There used to be several NR members from Texas. OH and I spent many happy summers driving through the States (mostly the West) and went to Texas in 2005 and for much longer in 2006. While there I had a brilliant lesson in teaching a horse to jog. Also to go up and down steep paths, though I myself had aready learned that in Colorado, in the Rocky Mountains.
Texas is very varied. Are you rural or urban? If you are locked down (as we are here in London) maybe you are near a city.
I really took to Quarter horses. But in the UK / Europe it is not the same.