Trip around the Neighborhood

[graler]

Fishmeister was giving me grief in another thread about no ride reports. Well its usually just to and from work. I thought I would share some of the scenery that I have to deal with everyday. Ho hum.  This is Lake Travis it is a great view just up the road is a place called the Oasis - great sunsets. Its great to see the lake full. Last summer it was very low 65' lower than this. It is on the Colorado River just NW of Austin.

 

[fishmeister]

That's better Graler, finally a mini-ride report. Where are the Texas Brown Tarantulas?
I've been told they know how to open the tank bag zippers.

http://www.poisoncontrol.org/docs/toxic_bites.pdf

[graler]

I saw one just the other evening on a ride. You can spot em croosing the road just like a squirrel only slower.

[TDodge7]

Thank god we don't get those things in Virginia .

[tcoop]

 

That's better Graler, finally a mini-ride report. Where are the Texas Brown Tarantulas?
I've been told they know how to open the tank bag zippers.

http://www.poisoncontrol.org/docs/toxic_bites.pdf

About 25 years ago my wife and I were making a cross country drive. We drove all night and were just out side of El Paso heading east. the sun was just above the horizon and in the distance on the shimmering road we saw some black spots. As we got closer they got bigger, there were thousands of them. We were going about 70 mph and they were so big that I could see the hairs on there legs.  I didn't slow down either. That was one time that I was glad to be in a cage.

[NiteRyder]

The Coarsegold Tarantula Festival

http://www.coarsegoldhistoricvillage.com/Tartantula.html

Fun for all, went last year, if spiders creep you out this is not the place to be. Tarantulas flood the roads every year and makes for quite an eerie scene.

[fishmeister]

I've heard/read about that before. I wonder why such a large group of them are so closely located....

Must be a cave or some undisturbed habitat somewhere around there.

I never knew they ran in packs like the Harley guys. There are similarities tho.....

[flynrider]

About 25 years ago my wife and I were making a cross country drive. We drove all night and were just out side of El Paso heading east. the sun was just above the horizon and in the distance on the shimmering road we saw some black spots. As we got closer they got bigger, there were thousands of them. We were going about 70 mph and they were so big that I could see the hairs on there legs.  I didn't slow down either. That was one time that I was glad to be in a cage.

  Yep.  The great tarantula migration happens every year around there.   I used to work at White Sands Missile Range, just up the road from El Paso.   The MPs used to block US Hwy 70 on the range to let the critters migrate.  After the cars started backing up, they'd sweep the stragglers off the road and open it up again for 15 or 20 min.   It was quite a sight.   I was used to seeing the odd tarantula, but this was thousands of them.  It was pretty creepy looking.  Like some 1950s insect revolt movie