Aww what a sweet story. Gotta go pick up daddy. I love that.
Yes, mine love to go go go. They will hop in the car for a 'car ride' as I say to them even if I haven't said where we are going yet. You see, they know we are going for a walk probably because she put our harness's on us. But a car ride without their individual harness's is just a trip to the post office or other family member's house.
When it was just she and I, I took my middle size girl everywhere with me, even on a few driving trips. Thankfully, the other's like to ride too. Heck, they even got in a stranger's mini van that was like ours once. It was at a park, so they didn't freak out, but it was embarrassing, and I just said, we had a van like that once. Which I did. The woman nursing a baby and her husband just laughed good heartedly.
I have tried to be an aware mom and get my weenie girl one of those seats like the pet stores have that prop them up so they can see out the window as my bigger dogs LOVE to do. She HATED it. She loves to car ride, but I think she didn't like to be 'in the air'. She just would not stay there, moving or not, strapped in or not. She could not stand it. So she just rides in the back and does love it, so I just shrugged it off.