Claudette roared across the dead land and rain lashed down into the fast-flowing river that ran alongside the gravel road.

The Saturn's tires rumbled down a gravel road lined with trees and ending in a circular driveway in front of a huge fieldstone mansion.

He circled back across Chaco Wash and picked up the gravel road that leads northwestward toward Nageezi Trading Post.

He came to a gate, opened it and went through on to a gravel road that ran at right angles to the tarred Sydney road.