Sentences with phrase «mile journey north»

Because of this monumental geologic event, the western half of this block took a 300 - mile journey north along the Pacific Plate and settled in San Mateo County as Montara Mountain.

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He also agreed to attend the company's first - ever strategic - planning session later that year, in mid-September, when 10 of the 70 Magellan's employees would journey 40 miles north for an off - site meeting in the wine country around Zaca Lake.

It's set to be quite a journey, with the 13.1 - mile Great North Run the furthest she will have ever run in her life.

during his impressive travels north from Cendrawasih Bay to the southern Mariana Trench and back — a journey he repeated twice during his nearly two - year tag deployment (during which time he traveled nearly 8,000 kilometers, or 4,971 miles).

Unfortunately the 250 - mile journey to Conwy in north Wales isn't exactly on my list of great drives, and it's even worse when you leave the capital at three o'clock on a Friday afternoon.

Beginning December 27, 2015, the 2,400 - mile journey promoted America's automotive heritage in cities from Tacoma, Washington, to Detroit and coincided with the opening of the 2016 North American International Auto Show.

Our journey began on Interstate 77, down through the mountain roads of West Virginia, through the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, and finally down the most insane highway of them all, Interstate 95 to a location only 50 miles from Florida.

A spare engine made a 350 - mile journey by car overnight from Porsche Motorsport North America in Santa Ana, Calif..

On a journey that will take them to Tibet, Nepal, China, Italy, and Siberia, the Fargos find themselves embroiled with black - market fossils, an ancient Tibetan kingdom, a lost landmass in the North Sea, Stone Age ostrich egg shards inscribed in a cryptic language, a pair of battles separated by thousands of miles and hundreds of years... and a skeleton that could just turn the history of human evolution on its head.

From the book jacket: In 1953, birding guru Roger Tory Peterson and noted British naturalist James Fisher set out on what became a legendary journey - a 30,000 mile trek around North America.

In 1953, birding guru Roger Tory Peterson and noted British naturalist James Fisher set out on what became a legendary journey - a one hundred day trek over 30,000 miles around North America.

We first observe the gray whales heading south on their way to their breeding grounds in the protected lagoons of Baja California and then again on their journey north to the Bering and Chukchi seas in Alaska; a round trip of about 10,000 - 14,000 miles.

My bike began creaking less than a mile into the journey to Koh Pdau, a river island 20 miles north of Kratie.

Royalty and world leaders alike are known to have been regular travellers on The Blue Train over the years, whose famous route covers 994 miles between Pretoria in the north and the southern coastal city of Cape Town, a full 27 - hour journey.

Start the journey on Highway 2 about 30 miles north of Seattle near Everett.

This whole journey shows a remarkable engineering achievement, due to the gain in height of 1,623 feet in the 30 miles travelled between North Conway and Fabyan Station.

Each year, as many as 10,000 humpback whales are said to make their annual 3,000 - mile - long journey from the North Pacific to warm Hawaiian seas to give birth and mate.

Each year, the Eastern North Pacific Gray Whale (Eschrichtius robustus) migrates from its feeding grounds in the Arctic to the warm Mexican waters and Lagunas, a journey of 8,500 to 11,000 miles.

5 Gyres began studying the problem in 2008, and in 2009 completed our first Expedition — a 2,600 - mile, 88 - day journey from California to Hawaii through the North Pacific Gyre on the Junk Raft, a vessel build from 15,000 plastic water bottles.