Animal Rescues / Support
- Save Our Setters: An Irish Setter rescue. Who can not love those beautiful faces?
- Petfinder: The perfect place to find a new best friend.
- The Animal Rescue Site: Click once a day to help out some friends waiting for their fur-ever homes. Or go shopping. They have some great stuff!
- Dog-E-Tag: Digital identification tag. Easily updated and waterproof so your buddy can always find their way home.
- Doghause Designs: Spay/Neuter awareness, plus some awesome quotes!
- Best Friends Animal Society: Largest no-kill haven in the nation. They refuse to believe that homeless animals need to be killed.
- North Carolina Dog Fun Directory: A list of off-leash parks and such all over North Carolina!
- The Haven Friends for Life: Where I met my baby.
Gifts
- Nerdy Shirts: For the nerd in all of us.
- Etsy: Uncommon goods for uncommon people.
- Perpetual Kid: Who doesn’t love toys?
- Shana Logic: Cutsy stuff.
- Femail Creations: This has to be my favorite place to shop for my girlfriends.
Outdoors
- Gorp: Adventure Travel and Recreation website. People are able to post their favorite hikes and trips for others to download into their GPS. Great place to research hiking routes!
- Adventure Women: They stick out because of their annual “Humanitours.” You travel to exotic lands… hike, bike, kayak, etc while participating in humanitarian efforts. They were also the only ones to have an all women’s adventure to Iceland… I hope they bring it back!!
- Adventures in Good Company: Another woman exclusive trip company. Offer a very wide variety of trips. Noteably they have “Culture trips.” The exercise is not as intense, but you are more immersed into the culture of the country you are visiting.
- Adventurous Wench: Yet another all woman trip company. (Seriously, for the single female adventure traveler… this is the only way I’d go.) What set them apart to me was they go to the British Virgin Islands!!
- Women’s Wilderness Institute: I’ve traveled with this company personally. They are INCREDIBLE.
- Backpacking with your Dog: Because they love being out there as much as we do. Fortunately, someone did all the research about it so we wouldn’t have to.
- Moosejaw: Once you find a place to go, you need the gear! For everything you buy you get “points.” Points = free stuff.
- NOLS: National Outdoor Leadership School. Teaching you everything you need to know about being out there and taking people with you.
- Maryjane’s Outpost: Food, jobs, etc for the outdoors person. She even started her own kind of organic trail food!
Entertainment
- FD’s Flicker Toys: On BigHugeLabs.com. They have some awesome stuff to play around with!
- Holly Azzara: Bestest Tattoo Artist in the world….
- Geekologie: When you need to feel a little less… nerdy?
