I hadn't done stand-up for about six years: six years' worth, an unflooded, stretching-into-the-distance dry plain of dread.

This area had remained unsettled as it was a broad, dry plain suitable only for cattle ranching.

It's there at the end of the one main street - an oasis of urban cool locked into the middle of these vast dry plains.

The landscape varies from dry plains to high active volcanoes with cliffs rising steeply from the ocean.

They generally locate upon firm dry plains, coated with fine short grass, upon which they feed; for they are no doubt exclusively herbivorous.