I went on a geology field trip outside a town in far west Texas after a hard rain. We were driving down the highway and the tarantulas were all over the highway drying out. Kind of like those crabs spawning in the south pacific islands. They were just smashed spots on the road from all the cars running them over. We pulled over and a fellow student let one crawl up his arm. Freaked me out, told him to get that thing away from me.
I hate spiders, especially big hairy ones.