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the ten-year detour home that invented every road trip gone catastrophically wrong
means A long, eventful journey, especially one full of wandering, hardship, and transformation.
from Straight from Homer's epic the Odyssey, named for its hero Odysseus, whose decade-long struggle to sail home from Troy gave us the word. The Greek Odysseia simply meant 'the story of Odysseus,' but the journey was so legendary that his name became shorthand for any epic, winding quest. English borrowed it via Latin in the 19th century to describe travels of his caliber.
return tripTen years sailing what should take weeks
the trickOdysseus told a cyclops his name was Nobody
loyal dogArgos waited twenty years, then died seeing him
word legacyAny epic journey now borrows this name
author mysteryHomer may have been multiple people or none