on the back roads of New England; before too long, dealers began coming to him.
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The History Previously known as Buckram for a coarse fabric produced at local mills, the name was changed in 1856 to Locust Valley, reflecting the numerous locust trees along its back roads.
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It is less than half a mile from an ocean beach and a mile, along pleasantly walkable back roads, to a business district with bars, restaurants, a market and a dance club.
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It may not be beautiful or perfect, and power may seem quaint at 225 hp, but you will find yourself looking for excuses to wile away hours on back roads to the beach.
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ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In a long-sleeved shirt and jeans, expertly navigating eastern Rwanda's bumpy back roads in a white four-wheel drive, Dieudonne Twahirwa looks nothing like the stereotypical African farmer.
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Buy it here >> The 40th anniversary edition of "Roadfood" includes 1,000 of America's best local eateries along highways and back roads, with nearly 200 new listings, as well as a brand new design.
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Compared with the back roads, where there is sometimes a single lane of bitumen (put your outside tires in the dirt if you encounter oncoming traffic), one might describe them as first rate.
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BACK ROADS The actor Alex Pettyfer ("I Am Number Four") makes his directorial debut and stars as a young man raising his siblings; his mother (Juliette Lewis) is in prison for killing his father.
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Volunteer Renz Oliver Garcia, 27, said he and other rescuers have been sneaking around back roads to avoid police roadblocks and rescue pets and livestock at addresses posted by desperate owners on social media.
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Did they know that the caravan was over and that they would soon have to make the dangerous trek on their own, taking dangerous back roads filled with cartels that could kidnap or assault them?
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In court, Ms. Kelly's lawyer painted a softer portrait of a divorced mother of four who resorted to taking back roads on her daily hour-and-a-half commute when highway tolls became too expensive.
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Their drive along the back roads of Alabama and Georgia is propelled by a soundtrack that is equally history-minded, with deep hip-hop and R&B selections strung along Devonté Hynes's mood-altering score.
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I had a full tank of gas before I left -- lucky because even on the back roads that I took to get around the traffic, most gas stations had those telltale plastic bags over their pumps.
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The shutdown has posed a major traffic disruption, forcing motorists to drive 100 miles out of their way on back roads to commute around the closure, said Jim Shivers, a spokesman for the state transportation department.
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On June 21, 1964, two lost giants of the Delta blues, Skip James and Son House, were found by separate crews of obsessed music fans after weeks of amateur sleuthing along the back roads of Mississippi.
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Cummins "intentionally employed measures" to elude capture by switching vehicle license plates twice, disabling the vehicle's GPS system, using aliases, altering the appearance of his vehicle, traveling by back roads and conducting cash-only transactions, prosecutors allege.
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Those interviewed said the path from Minneapolis typically begins with a connection to drivers, usually Somali friends of friends who have often driven to North Dakota, and know the back roads and unwatched bush trails to Canada.
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From this informal, back-roads networking eventually emerged an online journal documenting the lives (and gorgeous cabins, farms and studios) of the painters, writers and designers who have made the region beyond New York City their home.
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As the raiders got away, the Army scrambled helicopters and notified law enforcement, but the midshipmen stuck to back roads and were not stopped by the police until they were pulling in to the Naval Academy campus.
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In a dream state, I drifted across the region, taking back roads that led me down dirt paths to ghost towns and tiny villages where it was hard to find a person under the age of 70.
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In a dream state, I drifted across the region, taking back roads that led me down dirt paths to ghost towns and tiny villages where it was hard to find a person under the age of 70.
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As Dr. Wergin recounted this, driving through the fog-shrouded back roads of winter-stubble prairie, where patients are rushed to the emergency room after being crushed by forklifts and tractor tipovers, he recoiled against his own cynicism.
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To find out, I spent a few blustery days at the end of January sloshing through the muddy back roads of central Normandy with a friend who also was prepared to eat her weight in raw-milk cheese.
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ATLANTA — I have spent the past 103 years driving through back roads in the rural South to register voters, stop school and hospital closings and listen to families whose children are moving away because they can't find jobs.
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The students will be taking a combination of side streets, back roads, trails and other low-traffic areas in a route that was planned out in coordination with their adult advisers, including the Shorewood superintendent and local sheriff.
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HALCOTT, N.Y. — It's about 15 miles from here to a dairy testing facility in Roxbury, or about one hour and 20 minutes round trip if you know these dusty mountain back roads like Chris DiBenedetto, a dairy farmer.
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It's one of the reasons I decided to focus on the Interstate Highway System and freeways and turnpikes—there's not much romance there when compared to the back roads and scenic two-lane highways that once dominated our culture.
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Himself under threat from both loyalist murder gangs and republican terrorists, who regarded the nonviolent Social Democratic and Labour Party as sellouts or traitors, Mr. Mallon drove the notoriously ambush-friendly back roads of South Armagh with no protection.
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Toyota's technology is based on more than three years of research on the back roads of Virginia and Montana, a stint at a deer sanctuary in Michigan, and months of crunching data from studies of car and deer encounters.
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He becomes a human GPS, tracing a zigzagging route along the picturesque back roads of Texas and Louisiana and pausing to visit his mother, Sarah (Kirsten Dunst), and to pull a satellite out of the sky into a parking lot.
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I would take the Park Avenue out on warm Florida nights, opening the windows and sailing it through the smooth back roads of New Smyrna Beach, its loose steering always reminding me more of a cabin cruiser than a car.
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They used it to defy a British army policy of closing or destroying back roads and funnelling traffic through military checkpoints that were in place on major roads until a peace deal mostly ended three decades of violence six years later.
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And so went our days, accumulating cheeses as we drove through the rolling hills of the Pays d'Auge, past small-town war memorials and grand half-timbered manor houses on winding back roads dotted with signs for local Calvados and apple cider.
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LAKE OF THE OZARKS My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America By Bill Geist As a journalist, Bill Geist has traveled the same cornball, goofy and sometimes unimaginably wistful back roads of America as long as I have: for over 40 years.
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"I understand that it's very hard to control such a fire, but I don't understand why it's so hard to coordinate the movement of people," said Aires Henriques, who ended up driving for several hours along back roads to circumvent the fire area.
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It had been less than a week since she released her third album Tantil Before I Breathe, but as she crawled through the battered back roads of Barking that lined the edges of east London, she seemed no more excited or animated than usual.
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They need to be able to drive on both the cobblestone streets of Manhattan and the back roads of rural Virginia; they need to drive gracefully in reverse; they need to know how to do U-turns in spaces the size of a teacup.
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That game, which debuted in 2012 and whose most recent episode was released last year, follows an aging deliveryman named Conway as he travels the back roads of Kentucky in search of a secret highway that will allow him to make his final delivery.
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Armed with rifles as they drive back roads and walk through green fields, they ruminate on the lives they left behind, when they're not shooting up screeching flesh-eaters and stumbling upon monstrous, mysterious structures, like a tower of wooden chairs perhaps intended to fuel a bonfire.
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In an interview with The Hill late last week, as Carson and his Iowa state director drove the back-roads of the Hawkeye State from a rally in sprawling Cedar Rapids to a stop in tiny Bettendorf, Carson insisted that a comeback was in the works.
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It may be time to retire the type of road movie in which the protagonist, ostensibly on an urgent journey, insists on taking back roads — partly because she doesn't like trucks, she says, but really because a quick drive on the Interstate wouldn't sustain a feature.
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In "I Am the Blues," the documentarian Daniel Cross spends part of three years driving the cracked back roads of Louisiana and Mississippi to some of the last enclaves of the Delta blues, finding the heart of this indisputable American art form still beating, if growing fainter.
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Today I pick him up from his dorm at the University of North Florida, take back roads to where we live on Amelia Island, and set him about bringing in lawn furniture and coaxing the cats into carriers to take to my parents' house 25 miles further inland.
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After her defiant microphone moment, Gillan's character, Liusaidh (pronounced "Lucy"), picks up a bloke, has a quick round of sex, goes to the chip shop, stuffs her face with its product, then walks the back roads of her neighborhood until she meets Alistair (Matthew Beard), her best friend.
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San Juan National Forest officials in southwestern Colorado planned to close hundreds of miles of trails and thousands of miles of back roads to hikers, bikers, horseback riders and campers as soon as Tuesday to prevent the possibility of an abandoned campfire or any other spark from starting a wildfire.
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The year I became a junior counselor was also the year I got my license; being allowed to drive the eight miles from our house to camp for the first time — incandescent sun lighting up the back roads I swore I'd stick to, the Cranberries playing far too loudly — was an experience so heady as to border on stupefying.
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Fluent in the local language, obscure because he was a teacher in a bush school, and easily able to travel in and out of the country on his United States passport, the American performed various favors for the rebels, small rescues for their families, money transfers, and in one effort drove a car over 2,000 miles on back roads to Uganda to deliver the vehicle to one of the dissidents in exile.
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On Long in the Tooth, they share a duet about how country music radio would rather spin cookie cutter tracks about "back roads" that the new crop of Luke Bryants and Blake Sheltons have "never been down before"; songs about cold ones and painted on blue jeans that keep the suburban cowboy fired up through the work week, rather than true country songs, with three chords and the truths common to lives lived the hard way.
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