That distant line was a fill, a forty-foot sand embankment across the marsh between the St. John's River and the east coast town of Mimms, and I had driven its one-rut grade two weeks before.

那条遥远的线是一条填土， 一条 40 英尺长的沙堤， 横跨圣约翰河和东海岸小镇米姆斯之间的沼泽地， 两周前我驾驶过它的单车辙坡度。