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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She took my hand and we climbed to the blacktop road and looked down it in one direction and then looked down it in the other direction.

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After an hour, he left the wide state highway for a snaky blacktop road, and deep in the woods he made a left turn down a gravel lane that ran as straight as a railroad for ten miles.

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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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