I can hear an occasional car pass several blocks over.
Nashville's honky-tonk heart beats loudest along lower Broadway, where the wide avenue passes blocks of neon-draped bars on its way toward the Cumberland River.
The Humvees rolled down the dusty main street, passing lifeless blocks of shuttered houses and empty, sun-parched lots flecked with trash and the rusting shells of cars.
The route proceeds north through the village as a two-lane road named Volney Street, passing several blocks of homes before crossing CSX Transportation's Baldwinsville Subdivision rail line.
NY 414, meanwhile, continues north through the community on Glasgow Street, passing several blocks of homes and the village's high school before exiting Clyde for more rural regions of Wayne County.
The highway passes several more residential blocks ahead of an intersection with Hyde Park Boulevard (NY 61).
As Ulster Avenue, the highway passes several commercial blocks before intersecting Market Street near the center of Saugerties.
Still no sign of David, but my American friend Ryan soon arrived, and we walked down Jianguo Road in search of food, passing yet more quaint blocks scheduled for demolition.
We were passing ugly blocks of Swedish pre-fabs and as we turned right past the loch, he murmured, 'I'm sorry.'
It proceeds north-south through downtown, passing several blocks of commercial buildings and Paul D. Schreiber Senior High School ahead of a junction with Main Street.