Why twirling?

Why did I head this day with "Twirling, twirling, and twirling"? Because this is the route I drove today:

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If I had stayed in Sioux Falls last night, and gone directly to St. Paul, it would have only taken me four hours of driving, instead of eleven. Of course, I wouldn't have seen yet another sprawling plains city (Fargo), met the nice guy in the coffee shop, or seen Bemidji or any of northern Minnesota, so I'm glad I did what I did. But on a map, it looks like I was traveling in a circle.

Now that I know how to embed Google Maps, I'm going back to my old postings and adding maps at the end of them.