Tarantulas! Big black and white hairy ones crawling across the road! I saw about 4 or 5, and finally managed to find one where there were no cars coming, and that was crawling slowly enough that it hadn't vanished by the time we got back to where we'd seen it. Dad took a picture and we continued on down the road.
Also fields and fields and FIELDS full of oil wells. (Are they called derricks when it is just one of those double-hammer-headed creations that go in slow, incessant circles?) I've seen them before, of course, but never in such profusion! It was like looking at a herd of strange, mechanical, and somewhat standoffish cows.
Speaking of cows... whilst still in TX, I noticed that we were driving through acre after acre of unhindered, uninhabited, lushly growing grass... and here and there were tiny little fences enclosing no grass at all, yet thickly clotted with cows.
What's wrong with this picture???
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