As we continue our quest to walk the off-road portions of the Eastern Trail and East Coast Greenway, we visited the South Portland Greenbelt Walkway. The Greenbelt Walkway is the eastern end of the Eastern Trail, and is also part of the route for the East Coast Greenway that goes from one Florida to Maine. […]
Before heading out for a day of sand and surf, be sure to know the dog beach rules! Here is a list of Dog Friendly Beaches, with the dates and times dogs are allowed on beaches in New Hampshire and Maine during the 2022 Summer Season. For more information please click on the highlighted name. […]
You may have heard that one of the dresses Judy Garland wore in the Wizard of Oz is up for auction. The dress was recently found in a box at The Catholic University of America in Washington D.C., after it went missing sometime in the 1980s. What you may not know is that iconic gingham […]
Dogs, do you enjoy going to the beach? Do you want to continue to be welcomed at Maine beaches? Then we all must do our part to protect the Piping Plovers! Piping Plovers are the small birds seen flitting across the shoreline. They nest above the high water mark, in the dry sandy areas, often […]
Tomorrow is National Walking Day, so let’s take a stroll down a few of our favorite rail trails. Asa and I love rail trails because they tend to be flat and easy on the paws; straight so you can see everything ahead and behind you, with no surprises; and wide so that even on a […]
Recently I shared a “then and now” photo of me at Fort Foster in Kittery Maine. This park is special because it is the first place Mom and Dad took each of us as puppies, and we have had many adventures there since then. However, in recent years we stopped going there. Although there is […]
Today, March 15, 2022, marks the 202nd anniversary of Maine becoming the 23rd state in the United States. Although the history of Maine goes back much farther than 200 years, it wasn’t until March 15, 1820 that it seceded from Massachusetts to become its own state. At that time the legislators chose the state motto […]
Welcome to the 5th Annual Golden Tail Wags Awards, where we celebrate the weird and wonderful things we saw while exploring Dog Friendly Places. However, unlike other award shows where you get celebrity hosts, you get us, Chuck Billy and Asa, your intrepid explorers with active imaginations! Rest assured that these awards are not your […]
The Unidentified Floating Object has landed again in Maine! I first reported about this mysterious ice disk appearing in the Presumpscot River in Westbrook, Maine in 2019. Well now it is back almost 3 years to the day! Local meteorologists would like you to believe that this Unidentified Floating Object is simply a natural phenomenon […]
Mother Nature, I know we’re all nostalgic for the “good old days,” before the pandemic. However, bringing back below freezing temperatures not felt here in Maine since 2018, is not helping. No one wants to relive these bone chilling temperatures, with this morning’s subzero windchill making it “feel like” between -20 to -35ºF in Maine. […]
