With all that's happened this past year, it's miraculous to think that we had just returned home from our road trip at exactly this time a year ago. This week, we're revisiting the trip and what we got to do before the borders closed down.

Like we do at this time of the year and now that 2020 is behind us, it’s time to start looking ahead at our goals and plans for 2021. Find out what we’re up to at The Markus Project and the things we have planned for this year!

As we close out the tumultuous year that was 2020, we take a few moments to reflect on the things that we got to do including a road trip through several US states at the very beginning before COVID-19 abruptly halted everything.

We're nearly 3 months into one of the most unusual times of our lifetime due to COVID-19. This week, we're reflecting on Markus' time on the road trip that we were fortunate enough to take prior to the travel restrictions and being at home since.

About a week or so from today, we’re embarking on a two-week road trip. Ahead of the trip, we’re doing some reflection on the things we’re looking forward to and other things we're going to keep an eye on with Markus.

Happy New Year's to everyone from The Pawcific Explorer. It's become a tradition for us to list out our resolutions for Markus at the beginning of the year. Since New Year's just passed a few days ago, we give you our 2020 list of resolutions for Markus!

It’s Markus’ 2nd Gotcha Day and we celebrated by having a little party with him and some dog friends. Since Thanksgiving is around the corner, we wanted to take the time to list out some of the things we’re grateful for.

This week, we wanted to do a check in with our mid-year update for 2019. It’s been a really fast moving, but fun year for us and we always look forward to these moments where we almost force ourselves to pause and look at and appreciate all the things that we've gotten to do so far this year.

To kick off the year, we wanted to share some of our resolutions with you as our "put it out into the universe" type of thing. In the past year, we made a lot of progress with Markus and his training, so we wanted to ramp up those goals up for 2019.

It's been a year since we rescued Markus! On this update, we revisit some of the concerns that we had about Markus and his aggression a year ago, how the year has gone and how he's doing today.

We've received some questions from some of you about how we set everything up in the car for the longer road trips. Markus is also a dog who doesn't like to settle in the car so we wanted to spend time going through what's worked for us.

We adopted Markus about nine months ago and we're doing our quarterly check-in this week to see how his training and development are coming along.

The Empathy For Life is a private animal shelter in South Korea that took in Markus and raised him for over a year. We're both thankful and grateful to the work that Empathy for Life does and we hope that this post extends the conversation.

It's been six months since we rescued Markus from South Korea and while it's cliché to say that it felt like yesterday, it really has felt that way. While the time has been fun and we've seen lots of progress in the training, we've also had challenges.

This is the first of our Paws & Reflect series where we reflect on how things have gone. It's only been three months and the trip to the Sea-Tac Airport is so vivid, but here are some of our initial thoughts on our first few months with Markus.

While doing research to rescue a dog, we came across the Dog-Meat Trade and Dog-Meat Farms in South Korea. We wanted to share about some of the things we learned because it played a major role in us deciding where to adopt our dog.

A few people have asked us about the decision to rescue rather and we're spending some time to answer that question this week. The decision wasn't easy, so we wanted to share our concerns with rescuing and why we ultimately chose to do it.

This is part two of our adoption story, which goes beyond the local shelters and to places like Thailand, South Korea and Japan in search of a dog to rescue. Our story happens in the Pacific Northwest and we hope it can be a roadmap those hoping to adopt.