For many of us, summer travel season is just around the corner. Leaving your animal companion safe and comfortable at home while you travel doesn't have to mean checking your loved one into a kennel, cattery, or veterinarian's office, where animals often become stressed, frightened, ill, or even hurt or lost. Ideally, "safe at home" means finding the right companion-animal …

Summer is just around the corner, and if you're like me, you're already making vacation plans and a list of what to pack. Wherever our travels take us, if we're getting there by air, one "item" that never belongs on our list is our animal companions.

A recent analysis by a San Francisco–area TV station found that 302 animals …

When I took my first road trip in 1989, Miami Beach, Florida, had not yet been anointed a global hotspot and Lincoln Road was years from its current fame as a glitzy pedestrian mall anchoring the north side of South Beach.

But here you could find inspired cooking at little places such as the …

Bicycling north of Miami's beaches, I found a bit of paradise in an unlikely place. With a row of modern white skyscrapers girding its shoreline, Sunny Isles Beach offers an array of amusements, along with a welcoming attitude toward vegans and vacationers who travel with companion animals.

The compact barrier island just north of Miami …

Falling leaves and dropping temperatures are a sure sign that the frigid gray days of winter will soon be upon us. But thanks to HumaneTrip.com, your escape from the coming chill may be only a mouse click away!

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So you don't live on the Upper East Side. Perhaps you live in small-town America. Instead of skyscrapers and specialty restaurants on every corner, you have lush green fields and a Piggly Wiggly. But just because you can't choose between gallery openings every weekend, that doesn't mean that you can't still eat like city folk. …