Kevin -

I was reading thru one of your reports in the book (Hunter's Island, maybe) and you described an embedded tick or 2, and you got a little freaky...

What kind of tick was it?

I've had plenty of ticks, but I never did see the one that gave me lymes disease a few years ago (not in the canoe country - NW Wisconsin).   I haven't heard anything definitive about wood ticks carrying lymes - so I've no reason to believe it wasn't a deer tick. Supposedly they need to be embedded for a couple days before the lymes passes into you.

There's a general risk of infection from any embedded tick byte, but if its a wood tick and it hasn't been there too long, shouldn't be that big of a deal.