Definition of "scenic route" []

• A road or path designed to take one past a pleasant view or nice scenery. (noun)
• The long way round, a deliberately slow path. (noun)

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• "I turned in my seat to try to see as much as I still could, but then Roger was turning onto the freeway’s on-ramp, and thankfully not saying anything about the fact that we’d taken the scenic route to get there."