Jen is the Chief Storyteller and Photographer for the Long Haul Trekkers. Born with the travel bug, she has lived in Spain, Chile, and New Zealand. When she’s not galavanting around the world by bicycle, she is running long distances in the woods, exploring nature, or whipping up delicious vegan meals. She is always planning her next adventure.
This post is part of the Wednesday Blog Hop series orchestrated by Chewy.com and is sponsored content. All opinions remain my own. I didn’t always take great pictures of my dog out in the wilderness. Quite the contrary. Before Instagram came along, I’d lug my heavy camera around on[...]
Sora’s cancer story is long, frustrating, and also fortunate, in many ways, given that she is still with us today and otherwise healthy. We first noticed her cancer in 2015 and it’s come back four times since. We have talked about it in bits and pieces as it happens on social media, but[...]
Let’s face it flying with a dog can be difficult and flying internationally with a dog, even more so. It’s not fun, it’s a lot of work, and it’s stressful for both human and the furry friend. But flying with a dog doesn’t have to be painful. While this article focuses[...]
The first time we flew with Sora, we knew to ask a few important questions about flying with a large dog, but since then, we’ve learned there are several more that we need to ask before we book a flight with her. Many of the questions listed below can be easily found in an airline’s pet[...]
One reason we chose to adopt Laila is because she was destined for life as a street dog. Like many countries throughout the world, (most, if we’re being realistic) animals are not treated the same way as they are in places like the US or Europe. Throughout our journey, we fell in[...]
We have camped so many nights in our tent, that sometimes it feels more comfortable than our own bed. Our gear is always ready to go at a moment’s notice for any last-minute camping adventures. Even Sora has her own dog camping gear bin filled with the essential gear we need to take her[...]
Flying with a dog seems kinda messy these days. You may have heard about the recent fiascos involving pets, courtesy of United Airlines. These nightmare stories are certainly terrifying, but the fact is that people fly with their dogs all the time—both in cargo and in cabin, and most of[...]
Portland boasts 33 dog parks, leading the nation in dog park per capita ratio (that comes to 5.5 off-leash dog areas per 100,000 residents!), the City of Roses caters to its four-legged pals. With plenty of dog-friendly restaurants, patios, and breweries, several hotels, and natural areas[...]
If you didn’t already realize, we take Sora with us just about everywhere we go. The trouble always comes during the colder months, when our favorite restaurant patios are closed and there are few indoor places we can bring Sora along. I thought I was privy to all the dog-friendly places[...]
I remember when I was little, my parents had a magnet on the refrigerator that said “If anything can go wrong, it will. Murphy’s Law.” They may even still have it. I didn’t really understand what it meant at the time, but I have since discovered it’s true meaning. Murphy’s Law always[...]
There were days toward the end of South America that brought me to tears, as I heaved my bike up and over the Andes at elevation, shuffling each and every step up, up, up to seemingly no peak. I would push my 70 lb load with my entire body, blisters forming on my heels, wanting only to[...]
I’ve recently become a full on snow person. Having spent this winter in the Pacific Northwest with a relatively flexible schedule this year, I sought out opportunities to play in the snow. Sora and I went snowshoeing every chance we had. We found frozen waterfalls and gained confidence[...]
Unequivocally, one of the most heated topics in the hiking with dogs world relates to off-leash users. All too often, we encounter a dog on the trail whose human is nowhere in sight, or oblivious, or comatose. The dog may or may not be aggressive, but he’s interrupting our activity to[...]
Every year, GoPetFriendly.com hosts the Pet Blogger Challenge and we enjoyed participating so much last year that we’re excited to be joining again in 2018. Similar to our most recent post highlighting our adventures from 2017, this challenge asks pet bloggers to look back into their[...]
While 2017 ended our two-year bicycle journey that began in Oslo, Norway and ended in Medellín, Colombia, it by no means meant the end of our adventures. I try to stress that adventure doesn’t have to mean putting your dog on a plane, flying across the Atlantic, and cycling across 24[...]
In November, we joined our friend Jessica and her dog Gretel for a 9-day 4,000-mile road trip to join some of our Instagram dog pals and their humans for an epic camping and hiking adventure in Arizona. We had been planning this meetup for months and it kept growing as we neared the date[...]
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