Sacramento to Orlando in 30 days

**mdavis501** · 10-04-2007, 02:45 PM

My wife and I are planning a long road trip, our first. I enjoy learning from other's experiences as I feel it is one of the best ways to not repeat mistakes. I fully realize that much of the input is opinion, but I'm sure there are some hard learned "lessons" by the more experienced road travelers. So here is our rough plan: Sacramento, California to Orlando, Fla and back with lots of visits during the trip. Timeframe: June 2008 Lenght of Trip: 30 days (give or take a few)
Rough breakdown: 2 weeks to Florida, Visit there for 3 days, and 2 weeks back.
Cities to visit: Phoenix and surrounding area(2-3days), New Orleans (2-3 days) Other??

Our first question: Is this even feasible to take your small travel-friendly (loves it actually) dog and try to stay in dog-friendly hotels???

And a follow-up to question 1: If you opt not to take your dog, would it be better to just take longer going and then fly home?

Next question is of course: Where would you stop along the way?

Thanks for your input. Mike

**Midwest Michael** · 10-04-2007, 03:34 PM

Welcome to the RTA forum!

If your dog loves to travel, bring him along! Finding places to stay with your dog should only be a minor inconvience, and it will be a lot better than being away from him for a month.

The Pets Section of the RTA Planning section has an excellent guidebook for pet friendly hotels. This article also has some good information for traveling with a pet.

You'll have plenty of time to do a lot of different things during your trip, and really narrowing it down will be a challenge. I think I'd hit the Grand Canyon before going down to I-10 and following that across one way, but take a more northerly route, like I-70 for your trip back home.