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  • Dog-Friendly Travel

    In the not too distant past, there were few places that allowed travellers to bring their dogs. But that is changing. Now you can find dog-friendly hotels, AirBnBs, and occasional timeshares offering no worry travel with your dog! However, for most travel vendors, dogs and pets are not the main focus.

    Typical Travel Vendors

    Most travel sites, such as Travelocity, now inlclude a “dog-friendly filter” for locating places you might travel with your pet.

    Travelocity Pet Friendly filter
    Travelocity Pet Friendly filter

    This search returned 300 results .

    Travelocity-pet-300-results
    Travelocity-pet-300-results

    But many listings indicate only service dogs are allowed. Without the training and without paperwork, no dog.

    Look for the details in the search results.

    Pet-friencly details on Travelocity search
    Travelocity-pet-details

    Pet-Centric Travel Vendors

    There is an uptick in quality search results when you deal with travel vendors who are pet-centric. An example, is BringFido.com.

    Bring Fido specializes in travel resources for dog travellers. Visit BringFido.com to search on all sorts of options.

    BringFido.com
    Bringfido.com
    BringFido.com website


    Bringfido.com

    This site offers a lot of amenities for the dog traveler, from pet-friendly hotels to restauarants, events to services. You can search for places across the country and apparently worldwide.

    Search options
    Many dog-friendly options

    Search for Hotels, AirBnBs, and More

    It’s all about your pet and finding those pet-friendly places. Use the various filters to search on type of places to stay and eat, different events and services, pet policies, and ratings.

    Search filters
    Search filters

    Another site about pet-friendly travel is GoPetFriendly. And there are several articles about pet-travel activities, resorts, and locations. It’s great for people who want to travel with their pets. Check them out. Have fun with no worry! Let us know how you make out! Don’t forget to check out dog-friendly beaches!

  • Tombstone, Az – A Throwback to the Wild, Wild West

    If you’ve never been to Tombstone, Arizona, it is worth the trip, particularly if you, like me, grew up on a good ration of cowboy TV shows with gunslingers and bandits, gamblers, and heroes like Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday. Personally, I am not usually interested in shopping, I’d rather look at the history and what remains of the town. However, in Tombstone, you can find whatever floats your boat.

    From Saloons and Gambling Halls to Theaters and Brothels

    Tombstone is loaded with historical and shopping opportunities. Walk through the old town and you will quickly get a good flavor of the wild West way of living back in the 1800s. There are many original buildings, a variety of tours, as well as shops for everything western you might want to purchase.

    There are several people in period dress that hawk their wares or announce upcoming tours and events, such as The Bird Cage Theater (opened 1881), one of the local mines, and the Tombstone Court House.

    Bird Cage Theater
    About the Bird Cage Theater

    There are also staged gunfights in the streets. Amazingly, along the boardwalk of one of the saloons the town lists the demise of many real-life gunfighters.

    I stopped by the Epitaph Newspaper museum, which includes a lot of historical printing equipment and photos. The docent there provided interesting history about the paper and times. The Epitaph is the longest running newspaper in Arizona (they still publish a newspaper once a month to which you can subscribe to read historical accounts of one of the West’s wildest mining towns).

    Docent Bert Webster at the Epitaph Newspaper Museum

    Stop by and experience some history of what the West was like over a century ago and send us your thoughts about this historical town. Or, tell us what’s your favorite Western factoid, or who you would’ve loved to meet and why?