back roads

The smugglers talk about their ability to get equipment to Calais within “three, four hours”, which indicates they feel bold enough to use motorways, rather than back roads.

Linda Rosales, 68, took me in her dirt-caked Silverado through the back roads that connected the fields.

I soon left Clifton as well, taking winding back roads toward my next stop.

Her following — 50,000 on TikTok, 11,000 on X and 4,169 on Instagram — is not huge, but she knows the back roads and the fairways and has a widening degree of influence.

The few that braved the back roads drove brawny vehicles that looked like they’d been sloppily dipped into chocolate.