Family travel, camping adventures, pet-friendly cabins, road trips, and vacation rentals—all with our miniature schnauzer by our side.
We’re a family of three from South Carolina who love exploring new destinations with our miniature schnauzer. Whether we’re camping in our travel trailer, staying in a mountain cabin, or taking a road trip, we share our experiences to help other families travel confidently with their dogs. We also perform research on additional locations and items that may be helpful.
Based in South Carolina, we love exploring the Carolinas, Georgia, mountain towns, campgrounds, vacation rentals, and dog-friendly destinations throughout the Southeast.
Meet Our Travel Companion
🐾 Our Miniature Schnauzer
Our miniature schnauzer loves hiking trails, exploring campgrounds, relaxing in mountain cabins, and joining us on family road trips. She inspires many of the tips and recommendations you’ll find throughout this blog.
Why Travelers and a Schnauzer?
We’re not a general travel directory. Travelers and a Schnauzer is built around the way our family actually travels—with our Miniature Schnauzer along for the adventure. We share lessons from our camping trips, road trips, vacation rentals, and destinations we’ve explored, along with carefully researched information for places we’re still planning to visit.
What you’ll find here:
- Firsthand family travel experiences
- Dog-friendly destination guides
- Travel trailer lessons we’ve learned
- Vacation rental tips based on how we actually book
- Practical dog travel advice
- Carefully researched destination information
Featured Categories
🏕️ Camping
Travel trailer tips, campground planning advice, packing lists, and camping with dogs.
🚗 Road Trips
Road trip planning, travel essentials, scenic stops, and family travel tips.
🏡 Vacation Rentals
Pet-friendly cabins, VRBO reviews, rental checklists, and booking tips.
🐾 Dog-Friendly Destinations
Dog-friendly places we’ve visited with our schnauzer, plus carefully researched destinations we’re considering for future trips.
✈️ Travel Tips
Packing guides, travel checklists, and helpful planning resources.
Latest Posts
- The Ultimate Guide to Traveling With a Dog
Some of our favorite family memories include four passengers instead of three. Angel, our Miniature Schnauzer, is part of our travel plans from the beginning. Whether we’re heading to the Blue Ridge Mountains, staying in a vacation rental, or taking our travel trailer to a campground, we plan the trip around bringing her with us.… Read more: The Ultimate Guide to Traveling With a Dog - Full Hookup vs. Dry Camping: What Works Best for Our Family
Camping gives families several ways to set up their RV, from campsites with water, electricity, and sewer connections to sites with no utilities at all. Although each option has advantages, we have learned that full hookups work best for our family. We have stayed at a campsite with partial hookups for a weekend. We managed… Read more: Full Hookup vs. Dry Camping: What Works Best for Our Family - How We Choose the Best Campsite at a Campground
Choosing the campground is only the first part of making a reservation. We still have to select an individual campsite that can accommodate our travel trailer, our truck, our family, and Angel. A site can look perfectly adequate on a campground map but feel very different when we arrive. Trees may interfere with the slides,… Read more: How We Choose the Best Campsite at a Campground - Campground Departure Routine: What We Check Before Leaving
Leaving a campground takes more than hitching up our travel trailer and pulling away. Over time, we’ve developed a campground departure routine that helps us work through the inside, hookups, hitch, and final campsite checks without rushing. One part of that routine came from experience. We’ve forgotten a few leveling blocks before, so now we… Read more: Campground Departure Routine: What We Check Before Leaving - How We Plan Road Trip Stops With Kids and a Dog: Fuel, Rest & Scenic Breaks
Road trips are much more enjoyable for our family when we do not treat every stop as an interruption. With our family of three and Angel traveling together, those breaks are part of how we keep everyone comfortable and prevent the drive from becoming exhausting. We generally plan to stop about every two to three… Read more: How We Plan Road Trip Stops With Kids and a Dog: Fuel, Rest & Scenic Breaks
Start Here
If you’re new to our blog, these are great places to start:
- Family Road Trip Packing Checklist: Everything We Bring for Stress-Free Travel
- What We Look for in a Pet-Friendly VRBO
- Traveling With a Schnauzer: Why They’re Great Adventure Dogs
- Rainy Day Activities While Camping With a Dog
Planning Your Next Adventure?
Whether you’re looking for dog-friendly vacation rentals, camping tips, road trip ideas, or family travel inspiration, we’ve got you covered.