Where might a detour lead?

Where might a detour lead? It is a question often pondered when travelling by car and the bright orange signs announce detour ahead.
Follow the signs. Sometimes it is only a narrow work-around that has been created for this one project. Sometimes the next sign indicates the road narrowing to a single lane and stop lights tell you when you can travel.
Sometimes after stopping, you are led through a working area by a guide truck leading a parade of 20 or more trucks and cars.
In Canada, we say there are two seasons: winter and construction. When we were travelling on Highway 2 across northern Wisconsin, we discovered a whole new area of farmland that took us north of the highway and circled around to the Great Lakes Centre near Ashland.
We travelled slower not knowing where exactly we were headed outside of the compass bearing in the car.
Seventy km later, as we began driving through Wakefield, Mich., the detour signs announced that Highway 28 was closed and to follow the signs on Highway 2. The GPS had indicated the detour would take us to Watersmeet before sending us north to Highway 28.
But the detour turned us north earlier. We drove up the west side of Lake Gogebic running similar to the shoreline of the lake. We marvelled at all the summer homes and year-round camps along the route.
It was a scenic drive that exited about 10 miles from where the detour ran. We had travelled more than 40 miles.
It brought is to the village of Bergland. It is really amazing how many names of towns and villages are duplicated in both Canada and the U.S.
Travel across Wisconsin and Michigan is less expensive than in Ontario. The mileage was better, too.
It wasn’t until we turned south from Sudbury that we visually could see work of road construction. Highway 69 is being totally built anew, moving it around many of the communities that are found along Georgian Bay.
This multi-decade project eventually will have four lanes running almost to Sault Ste. Marie from the 400/401 interchange in Toronto. A huge trail of granite is being carved out of the Canadian Shield to build this extension of Highway 400.
In Toronto, as in many cities, roads are being widened and infrastructure is being replaced, and traffic regularly comes to a complete stop at many traditional cross-city and north-south routes.
Google Maps often will divert you around bottlenecks and many times during the day, different routes will show up as the fastest time in getting to your destination. Those routes will take you through new neighbourhoods and down narrow streets.
It makes travel by car interesting. Sometimes you discover a treasure in a restaurant or store.