Parker was infested with them. Back then they got in the house and the kids played all along that area so they were open game for us as well.
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I learned. Shake out your boots before you put them on. Scorpions love to hide in them. We used to get an all Orange tarantula in Phoenix AZ 30 plus years ago. They would run out on the highway to get the heat and would get run over by the cars by the thousands. The highway sections would be all orange from the masses. i believe that the highways got most of them to near extinction because I do not see that anymore for many years. I think tarantulas are the most beautiful spiders. I had two orange knees that lived for over a decade.Luckily, I've never seen a spider that big in the wild. The biggest I've seen in the wild were Black and in the woods of North Western AL. area, No clue what they were, usually around logs when I've seen them.
I originally lived in Ohio, The spiders I see running around at night are huge here compared to Ohio. We've killed Black widows those are common here, and we still get scorpions in the house all the time(just little things here). We probably kill at least 3 a week or more in the house. Usually after a rain, they seem to come in more.
But nothing like you guys have west!!
So are the wolf spiders running all over the place at night. Those get pretty big, but nothing like what you guys have out that way. Some one has been watching too much Bilbo BagginsI keep trying to figure out where they are coming in at. But they are small so I guess they could come in about anywhere. Usually they follow the edge of the carpets around the walls, every once in a while they will be out in the middle of the floor, usually, but not always on our first floor. I got use to shaking the shoes out, along with turning on a light at night so I don't step on one. I guess it's nothing more than like a bee sting.
Just fairly new to me.
We were camping, I shined a LED light down through the woods....All you see are spider eyes!
Well? that night anyhow! If you go in a real dark woods and try it? They are all over the place and easier to see than in a neighborhood or other area with a lot of background light... We found out by just shining a light around when camping. I've never seen it before this summer until we started using the brighter LED lights. It doesn't even have to be eye level like they are explaining in the video, just shine it around, You'll see them. 
on mexico trip - problem was my wet boots were behind it and I could not get them - luckily I had spare pair in room
