I woke from a pretty bad nights sleep (each itch any of us had in the tent meant the light went on and a tick search occurred) to lovely woodland bird songs and a perky collie hovering over me attempting to give me some morning kisses, but he had a tick hanging from his lip. Yuck. Fortunately, our topical tick medicine was doing it's job and this tick was not engorged but almost dead. Day 2 ended with ticks, and day 3 began with ticks. This is a tough region to travel through with three long haired dogs. Needless to say, we did more grooming. Wilhelm also had an attached but dying tick on him. We did enjoy Buffalo River State Park in Minnesota a bit more before leaving the campground. We thoroughly shook and wiped every piece of bedding, avoided the grassland trails and we left way, way later than planned. I was definitely inspired to push on, though, because when filling up the gas tank I realized that we were over half way through our journey East. The West sure is big!
Seattle to Buffalo with 3 Dogs Day 4: A Tough Minnesota Morning and Long Drive to Wisconsin6/4/2013 Typist: Bethany I woke from a pretty bad nights sleep (each itch any of us had in the tent meant the light went on and a tick search occurred) to lovely woodland bird songs and a perky collie hovering over me attempting to give me some morning kisses, but he had a tick hanging from his lip. Yuck. Fortunately, our topical tick medicine was doing it's job and this tick was not engorged but almost dead. Day 2 ended with ticks, and day 3 began with ticks. This is a tough region to travel through with three long haired dogs. Needless to say, we did more grooming. Wilhelm also had an attached but dying tick on him. We did enjoy Buffalo River State Park in Minnesota a bit more before leaving the campground. We thoroughly shook and wiped every piece of bedding, avoided the grassland trails and we left way, way later than planned. I was definitely inspired to push on, though, because when filling up the gas tank I realized that we were over half way through our journey East. The West sure is big! The rest of the day was just driving. I had a creepy-crawly free nap at a rest stop and the dogs were SO incredibly good, patient and quiet, I wanted to scream at times (like while stuck in Minneapolis rush hour traffic) but the dogs constant good attitudes and amazing resilience helped me hold it together. I also considered abandoning our schedule and using the buffer day I had allowed us for arrival on time in New York but Jason and I both agreed it would be best for the dogs to press on and arrive in the Eastern U.S. as scheduled. We pulled into our campsite in Wisconsin way later than we would have liked and way after dark. The only fun thing that happened day four, after leaving Buffalo River State Park was this: What matters is that we did make it to our campsite in Wisconsin and we are all happy to be here. And the best part of all is that we Cascadian Nomads will be having many more fun adventures together, ticks and traffic or not! Please forgive any & all rough spots in this post as it has been done on mobile from the road! We will be reading and enjoying your comments but, due to being on the road, it will be difficult for us to respond right away. Thanks for understanding and for coming along on this great adventure.
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6/6/2013 04:27:02 am
Buffalo River Sand sure looks good for a dig and a sniff and a roll. Glad the ticks were deaded. Have a terrific Thursday.
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6/6/2013 04:34:06 am
Ewww! Ticks and traffic! Two of my most hated things!
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Bethany
6/6/2013 11:23:18 am
I did my research on the state parks we visited but in general, state parks are much more pet friendly than National Parks. State parks just don't get the traffic that National Parks do, which makes me that much happier to support them!
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Bethany
6/14/2013 08:12:27 am
It was such a beautiful time of year to visit your area despite the extraordinary tick season!
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