Take Paws The official pet travel blog of GoPetFriendly.com

Starting Another Road Trip

The Arch in St. Louis

We’ve been at our house in the Poconos for 10 days now and have cabin fever. We tilled our gardens, filed our taxes, canceled our cable TV (yes, really!), did the laundry, and got haircuts. We scrubbed the inside and outside of the Winnebago, but didn’t clean the house. We’ve got itchy travel paws. Our [...]

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And We’re Off!

The conference couch

We’ll, it looks like today is the day we officially start our GoPetFriendly On the Go with Winnebago campaign. I told a few friends, and was tweeting earlier this week, that I thought we would be ready to leave on Friday or Saturday. For those of you who know Amy, of course that meant Friday! [...]

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Taking a Travel Break

So far we’ve traveled about 1,300 miles over 8 days.  Every good (great) road trip needs a break in the action … an opportunity to stay in one place for a couple of nights, put paws up on the coffee table, and enjoy home-cooked kibble. Our road trip included a stopover with family in Newburgh, [...]

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GPF Visits New Animal Shelter in Asheville

A new animal shelter celebrated its grand opening this past Saturday in Asheville, and GoPetFriendly stopped by today to pay a visit and donate some food. Pet Soup is a licensed, “safe-for-life” shelter offering refuge to rescued dogs and cats.  Located at 31 Glendale Avenue, the building is spacious enough to have separate areas for [...]

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Roadtrip Reflections

3936 miles. 2 dogs. 1 Toyota Rav 4.  Should be enough said right there!  But I want to wind up the series of of our very first GoPetFriendly roadtrip with some observations and comments about what we did and saw.  In no particular order: We were constantly amazed by the incredible scenic beauty of the [...]

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Heading to Iowa

As we begin day 12, it’s hard to believe we’re at the halfway point of our roadtrip.  We started our day in La Crosse, WI for an interview with Channel 19 news.  BTW – our newspaper interview with reporter Autumn Grooms of the La Crosse Tribune ran today.  The upside of all this publicity … [...]

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