Our Favorite Pet-Friendly Roadside Motels

Once upon a time, city streets were lined with the bright and flashy neon of motel signs. The bigger and more elaborate the sign, the more likely the chance of catching the attention of the passing traveler. Sadly, many of these roadside motels and their neon signs have been left to deteriorate, met with the…

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Get Your Sniffs: Finley’s Travels on Route 66

For more than a decade, we’d dreamed of getting our kicks on Route 66. With a month set aside to follow our dreams and travel the route last fall, we couldn’t imagine taking the trip without our dog, Finley. Over the last two years, Finley has traveled more than 20,000 miles through 36 states with us,…

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Paint On, Drop In, Pig Out: Route 66 in Texas

Mention the Texas Panhandle and most people will likely envision wind sweeping across wide open fields of, well, nothing. Life on the Llano Estacado, or the Staked Plains, is not for the meek, with hot summers, cold winters, little rainfall, tornadoes, and dust storms. Constructed following the path of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific…

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Tin Sheets on 66 Pics: Carthage, MO to McLean, TX

From Missouri, Route 66 crosses into Kansas, which has just 13 miles of the famed road but lots to see in that short span. We enjoyed a step back in lunchtime with wax paper wrapped sandwiches, checked out numerous restored service stations, and crossed some of the most impressive bridges we’ve ever seen. Check out the gallery of…

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