Without a doubt, traffic was the worst part of returning to Houston area from Alaska.
A 30 minute drive will suddenly become a 3 hour drive.
Better yet, wait for someone to decide it's a good idea to eat a bowl of noodles with chopsticks while driving.
Tell me about it, I lived in Houston in the early 80’s, and then moved to Alaska.
I know Longview fairly decently, I lived in Marshall just south of it for an oil drilling company in 1984, not a bad place to live, living there is dirt cheap. Wages suck though.