They had us running up the hills, down the hills, monitoring our food intake.
Down to the river, out to the mine, up the hills, into the few businesses that lined Main, where all the shopkeepers knew their names.
It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and can coast down them.
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.
The town of Sausalito lies just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, stretching up the steep hills that rise from the bay.
Yesterday, Austrian-born winemaker Rudi Bauer of the esteemed winery Quartz Reef drove me up into the hills overlooking Lake Dunstan, which cuts a large swath through the middle of the massive eastern section of Central Otago.
But many refugees are still camped up in the hills west of Pristina, and in the south-west.
He hunts and traps muskrat, caribou and bear for their meat and pelts, driving an ATV or hiking up into the hills to find them.
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.
Get lost on the roads that wind their way up and down the hills of the Black Forest, where the summer sun filters through the canopy of trees to dapple the road in front of you.
For Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai, Thai Army chief Surayudh Chulanont and other law enforcers, the frontline of the war against amphetamines pouring into Thailand lies up in the forested hills of the Myanmar border.
The beams of my headlights lit up hedges, hills, obelisks, but the girl, Diana, was nowhere to be seen.
One morning I woke up after a day in the hills and I felt terrible, worse that you would after any hangover.
Troubled with back problems, his tournament form has recently suffered a serious slump and he had not won a tournament for nearly six months in the lead up to Oakland Hills in September.
"It was more for a show but everything would be ready and then they would then go and take this Rolls Royce up to a point or the hills and from there shoot the tiger that was already captured by their servants, " Pran Nevile, a writer and expert on India's colonial history, told the Reuters news agency.
The explosions which rocked the Soufriere hills volcano sent ash up to 12, 200 metres (40, 000 feet) into the air.
Judging by the crowds lining up at stands like Blue Hills Native Cuisine, where owner Bertha Mae Forbes busily fries up vast quantities of fresh snapper, the word may be spreading faster than Fenimore expects.
Y2K has some folks loading up their trucks, boarding up their homes and heading for the hills.
In response to seeing rogue investors stare down the Fed, the cautious investor will run for the hills and rack up her savings.
"Just in the last year, I've seen prices paid for tricked-out bachelor pads in the Hollywood Hills go up by 20%, " says Josh Altman, a luxury broker based in Los Angeles.
An article in the Wall Street Journal in January 2007 described a meeting over a bottle of wine at the Beverly Hills Hotel in which the couple decided how to split up assets, without lawyers, armed just with notebooks.
In parts of Chad, Oxfam says, some villagers are digging up ant hills to gather grain that the ants have stored.
Herefordshire Council said it is expecting up to 5cm (2in) at lower levels and up to 10cm (4in) on the hills.
Exiting onto a dirt road, which wound for several miles through the hills, we ended up in a dusty lot, where a couple of minivans were parked next to an informational tableau.
Today Oregon land, specifically the Dundee Hills where Drouhin set up shop, is prime Pinot Noir growing country.
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In the afternoons, he's even been out running round the island, pounding up its many steep hills, blissfully alone.
In a boat up the mountain rivers, we saw dazzling walls of green and countless waterfalls tumbling down the hills like dozens of shimmering tears.
"He's a sophisticated, astute businessman, and yet he was caught up with these trusts, " sighs the Bloomfield Hills, Mich. attorney, who talked his client out of this one.
He worked out religiously, partied hard and built a house in the Hollywood Hills where he would hang out with Bradley and try to come up with the next big thing.
"How he'd gone into the hills, how he wound up crossing the border I have no idea, but never in the year we've been in correspondence has he indicated any interest in covering Iran, " she told the Associated Press, adding that Mr Bauer did not speak Farsi.
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