I’d steer clear of dusty roads. There was a WWII bomber training base out West of Odessa, Texas just outside Pyote called the Rattlesnake Bomber base. There area was full of rattlers. On cool evenings and days the road from Grand Falls, Texas back to Pyote would be lined with snakes getting warmed by the asphalt.
I’ve put in allot of wells in that area, you can still find dummy bombs from time to time. The old CONOCO lease had a bunch of them outside their office.