Journey Beyond the Beaten Path

Hi, I’m Elaina and I like to travel a bit differently than most people.

Over the past 10 years, 6 continents, 55 countries, and countless adventures. I’ve fallen in love with a certain breed of travel: slow, unusual, and purposeful. The kind of travel that doesn’t look to anyone else for guidance or permission. The kind that takes us deep into places we never even imagined. To me, travel isn’t about going halfway around the world to take a photo of something we’ve always known is there, but about putting down the camera and holding the hand of someone we could have never dreamed existed.

I treat travel the way I treat life, like an epic journey. Travel is about going to the farthest ends of the Earth to acknowledge each other, to teach and to learn, and to feel deeply uncertain and uncomfortable. It’s about realizing that our wildest dreams are already alive out there — and honoring the human instinct to explore them.