Then I road-tripped through some of the most remote parts of Iceland under the midnight summer sun.

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Charging through some of the same sections of mountain road I'd plied earlier in the Phantom, the 57S offered a very different experience.

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Before leaving for law school in China I jumped in my little red truck, threw my newly bought old-time banjo in the back, and went on a road trip through Appalachia to learn some old-time American music.

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"In its eighth version, MobileNavigator delivered over 30 new features since our launch almost two years ago, helping drivers navigate stress-free through even some of the most challenging situations on the road, " said Gerhard Mayr, vice-president worldwide mobile phone business, NAVIGON.

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They went over one more fence, walked around a parking lot, picked their way through some woods, and emerged onto a four-lane road.

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An hour earlier, we had imagined hostile stares from some villagers as we walked the uphill road through town along the valley between sharply rising mountainsides a four-hour bus ride from the coast.

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Some of the demonstrations resulted road blocks, damage to cars through to attacks on police and serious rioting.

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There has got to be some way to break through this, to create new rules for the road in a situation like this.

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So there's a lot that government can still do - not only through direct spending on Broadband, on housing, on road, on rail, but some of the innovations.

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Officials at the county council said some changes to the town centre road network were "essential to make sure that through traffic avoids the congested town centre".

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