During the summer road crews are everywhere. I guess the Department of Transportation figures the traffic will be disrupted less when school is out. Maybe so. I don’t have children in school anymore so I’m not out on the road when kids are going to school.
I do know that taking three detours to travel the nine miles between my house and my office disrupts my traffic.
This road block is at the entrance to my subdivision. Usually I make a right hand turn. Even with my handy 4-wheel drive Jeep I can’t negotiate through the construction. The workers stop me during the day. Huge graders and back hoes placed strategically behind the signs stop me at night, and on the weekends.
So, I’m forced to detour west to travel east to my office. Which means going north before I can get headed in the right direction – east.
About three miles up the road there’s another road crew in front of the high school. I’m forced to go east; and yet south of where I need to be to get to my office which is in an easterly direction. East -north-west-north detours finally get me to Post Oak Tritt. My office is on the corner of Post Oak Tritt and Johnson Ferry.
Yay! I’m finally on the right road traveling in the right direction. But… are you kidding me? Striped orange barricades ahead! (Usually I really like orange.) This time I’m forced to travel northeast before I turn south to arrive at my office in the east.
There are other road blocks, too. They don’t have big orange stripes or road equipment though.
Instead, it’s all the techie stuff I piddle with on the road to getting something written here. I can spend more time researching an easy way to write than it takes to write what ends up on this page. Detours of my own making.
Wonder if this easy solution is gonna work as well as working at home instead of the office…
