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This Stretch of Texas Built the World We Live In
In the Permian Basin there’s a joke about Midland-Odessa: It’s where God sat while he created the rest of the earth. I laughed when an oil worker told it to me, but a few days later I’d find myself lying on hot sand just outside Odessa, staring up at a monstrous black pump jack against a blue sky and wondering if God were still here, cranking away at creation from his West Texas work stool.You may not think of the stretch of Interstate 20 between Abilene and Midland-Odessa as a drive worth making. Or perhaps you’re one of the thousands of Texans who drives it for work, and you’re wondering why I’ve (somewhat) willingly found myself here. It’s a road we take for granted and…The post This Stretch of Texas Built the World We Live In appeared first on Texas Monthly.