You will be accompanied as far as the border; thereafter you must find your own way.

At the Tunisian border the next day, we had to wait three hours while someone decided how to process our passports for exit, given that we had no entrance stamps.

He asked to be jetted to borders.

"He (the contact) drove us to a safe house in a Kurdish city not far from the border, " she said.

At last the engine of my car sputtered out on the way to the border.