Well when I was employed, my route was pretty much the only road to get there... unless I chose interstate freeways. But even so, there are some longer round about ways I did also take... and on longer summer days, I would vary my route to go these other ways... they are far from direct, more like going to other destinations, and then heading home... one of these destinations was the beach... sometimes my family would meet me there and we would do an evening picnic.

The other route went all around a military air base... so the nicest aspect is that there are few intersections, and traffic simply cannot encroach from the right. This is a long flat route, but it is also made of of 55 and 65MPH roads... not the safest around. But the joy of going flat out on the flats almost outweighed the traffic and speed issues. Again this was way out of the way... sort of like getting to Denver via Chicago from Atlanta. But indeed these routes did relieve some of the drudgery of "the same old route... "