by justbeingbing | Mar 31, 2021 | Freedom, Journey, Road trip with your dog, women
The following post is a sneak peek into Bing’s upcoming book, Finding Freedom: The Girl’s Guide to the Open Road. Scheduled for release later this year! Under a fiery mid-July sunset in 2019, I turned east and north out of the forests of West Virginia,...
by justbeingbing | Jul 29, 2019 | Americana, British Cream Golden Retrievers, Colorado Road trip 2019, Freedom, Journey, Lexington Hope 2, Road trip with your dog, Traveling with your dog, White golden retrievers
A blissfully long summer road trip to Dog Heaven, West Virginia – home of miracles, sloppy wet golden kisses and wagging blond puppy tails. While we had unending adventures in our three weeks on the road, this post pauses to tell a tale. Specifically, the...
by justbeingbing | Jul 19, 2019 | Americana, Camping, Colorado Road trip 2019, Freedom, Hiking, hipcamp, Journey, Road trip with your dog, White golden retrievers
All my cross-country driving hadn’t prepared me for the rush of being on top of the world at our hip-camp site in Canon City, Colorado. I am mesmerized as I sit here in front of my roaring campfire, crackling now and again with the occasional spit of rain...
by justbeingbing | Jul 17, 2019 | Americana, British Cream Golden Retrievers, Colorado Road trip 2019, Freedom, Journey, Road trip with your dog, White golden retrievers
I have memories from my adolescence of marathon drives through Nebraska, certain that part of the journey from Pennsylvania to the Tetons on 80 West would never end. Looking back, I wonder how many Nancy Drew books I consumed just during that drive across that one...
by justbeingbing | Jul 14, 2019 | Americana, Camping, Colorado Road trip 2019, hipcamp, Journey, Road trip with your dog, Solo female travel, White golden retrievers, women
For six days at the beginning of July, Lexi the Golden and I traveled westward from Virginia to Colorado. We were past the half-way mark now, and after a lovely day exploring eastern and central Missouri, we were more than ready to call it a day as we approached the...
by justbeingbing | Jul 11, 2019 | Americana, British Cream Golden Retrievers, Colorado Road trip 2019, Freedom, Road trip with your dog, White golden retrievers, women
Missouri lay on the map as a giant question mark. The St. Louis Arch, Kansas City barbecue & the mighty Mississippi were all I knew. For this East Coast girl (PA for the first half of my life, and VA up until now), the “Show Me” state was a relative...
