I got into Odessa late last night, and I just have to say that after the end of a long couple days and roughly 10,000 miles of travel, it was so great to get to my apartment and find it exactly as it was described online.

I’ll have a fuller post a little later, but here’s the link with my apartment info:
http://odessaapartmentsrent.com/fsearch/?flat_id=29

Just to answer one of the more immediate questions people probably have, I went the apartment route instead of hotels because apartments generally run about half the price of hotel rooms. And so far, I’m pretty satisfied with my choice.