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Seattle to Buffalo with 3 Dogs Day 4: A Tough Minnesota Morning and Long Drive to Wisconsin

6/4/2013

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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!
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Our campsite overlooking the Buffalo River in Minnesota
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Buffalo River sand
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When there's sand, there's digging
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And rolling
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Crossing the Buffalo River on our morning hike
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Day four drive from Buffalo River State Park, Minnesota to Kegonsa State Park, Wisconsin: 502 miles
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:
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A fellow pet area explorer at a rest stop in Wisconsin
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!
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We truly enjoyed hiking along the Buffalo River in Minnesota
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.
6 Comments
Molly the Wally link
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.
Best wishes Molly

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Jackie Bouchard link
6/6/2013 04:34:06 am

Ewww! Ticks and traffic! Two of my most hated things!

The pics are great though. Looks like the pups are having a good time. Sounds like the state parks are friendlier toward doggy visitors than the national parks are!

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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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Ann Staub link
6/6/2013 12:10:53 pm

Eeek! Ticks... I don't think I'd be able to sleep a wink! What a cute little piggy you met!

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emma link
6/8/2013 11:00:40 am

You are the cutest pack! Looks like you were north of my house in MN, though...we have a ton of ticks this year, they are really bad!

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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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