OCTOBER 9, 2026 All photos by Lauren Jones for El Camino Travel Hi everyone, On the last night of every El Camino trip, we go around the table and each share something from the trip that stuck with us, something we're taking home. It's a chance to reflect, and it often reminds me why the type of travelers who join El Camino trips travel in the first place. They aren't looking to escape. They're looking to be stretched, to learn something they didn't know, and to see how else a life can be...
21 days ago • 5 min read
SEPTEMBER 2026 Hello hello,This month, we're switching things up for our bold women traveler series — putting the spotlight on one of the talented photographers who's been behind the lens for us, trip after trip. Meet alina, el camino bold woman traveler A Chicago-based commercial and lifestyle photographer and studio co-founder of Southfacing Windows, Alina's work has taken her behind the scenes with Nike, the WNBA, Adidas, Klarna, and the Chicago Bulls, shooting campaigns alongside athletes...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
SEPTEMBER 2, 2026 Hi everyone, Every January, most of us do the same thing. We write down the big idea. The business we want to start, the hobby we've been circling for two years, the version of our work we keep saying we'll get to "when things calm down." And then February comes, and it's still just a note in your phone. It's not usually a good-idea problem. It's an action problem. No structure, no feedback, no one in your corner asking how it's going. That's the part I wanted to build a...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
AUGUST 6, 2026 Hi everyone, People ask me all kinds of things about our trips — why we pick certain destinations, the pace, how it all comes together. But usually what they're really curious about is the other women in the group: who they'd be sitting across from over a long dinner, who they'd be leaning on for the last stretch of a hard hike, who they'd be soaking beside in a hot spring at the edge of a mountain, after a day neither of them will forget. A temple visit in Jaipur turned into...
3 months ago • 4 min read
JULY 2026 Hi everyone, One of the things I love most about this community is how multidimensional everyone in it is. These are women whose curiosity doesn't stop at one thing — it spills across careers, hobbies, passions, and places. This month's traveler spotlight is Sophia Dong, whose curiosity has taken her from a post-high-school gap year to careers across tech and real estate, and now to Georgia on an El Camino trip that reminded her why she keeps chasing the unknown. Ahead, she talks...
4 months ago • 3 min read
JUNE 2026 Ayubowan! It means "may you live long" in Sinhalese. It's the greeting we've been hearing everywhere — from hotel staff, from strangers, from the dancers we found ourselves moving alongside this morning in the city of Kandy. If you haven't guessed already or peeped our Instagram this week, we're a few days into El Camino's first Sri Lanka trip. We started in Colombo, where we visited an artist cooperative in the middle of the city that had one of the coolest listening rooms I've...
4 months ago • 2 min read
JUNE 2026 Hello everyone from the Marrakesh airport. I just wrapped up co-facilitating a workshop on the future of travel and experiential design with Thierry Teyssier, founder of Dar Ahlam — a property that genuinely defies description. I don’t say that lightly. The idea was simple. Bring people together from our networks who think differently about travel, who think outside the box, genuinely brilliant, and go deep on experiential design. Not the surface version. Now I'm headed off to our...
4 months ago • 4 min read
MAY 2026 THE LATEST ECT Moodboard Hi everyone, I'm currently writing this from Istanbul Airport, on my way to Mongolia to finalize details for our September trip. If you're interested in a behind-the-scenes look at how the "sausage is made" (so to speak) for a travel company, you can follow along here. I will be posting dispatches from the field. Speaking of what's ahead — the results from our 2027 destination survey have been fascinating to watch come in. So far, 175 of you have weighed in,...
6 months ago • 2 min read
@elcaminotravel | Insider Intel Channel | www.elcamino.travel We're still reviewing applications for 2026. In the last 72 hours, travelers booked spots for Brazil, India, and Japan. Apply here. Casa Violeta at sunset. We send our Casa Violeta guests three Spotify playlists before their trip. One for each moment in the house that you can only experience in that exact place, at that exact time. The first is for mornings. Fresh coffee from the french press, tropical birds going buck wild as the...
6 months ago • 1 min read