So I went camping last year in Arkansas…

and there was a big effing cottonmouth there. I really want to go this year,
but now I am scared. Lol! Should I? Arkansas is snakey. Dog on one side of my home was killed by a copperhead last year. Guy a couple acres down the other side lost his horse to a copperhead bite to the nose (they are also "water snakes" although they can live on land easily, too)..

There are skunks and raccoons and bears and armadillos and possums, and more, and ticks and fleas and chiggars and mosquitoes and horseflies and black biting flies…

Should I go? This may be the last possible year for me with my sucky illness. Last year I didn't know as much…ignorance is bliss!