loop 338

If you are someone who commutes daily through our beloved streets, roads and highways of West Texas, I feel for you. I have done it for a very long time and it absolutely does not get any easier, fun or safe. Many of us, depending on our daily route, know which roads to avoid, which ones to take to make the drive a little more smooth and so on and so forth.

For the love of everything do as I say and not as I do when it comes to driving in this area! Oh my gosh. I did it for the second time yesterday and I have zero patience, so there's that. Do not pass go, do not collect $200. When heading into Odessa from Highway 191, if you attempt to take the exit to loop 338, just don't!

As you drive to and from work, school and home every single day, you tend to get into a routine and sometimes could drive your regular route with your eyes closed. Don't do it but still. lol I am on a few different routes everyday but there is one imparticular that I will avoid if possible. For me, it is one of the most dangerous intersections in the 432.

It seems like anywhere you drive these days, in Midland or Odessa, you will come upon road construction in some capacity. Because I commute daily, I run into a lot of detours and long lines and one lane roads because the other is being repaired and so on so forth.

Things that frustrate the crap out of me. Long lines at traffic lights when I don't expect it. That is how it went down this week. With all of the transplants here in the 432 in the last few years, I'm used to a little more traffic than usual, specifically on 42nd st. in Odessa and Andrews Hwy. going into Midland. But this one I did not see coming...

When is the last time you were at the intersection near east loop 338 and Andrews Hwy. (385) in Odessa? It is sometimes part of my commute and for the last few months there have been detours and construction crews all over the place. Things are about to look very different in that area.

Ooooh I love it when new convenience stores hit the 432! Well new to me, because they are new to the road I take on my drive home. For the longest time I have wished for loop 338 in Odessa to have a place for me to stop and grab a quick soda or a snack on my commute home or fill up with gas but there is nothing around that entire loop past 191. Until now!

Help save a life.