DO you take your pets anywhere other than the vet and the groomers?

My cat is a good car rider and we used to take her with us pretty much everywhere we went when she was younger. Unfortunately, as she's gotten older, (she's three now) she's become more and more of a house cat and no longer enjoys going outside so much. When we took her on car rides previously, however, she thought of the car as part of her home, and didn't like to leave her 'home' when we arrived at our destination. I would pack her into her travel carrier and she would just cry and cry until she got inside the building and she could come out of the box again. I just left the box open while she was in the car and allowed her to wander the interior. She was allowed to go everywhere inside the car except the two places she really wanted to be... on the dash and beneath the driver's feet. Keeping her out of those two locations was a full time job and she dedicated the entire ride to figuring out different ways to fool us so she could go to one of those forbidden places and sleep. We leave her home these days but that means that we never stay away overnight as she is an only cat and we don't want her getting too lonely.