Spider-gazing causes cyclist crash

A tarantula crossing the road would probably cause me to wreck regardless.  A small spider dropped onto my dash last week and I swerved about 5 feet off the road trying to kill it....

Anybody else hate spiders???  (and I don't care if they eat other bugs...so there!)

Wide shoulders :-)    (seriously)

Oh, man...check out my album...."my Pictures" and you will see the HUGE grasshopper that caused my one and only crash.  I had unclipped and went to put my right foot down right where this giant grasshopper was...hesitated and tried to put the other foot down, but yeh, it was still clipped.

Bloody and tired, about a mile later I hit a live armadillo...freaked us both out.  See album.  Wish I could link it, but I'm lame. 

Related:  I was also just getting a bike out from under my house and got into a nest of spiders...they attacked my quad and now I am on round 2 of antibiotics.  Ah, the joys of swamp life.

I think it's really cool to see creatures out in the wild, doing their thing.  I'd say 98% of all animals I've seen over the course of my lifetime have been domesticated or caged in some way.  Even birds living in an urban setting, IMO, have been affected by the presence of humans.

I'm always excited to see foxes and cayotes and other wild animals, out doing wild animal things. 

And tarantulas aren't critters you usually see, or even think of seeing, in the wild.  I guess I had a mindset that they only lived in far-away places, and that's what made them an "exotic" pet.  Cool to think they live near me.  Well... not too near me, thank heavens.