Sentences with phrase «desert town of»

It seems to me that Piccard's point about CO2 balance is really about the embodied energy that it took to create the two Solar Impulse aircraft (HB - SIA and HB - SIB), in the first place: their fuselages, massive wings the span of an Airbus 340, the 12,000 solar cells that line the upper surface of those wings and stabilizer, the motors, batteries, communications and navigation equipment that keeps the plane on track and lets the world watch the flight in real time; not to mention the support team in Switzerland, and in Morocco where it safely flew yesterday, June 21st, from Rabat to the desert town of Ouarzazate.

Marfa, a desert town of 2000 people, had been on the art tourism map since minimalist sculptor Donald Judd moved there in 1971 and began investing in permanent art installations, using his considerable earnings and $ US4 million from the edgy Dia Art Foundation.

The Vault Hunters start by going to the desert town of Oasis and are searching for Captain Blade's Lost Treasure of the Sands.

In the Outback, visit the lively desert town of Alice Springs, Uluru (Ayers Rock), the Olgas (Kata Tjuta), the Bungle Bungles, Kings Canyon and Windjana Gorge, try bush tucker around a campfire under a vast desert sky glittering with stars and meet the Aboriginal people whose culture has survived for over 40,000 years.

We rounded out the month with a family trip to the desert town of Tucson for a conference and horse backriding!

Pass through dramatic landscapes on the drive to the desert town of Sesriem.

Take in the dramatic Namibian scenery on a drive to the desert town of Sesriem.

The industry's first big - box pet superstore, PetSmart, was founded by John Doherty in the desert town of Phoenix in 1987.

In 1996, Eric & Amber Snethen migrated from a nice Orange County California neighborhood to the beautiful desert town of Boulder City Nevada.

Saint Odd By Dean Koontz Bantam • $ 9.99 • ISBN 9780345545893 Odd Thomas returns to the fictional California desert town of Pico Mundo in what as billed as the «final adventure» for Koontz's popular character.

The road that leads to the desert town of Erfoud passes through the Rif Mountains before descending toward Errachidia, a former Foreign Legion outpost that sits on the edge of the desert plain.

After being the first woman to graduate from the University of California with a degree in science, Katie organized volunteers to help her turn the once - desert town of San Diego into a haven of trees and gardens.

He bought a group of stores in the California desert town of Barstow, however, and he couldn't be happier.

Just one school — Desert Trails Elementary in the tiny high - desert town of Adelanto — has been converted into a nonprofit charter school through a parent - trigger campaign.

And Cynthia Ramirez expects to have more say in the discipline policy and curriculum now at her fourth - grade son's school, Desert Trails Preparatory Academy in the desert town of Adelanto, now that it has been taken over by a small nonprofit charter operator.

In California's first two major parent trigger attempts — first at McKinley Elementary in urban Compton and then at Desert Trails Elementary in the tiny desert town of Adelanto — the efforts driven by parent unions proved divisive and hostile.

The K - 12 Water Canyon School has nearly doubled in size for the start of its second year serving the small desert town of Hildale.

His big plans are detoured when he gets impounded in the slow desert town of Radiator Springs.

Odd's first adventure, in the 2003 novel Odd Thomas, involves finding the killer of a young girl and averting the disaster that threatens the small desert town of Pico Mundo, Calif..

With her father Travers Goff (Colin Farrell) and mother Maggie (Ruth Wilson), she's moved to the remote desert town of Allora where her pops is a bank manager.

The first trailer has arrived online for director Kim Farrant's upcoming thriller Strangerland starring Nicole Kidman, Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce and Joseph Fiennes; check it out below after the official synopsis... Catherine (Nicole Kidman) and Matt Parker are trying to adjust to their new life in the remote Australian desert town of Nathgari.

Catherine (Nicole Kidman) and Matt Parker are trying to adjust to their new life in the remote Australian desert town of Nathgari.

Calvin Quate was born in the small desert town of Baker, Nevada, on December 7, 1923.

Five days from today, nine of my very best girlfriends and I will be descending upon the gorgeous desert town of Palm Springs, CA for a weekend of pool time, floppy hats, and irresponsible amounts of champagne.

Moreover, the inscriptions span the length and breadth of the empire, from the Atlantic coast of Spain to the desert towns of Iraq, from the garrisons of Britain to the temples of Egypt.

As you explore the deserted town of Shivercliff, you'll cross paths with various malicious creatures, as well as the occasional boss battle but each encounter loses its intensity quickly.

Day 3: [Cabins] Turning north we leave the bitumen and head to the now deserted town of Kingoonya.

On the way we pass through another almost deserted town of Terowie, which claims to be the place where General Douglas McArthur proclaimed «He would return» during the Second World War.

Day 3: (Cabin) Turning north we leave the bitumen and head to the now deserted town of Kingoonya.

Start heading towards Jaipur and en - route visit old deserted town of Mughal Dynasty, Fatehpur Sikri.

As you explore the deserted town of Shivercliff, you'll cross paths with various malicious creatures, as well as the occasional boss battle but each encounter loses its intensity quickly.

I also work a few small desert towns of 10K each.

Not exact matches

Despite the massive (and, at the time of this writing, unextinguished) forest fire that ravaged parts of Fort McMurray, Alta., forced the evacuation of 90,000 residents and took an estimated 1.2 million barrels of daily capacity — 1.4 % of the global supply — offline, it has been quick to resume operations, even while the town remains deserted.

Suddenly, they took us by the arm and marched us out, and essentially took us to the centre of that particular town, in the middle of the desert, and stood us in front of a wall.

The event, now in its 27th year, is one of the city's largest — more than 170,000 people pile into the growing desert locale to make deals, listen to copious amounts of music and explore this always - active college town.

There are also vast stretches of desert, dotted with small towns.

In my travels, I have found it in the most northern town in Norway and in the heart of the Sahara Desert.»

But it sounded ideal... a small - but - friendly expat community and welcoming locals living happily together in a typical Panamanian small town... and nearby, long stretches of nearly deserted beaches they could have almost to themselves.

In the United States, the thousands of deserted rural towns resulting from the replacement of family farming by agribusiness are one witness to this destruction.

God is eating with sinners and despised ones, God is liberating captives, God is beauty for ashes and joy for mourning, God is streams in the desert, God is manna from heaven, God is born of a teenager in a town no one revered, God is being whipped, God is being crucified, God is dying, God is buried, God is alive, alive, alive, resolutely frustratingly miraculously alive because everything is being restored and redeemed and resurrected and renewed.

Had the Crusaders» remaining force at the end of the First Crusading march been a little more numerous, had they taken Damascus and a string of towns on the fringe of the desert, the whole history of the world would have been changed.

New York Times: One - Stop Sunday Mornings for Cowboys and Cowgirls in an Arizona Town From an improvised pulpit nestled on a slice of desert sand between a bull - riding ring and a bar serving biscuits and $ 3 beers, the preacher opened his last sermon of the year with a question and a revelation.

We are on a desert island, in a town at the edge of a crumbling empire, at an obscure farm in the remote heart of the country, or in the middle of a war.

Had the Crusaders» remaining force at the end of the First Crusading march been a little more numerous, had they taken Damascus and a string of towns on the fringe of the desert, the whole...

The monastery blends nicely into the desert just outside the small town of Florence, Arizona.

We went camping with our ENTIRE family in Calico Ghost Town (in the heart of the California desert) during labor day weekend.

Growing up in a small desert town in California, the schools of my youth were no exception.

Even the in - town sportsbooks are paying attention to the possibility of playoff action in the desert: The Knights are currently tied for the second - best Stanley Cup odds of any team in the league.

Police say the man drove her to a deserted road in the town of Poland near Kennedy before she eventually escaped and found help at a nearby residence.

During the early morning of Aug. 12, police say Chant allegedly abducted a 12 - year - old Jamestown girl from her home early and — with use of a stolen Dodge Caravan — drove her to a deserted road in the town of Poland.