Not having traveled this route before, I had to do the usual guesswork about junctions, forks in the road, turnoffs.

And if you look at any of the books, you'll see this method of digression, even in Huck Finn — basically it's a trip with digressions, strung off it like beads, beads on a string.

We came to a fork in the road and could not decide which fork we should take.

Every time we follow one path, we soon come across new branches.

How do you turn around a relationship?