Ryan and I got up early and went down to Meridian State Park to go "hiking". Hiking in Texas is very different than hiking in the west, because it so flat. There are very few places in Texas that you can go that I would consider to really be a hike, and they are many hours from here. But still, the parks call their trails hiking trails. Meridian is at the top of the hill country – neither of us had ever been there so we figured if it was hilly it would seem to be more like hiking. Well, it wasn't too hilly, but there was a ton of vegetation, you were almost always in the shade, so you felt more like you were in a foresty mountain wilderness than just walking through the desert like it has felt at other state parks here. I really liked it actually. We saw some wildflowers we have never seen before (I should have taken pictures of all of them – but unfortunately didn’t). We also had several fun animal encounters. We saw a tree full of vultures, a mosquito hawk bouncing in mid-air (we couldn’t figure out what it was doing or how it was doing it, but then we saw another one doing the same things so maybe it is normal behavior for them – my best guess is that it is some kind of mating act), we saw a big bunny, a turtle crossing our trail, and a long black snake with yellow strips down its length.
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