Vacations with Maggie are always interested ordeals. I learned early on that staying in a kennel is not an option for her. As a pound puppy, Maggie had to be spayed at an early age. When I returned to the pound for this to happen, she climbed so far in the back window that it almost took a crowbar to get her out.
There was another occasion that made me think boarding Maggie was not the best possible option. It was my bad to decide to crate train Maggie without fulling studying the methods, but it was definitely Maggie's bad to pull the throw rug up into the crate in order to chew on it and then bend the bars in order to escape. Again, this was not the dog to send to a kennel for the weekend.
So Maggie has two options. She can either travel with me or she can stay at my parents' house. Based on experience, the latter is definitely the best option. You see, Maggie has extreme separation issues. I've taken her to friends' apartments before, but as soon as we went out for dinner or somewhere else that Maggie could not go, she found something to tear up. We once left her in a bathroom (not a small room) and she tried to claw her way out the door. Even at my parents' house, where she is most comfortable, she once chewed apart several of the vertical blinds in order to see out the window. Severe separation issues.
So Maggie has been on some good vacations. We've spent the day on the Isle of Palms; we've spent the weekend in the mountains. No matter where she goes, Maggie loves to explore everything around her. She is always nose to the ground and petal to the metal. Even at thirteen, no stone is left unturned when Maggie gets to visit a new place. She loves going on vacation and even sometimes rides in the front seat to help navigate. 
