The story of this thrilling upstart in the land of flip-flop sandals starts at the northern end of the Interstate-75 freeway and runs south to Fort Myers, Fla.

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Portola near McClaren Park is also up-and-coming district, but it lies outside the Southern Freeway (Interstate 280) belt.

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Williams and Malvo -- identified as Lee Boyd Malvo on his birth certificate -- were arrested early October 24 while sleeping in a car at a freeway on Interstate 70, several miles west of Frederick, Maryland.

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State systems often followed the rough tracks of existing county roads, though Interstate 25 New Mexico's main freeway followed almost exactly the path of El Camino Real, the conquistadors' road that once linked Santa Fe with Mexico city.

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