IT'S ALIVE

The rest area doesn't look as creepy in the morning light. The beetles and other insects have dispersed to hide from the day. All of them that is except for the squashed. You get out and look at the bumper of your vehicle. It is covered in dried locust guts. You can only see the bumper in a couple spots. You take a walk to stretch your muscles and to start your day. As you are walking your mom spots something black. It is a fuzzy black. You get a little closer and notice it is another spider. Except this spider isn't a wolf spider, it is larger. It is a tarantula. As you get closer you notice it is actually brown with a tan. It is the Texas Brown Tarantula. They are harmless and very common. It doesn't run like the wolf spiders did last night. It simply just walks, slowly. You get closer and take pictures and a video. If only your uncle were here he would be picking it up. Then after he picked it up he would chase you with it, which you wouldn't want. You make one more loop and come back to see if the spider is still there. It is still calmly walking away as you return to the truck.

You climb back in the vehicle and leave for DFW(Dallas-Fort Worth). As you take off from the rest area you see a great deal of area destroyed by the flooding Texas has endured this year. The grass squashed like a bug with your boot. The paths in what used to be beautiful fields with lushish crops. As you look out you see what is normally a dry river bed flowing with an abundance of water. The water is several feet lower then it was, but it has ruined all of the vegitation in its wake. The more you look the more you see the damage from past tornadoes. The route you have partaken today is traveled every year by multiple tornadoes with little mercy. You start to see more structures as you flow in and out of traffic. Here the freeways dive and curve cross and plow forward with masses of motorists attempting to get to a place more important then you, so they think! As you top a large raise in the freeway you see it.  

You can see the Dallas's skyline. Skyscrapers in their glory reach towards the sun. The sun beats down on the windows. The light is reflected off of the glass windows. It is starting to get hot out already. You drive over a bridge that you drove over a couple weeks ago during the flooding. You look down at the construction equipment below. All of the flood waters have receded. It is dry and some of the equipment has water lines over 10ft high. 

You start back south again and now you're going to Houston, the largest city in Texas. It starts to get dark as you head south. You make it to Huntsville right when the sun drops completely behind the horizon but there is still light. You take you dog for a walk and see some horses. The horses are law enforcement horses. Two are close to the fence. One horse is a white Percheron, the other is a Belgian. They munch on the tall grass ignoring you and your dog. You walk back to the vehicle. It is still 100 degrees out when you climb in bed. And the cold a/c helps you fall asleep.