Little Leaf has been to 41 states. She’s hiked iconic trails, canoed rivers and taken a hot-air balloon ride.

She is a goat, but to her owner, she’s a trusted travel companion. At night, they share a bed.

“She’s done more travel than most people in an entire lifetime,” said Kate Cramer, who saved Little Leaf when the goat was a sick newborn rejected by her mother.

Cramer, 44, rescued Little Leaf a few days after the goat was born in 2020. At the time, Cramer was living on a goat farm in Duvall, Wash. She rented a room from a farmer just before the pandemic, after a few years of traveling and hiking around the United States.

“I grew up on and off farms,” she said. “Animals were my comfort.”

There was a litter of goats on the farm, and one of the three goats was smaller and weaker than

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