Bronze Listings include a link to your website and/or email, street address, phone number and description, at $15.00 per year.

Gold Listings are 500x200 pixel banner ads which can be placed anywhere within the site, other than the front page, and will be placed at the top of that page. The cost is $50.00 per year

PLATINUM - Your own website hosted by BarknBridle.Com. You can have 4 pages, photos, a logo, map and text information. Your website address would be something like: http://www.barknbridle.com/yourname. The cost is only $100 per year. No set up fee, no monthly fees. Contact us for more information.

Content pages, where you provide the content information...for example a page that explains how to choose a Boarding Kennel for your pet when you are traveling....are $75.00 per year. Within this page, you may link to your website(s) as many times as you like. The only requirement is that the page conforms to the look of Bark 'n Bridle and links back to the Bark 'n Bridle website.

Classified advertising is available for $10 for the first 25 words and $.25 per word for additional words. Ads may contain links to websites and/or email. Classified ads will remain active for 60 days. Websites & Domains Please visit our main site for web design and hosting options, beginning at $135.00 per year.

Bark 'n Bridle reserves the right and has complete discretion to refuse any listing that does not conform to our content or is unacceptable based upon legal, social, professional, and ethical considerations.

ABOUT US

Formerly Cruising America, we are now The Michaels Group, and we continue to invite readers to travel with us as we explore new pathways in life and new adventures in this amazing country of ours with our new gateway - A WINDING ROAD.

Publishers of many online Internet guides for travel and business, we once roamed the interstate highways and the back roads, reporting on the people, places and events of our world. Based in Wyoming, but living fulltime (along with our chocolate cocker spaniel, Lexxus), in or 22-foot motorhome, The Eagle II, we conducted tours throughout the country. The tours include reviews of bed & breakfast inns, RV parks, restaurants, events, and much more. Entire communities have participated in showing off the best they have to offer to the travelers. During each tour, we hand out thousands of business cards, spend long hours promoting our clients' businesses and speaking with the many folks who wanted to know....."What is Cruising America?"



But changes are always happening....so read on and find out what's happening now!

January, 2008, ushers in the start of our 12th year in the website design & hosting business and as travel writers and photographers. While working at our "day jobs" in 1996, we produced an online newspaper in Casper, Wyoming, to pass along the good news from our hometown. Our efforts included articles about teachers who received special recognition or an Eagle Scout who had won an award. We reported on a local elementary school "50's Sock Hop" and a high school presentation of Holocaust vignettes.

After being contacted by a local bed & breakfast inn regarding website design & hosting, we embarked on a new part time career. What started as a long-range plan to be self-employed and travel as fulltime RVers, "perhaps in 5 years or so", became a reality much sooner than expected. By June, 1998, we were completely mobile. Traveling with 2 Gateway laptop computers, a Compaq desktop computer, 2 Sony Mavica digital cameras and all the necessary office equipment to produce our sites "on the road", we started off on our adventures.

From a customer database of 2 in January of 1997, to a current roster of over 8,000 clients, we attribute our success to honesty, quick response to our clients' needs and by doing our best to live by the philosophy of "The Bridge Builder" by Will Allen Dromgoole, building "bridges" to make the path a little easier for the next person who comes along.

On our sites, we offer services to the community at large with free listings which help to promote our clients. As we visit with small business owners, we are always willing to make suggestions about Internet advertising and website design & promotion. We enjoy sharing information with fellow travelers interested in a mobile lifestyle, explaining how we got started and maintained our business while we were traveling fulltime in our motorhome.

We have posted online information, reviews and photos of hundreds of businesses and events. The reviews include everything from 2-room bed & breakfast inns and 15-room country inns.... to a single RV hookup site on the oceanfront and 500-site RV resorts....to small community events and the Woodstock '99 Festival....to cozy, family-style restaurants and 5-star dining experiences......to books and gourmet food products.
Our tours have included visits and reviews in the continental US, Canada, the Dominican Republic and Italy!

We've experienced what this great country has to offer at a time in our lives when most folks are punching a time clock every day and planning to travel when they retire. We will never be millionaires, but we have a great lifestyle! We took a hiatus from traveling, trying out the lifestyle in south Texas, then moving along to Pensacola, Florida. Here, Mike went to school and became a licensed massage therapist. We opened the Pensacola Massage Center and have enjoyed a different way of helping other folks for the past few years. We have also begun the World Massage Festival and Massage Therapy Hall of Fame.

And now, we are moving along "a winding road" to more adventures. The domain name cruising-america.com has been sold to another company....seems like whenever one door closes, another one always opens. We continue to serve our clients with website domain and hosting and a wide variety of internet gateways via The Michaels Group, always keeping in mind that these are the folks that have allowed us the freedom over the years to explore new locations and new experiences. As our involvement in the alternative health industry expands with the World Massage Festival, we have plans to take it "on the road" and we are able to offer affordable continuing education workshops to massage therapists across the country.

Are we ready to completely give up travelling? That travel bug is a hard one to kick! Maybe in 20 years or so? Can we see it all by then? As long as we're healthy and can continue to provide such wide-range exposure for our clients, we'll keep going! And, we still need to find the perfect spot for OUR retirement! We will be starting once again to do reviews and travel a bit more frequently before going back on the road once again, so check back often!

Bark 'n Bridle, a division of The Michaels Group * 2408 Becker St. * New Braunfels, TX 78130
830-214-0827 * woof@barknbridle.com