Just like our mountain roads up here in the Rockies, the 2 mile road to my house is a little rougher and significantly steeper. When living and working in Poland many years ago at weekends I would leave the city and drive into the wilds exploring, trying to avoid the main Military road checks meant taking the back roads, well roads by name only. Up near the Belarus border driving through a wooded area the track suddenly opened up into a wide very straight black topped road way. Quickly I realised it was a runway and hidden in the trees were Russian Mig fighters in their shelters. I managed to get about 100 yds down the runway before the military guards swarmed out and I was detained (not arrested as they told me), it took over 3 hours of explaining and having the film in my camera taken before I was escorted back to Bialystock and then allowed to drive back to Warsaw where I had to report to the Police and British Embassy; the Ambassador was not too pleased.
