Sentences with phrase «drove over the mountain»

To get there, we had to drive over a mountain range called Dalan.

Our 2017 Mazda CX - 9 not only had plenty of cargo room for luggage and assorted picnic items, but also an athletic chassis that made the drive over the mountains engaging.

I came in at 24.1 mpg in a mix of city, freeway and sport driving over a mountain road.

Gas mileage is pretty good, too, considering I drive over a mountain daily.

On the private property tour of «Arkapena» Station experience rugged four wheel driving over mountains that are still grazed by local station owners, the Gregory brothers.

Scenic drives over the mountain to wild Scarborough (20 minutes drive) and exciting Kommetjie (40 minutes drive) with its lighthouse and fabulous beach

The point is if the Cali drought continues and the rain is heat driven over the mountains, then water may be found by them over there, maybe in a short time frame.

Not exact matches

«Transporting the harvested logs would have required over 50,000 trucks driving on two - lane roads winding through the mountains from this remote region, which is far beyond belief (and likely road capacity),» he wrote.

Meanwhile, Coast Mountain Bus Company, the Translink subsidiary that provides transit services in the Lower Mainland and employs over 3000 bus drivers, is enthusiastically complying with the new law, and already has a small cohort of over-65 drivers in its fleet, with eight full - sized buses now being driven by the older drivers, and 17 of the company's van - sized smaller buses.

Because I almost always consider pulling over on the side of the road just to take photos of our Sunday drive: the crisp blue sky and the sharp green rolling hills, the turning - red blueberry bushes squatted across the fields, the rise of the mountains in the haze of morning, but how can you Instagram the rush of cold air in your lungs and how it makes you feel so beautifully, so fully, alive?

We drove through the mountains in the snow, holding hands over the gear shift.

We drove through the mountains to a small mountain lake, we tossed rocks into the cold water, a bald eagle swung low over the water, swooped up and out and into the tall trees, alone, and I did not envy that beast.

So I drove down our back roads and into the mountains, out and west, and the sky turned indigo while I blasted music and cried and wrestled my life into a Jesus - shape all over again.

To get there, I flew to Trondheim, Norway, and drove east for a couple of hours over still - snowy mountain roads.

In the stretch Shoe brought Saber Mountain to the outside and drove him furiously to win by a head over Exhibitionist.

Bundles of Hope Diaper Bank held their first diaper drive in October 2014 at Mountain Chapel UMC collecting over 3,500 diapers and gave away 2,300 of those diapers in December at the Green Valley Baptist Church's Food Bank.

M.D.s typically emerge from medical school with mountains of debt, and this often drives young doctors to choose private practice over a research career.

They are typically generated at high altitudes by stratospheric mountain waves — when strong winds that blow over the tops of high mountains are driven up towards space.

As we drove back over the mountain from Asheville to Lake Lure we were sated, happy and thankful that we could spend such a lovely evening with friends.

One of the greatest of all suspense films, this legendary French shocker is Clouzot's nerve - rending account of four expatriate drivers trying to escape a horrible little South American backwater by driving two truckloads of nitroglycerin to a burning oil field over dangerous mountain roads.

Drove over WV mountains with 4 - 6 inches of ice under the tires and didn't have a problem.

This involved a combination of spirited Eco - and Sport - mode driving, and like most cars of its class it struggled over some of the higher elevations during mountain driving.

But on our mountain road drive, the steering felt over boosted at times, although it's still an improvement over the 2010 model.

What I'd like is tight handling for mountain driving, as well as more responsive acceleration when I'm already over 50 - ish mph.

I attended high school up in the mountains, and the father of one of my classmates drove over a tree branch while collecting wood in his pickup.

As we wandered around the West — from mountains in Mammoth to a crater in Nevada, from peaches in Colorado to bighorn sheep in Utah — I never thought once worried our all - wheel - drive Fiat wouldn't be comfortable or confident doing everything we did over our four - day trip.

You really take brakes for granted until driving on a mountainside, they boil over, and you almost go over the mountain or into a helicopter or camera - car crane.»

I drove a 2016 Kia Optima SXL for several hours around Aspen, Colo., over the Continental Divide and through Vail on a mix of winding mountain roads and interstate highway stretches.

But the next event, the Circuito delle Tre Province — a seventy - nine - mile dash over Apennine mountain roads — marked the end of Enzo's driving career and the beginning of the Ferrari legend.

Last summer, on the Z4 sDrive28i launch, when BMW was promoting its fine new turbocharged four - cylinder, it also brought along a Z1 from its museum in Spartanburg, S.C. I wolfed down my lunch quickly enough to snare the rather awkward - looking roadster for the drive south from Pismo Beach, heading east on California State Route 166 to Ventucopa and then back over the mountains on glorious SR - 33 to Ojai.

Official average is over 40mpg with the EDC gearbox and standard 18 - inch wheels — on 19s over 170 miles we averaged around 22mpg, in a mix of city centre crawling, steady motorway driving and less steady mountain road climbing.

We drove confidently over a couple of low mountain passes with little fear of trouble, although it probably helped that the falling snow obscured the views and shielded us from recognizing the true force of the winter outside our vehicle.

Over a week of city, freeway, and mountain driving the Cooper S Countryman turned in a respectable 28.5 mpg.

I found that, over a course of driving involving freeways, pounding down mountain roads, and not too much stop - and - go city traffic, the car turned in 23.6 mpg.

I recently drove this car over a mountain pass and found it to not be as powerful as I would like, at times it struggled to maintain 60 MPH and would not accelerate very fast up the hill.

I've driven this car over mountain passes during snow storms while passing four - wheel drive vehicles.

When we drove the STI over our mountain course, we found its lack of low rpm power seriously hampered our ability to take the switchbacks at speed.

I test drove the Allroad over the broad flats and dramatic mountains surrounding Jackson Hole, Wyoming on a combination of paved highways, packed dirt roads and a surprisingly varied range of weather conditions.

The all - wheel drive, coupled with a wide wheelbase and fairly low center of gravity, makes it easy to whip around a cloverleaf or up a curvy mountain road without that feeling of tipping over.

I drove it over a number of mountain roads and used the Sportmatic feature on the six - speed automatic to keep it in the best gear.

Does not work hard going over the mountains and still gets 28.4 miles to the gallon every day driving at 65 mph.

In our 200 miles split between city driving — where the V - 8 felt cramped and unhappy — and challenging mountain roads, we observed just over 15mpg.

This is all around driving city, mountains, interstate (no trip over 110 mi.

We averaged 21.7 mpg over a combined cycle of about 130 miles of city / highway driving and about 100 miles of pretty severe mountain - road flogging.

I drive it year round here in the mountains of western NC, USA, and I have a set of summer tires on aftermarket wheels and change over to the all - season tires on the factory wheels when winter comes.

Looking at the mountains and sipping from a clear crystal spring and then driving a big, powerful, smelly truck all over it.

We got no track time so we can't tell you at what point it starts to understeer but we did enjoy two days of driving these new Fusions all over the Santa Monica Mountains and came away unfatigued and mostly satisfied.

Shortly after we purchased this vehicle, we had to drive over the Sierra Nevada mountains through snowy conditions, it performed flawlessly.

Over a course of freeway and high - revving mountain driving, with a little city traffic at the end, my overall average came to 29 mpg, not bad for such a sprightly little car.

Driving it over wet mountain roads, the car craved speed, begging for more power on every turn.