circuitous route

Even before the ban, Carse had taken a circuitous route to the England Test team.

Instead of heading up Highland and straight into the inevitable sea of Bowl-bound traffic, our driver took a circuitous route through the hills, emerged onto Cahuenga Boulevard and headed south.

It’s the circuitous route they traveled to reach that spot that is so troublesome.

"So I've gone from 17 to 70 and eventually got here. A long, circuitous route."

Battle lines force the group to take a circuitous route, along which they encounter the terrible, often random violence that has taken hold of the country amid the internecine conflict.