  Yeah... that didn't work. My most recent attempt to escape Ann Arbor didn't work either. If you'll kindly note a comparison between yesterday's plan of attack and todays: My new route ran into additional construction when I discovered that Textile road was under construction and closed to traffic (or at least I /think/ it was Textile road).
The alternate route for traffic took me into even more backups as I turned onto Ellsworth. Then, once I escaped traffic, I ran into a block of unpaved (dirt) road riddled with potholes. Sadly I did not realize how bad the potholes were until I hit the first gigantic one at the end of the paved road.
My poor-poor new car. >. So scratch that idea. I also hit traffic again a few minutes back on the main path. Ugh. So my new plan of attack #2 is to take the highlighted blue road. (starting destination noted by the purple blob and I'm heading in the direction denoted by the purple arrow). I'm going to ditch my way in line for the first construction area and then I'm thinking that the little red zone that I'll be heading through (which the signs SAY is a closed road) is actually just a 'closed for thru traffic' road.
We'll see. I'll probably just end up getting lost in a housing district again. :( Then I'm still going to get stuck in a couple of traffic jams, but at least they're more like 5-minute traffic jams and not the 10-15 minute traffic jams. 
