Two hours by car southeast of Johannesburg, where the California-quality N3 Motorway meets a two-lane blacktop highway called R34, a stretch of spectacularly deteriorated road begins to show itself.

向约翰内斯堡东南驱车两小时后，在媲美加州公路质量的N3高速公路与R34双车道柏油公路的交汇处，一段异常破败的小路逐渐显现。

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Through huge rocks and small canyons we roar, through picturesque desert and slowly melting, sticky-to-the-touch, two-lane blacktop.

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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.

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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.

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