Got a labrador, and he goes with us everywhere.
He has a long coat, ( a genetic defect apparently ) , but the whole family loves him.

For some reason, during the day will not stay in his bed or just the ground, in the grass. We learned the hard way to get a chair specially for him :) . Otherwise he will just climb in any chair available, even if it was too small and was like half in :). Wild camping, no one around, we let him off leash, other wise he is on the leash.
Once we did a stop over at a B&& pet friendly, and, as it happened, ( unknown to us when we made the reservation ), there was a Cat Expo in town.
All around us people with cats. Luckily they kept them in boxes... but still , no fun....
We traveled in many countries, some are more dog friendly than others, but in general the experience has been good so far .
Funniest thing was in Albania . A lot of stray dogs over there, and those who have them, are guard dogs, kept mostly in yards for guard duty, big mean dogs.
So people were not familiar with other breeds, and when we would walk in the neighborhood, even at rush hours, a path would create like Moses splitting the seas.. people were really afraid of him and kept the distance.. :)