Club house, the woods and......Ticks! Aaaarrrgh !

In one of my visits to Hermann( maybe the weekend of my Birthday, can't remember...), I had a chance to go out to the country and run freely as never before. The club house is in the middle of nowhere, amidst the woods where silence and peace reign supreme. A serene fishing pond is surrounded by irregular terrain with some of its margin's lengths lying beneath softly inclined slopes. I couldn't resist indulging in such a magnificent adventure into the woods with my Dad, experiencing different scents along the way, running at full speed, getting all muddy and even drinking water from the little creeks(I think that gave me belly ache the next day, but who cares,I had a blast!).
The only thing I did not like about all this was the amount of ticks that attached themselves to my skin. It hurts!!! I hate ticks, who doesn't?