But the busy Saturday afternoon London traffic meant a huge detour.
I took a huge detour through the rolling green countryside and got back without a mishap, but the goal seemed to be discouragement.
"We took a huge detour, ran into a brick wall and fell into a swamp," Gingrich said of his campaign launch.
Some can get around the meter by taking huge and costly detours.
The Oklahoma City National Memorial is only eight blocks from Cathy Coulter's downtown office, yet she detours to avoid passing the huge bronze gates and the 168 chairs symbolizing each person killed in the 1995 bombing here.
The huge Friday market at Carpentras is worth a detour.
Today the torch convoy will make a detour into its paved area, then salute a huge stone plaque which records all the winners of those 1908 Games.
The boy, carrying a big basket of bread, took a detour to jump into the fresh snow, a huge grin on his face, before following in Mom's eyes-straight-ahead-walk-with-a-purpose stride.
But the ripple effects of the collapse could be huge — for commuters, freight haulers, residents and businesses around the bridge on detour routes and for politicians in Olympia, Washington's capital.
It's a huge, ugly thing to cross, and we make the journey longer by doing a 30-minute detour to use the loo at a cafe, the Gran Sometta, which turns out to be closed.
