I definitely know how you feel about your Beagle.
We have a male Beagle (Sam), who will be 5 on Thanksgiving Day (talk about having an appropriate birthday). He goes with us just about everywhere we go except when we go to Church or out to eat.
When we go on vacation, he comes with us or we don't go. We travel with our business, he comes with us, sits and waits for us while we do our work, then he knows it is HIS time sometime each afternoon to go explore somewhere.
Don't know who is more spoiled, him or us, but couldn't imagine things without him. He loves people, and wherever he goes he pretty much "steals the show". WHAT a little ham!
Right now he is laying across my foot, both foot and dog are sound asleep...
lol
Nice pic, BTW!