Up and around with a skidding turn to the right, and Del Mar was behind them.

Down and around and along another straight line next the sands, and up a steep grade whose windings slowed even this brute of a car to a saner pace.
"This is Torrey Pine grade," Cliff informed him.

"It isn't much farther to the next stop.

I've been making time, because from San Diego on we have rougher going.

This is not the most direct route we could have taken, but it's the best, seeing I have to stop in San Diego and complete certain arrangements.