i was lucky I never found a tick
Just step off the pavement in Arkansas, Eastern Oklahhoma anywhere and you will get one.
Once I was driving from New Mexico to Arkansas and NEVER got off pavement.
Near Russellville, Ar I stopped to check my load and never got off the pavement. Later I found one large dog tick well buried in the back of my knee. I then realized I had brushed against a small blade of grass at that rest stop. That was all it took.
Deer hunting on the Islands in Bever Lake in NW Ark was hell as we found thousands of small soft bodied ticks dug all over us.