We started this site because we wanted to take an adventure. We wanted to travel across America AND we wanted to do it with our dogs in a way that could overcome the restrictions of hotels, timeshares, restaurants, and all other places that don’t view our dogs as members of our family. We also wanted to see what people, places, and small businesses were out there. We wondered if there were only big box stores and brands in the cities, making them all look the same, or were there still small businesses running on individualism and creativity, unqiue who they were.
While we were planning our trip, our oldest dog, Indiana – “Indie” as we nicknamed him – past away. His determination to live life as usual for more than 3 years after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer (much longer than his Vet and the rest of us thought he had left in his tank) was impressive. He propelled us to continue with our plan and start this blog in his honor, to share the joys of doing things (like travelling) with our dogs, our true free-spirited companions.
Fortunately, in every city and state we visited, we discovered that there are still many small businesses working hard and independent from the grips of big the company attitude and rules. It was exciting!
We hope to bring you some of their stories in this website. Please read and leave your thoughts and comments.