tracert question...two hops on the same address?

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I was just messing around, pinging and tracing addresses in my "neighborhood" WAN when I came across this:
Anybody know what would cause this? I've never seen it before and I'm a newb.
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Tracing route to 71.197.148.10 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 <1 ms <1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 13 ms 11 ms 18 ms 73.98.10.1
3 21 ms 18 ms 19 ms 71.197.148.10
4 18 ms 17 ms 17 ms 71.197.148.10
Trace complete.
Anybody know what would cause this? I've never seen it before and I'm a newb.
++Rep for insight
WGU B.S. Information Technology (Completed January 2013)
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Source: Tracert returns same IP address two or three times
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