Travels With Elle
Personal travel blog with off-the-beaten-path guides, road trip itineraries, and practical tips.
About Travels With Elle
Travels With Elle is a personal travel blog run by Elle, a California-based traveler who launched the site after a formative solo backpacking trip in her twenties. The blog focuses on off-the-beaten-path experiences across California, the West Coast, Mexico, Asia and beyond, and aims to help busy readers plan affordable, memorable trips with practical itineraries and road-trip hacks. The site has grown quickly since 2023, now containing more than 650 posts and publishing on a regular basis. Many posts are illustrated with extensive original photography and long, detailed destination guides.
What makes Travels With Elle stand out is Elle’s friendly, insider voice that blends local enthusiasm with trip-planning muscle. Reading a typical post feels like following a well-travelled friend who annotates every stop with exact directions, meal tips, and lodging suggestions. The Beppu ryokan piece is a great example, a 3,300-word deep dive with dozens of photos, clear booking advice, and a candid affiliate disclosure. The site excels for road-trip planning, California and Japan guides, and immersive neighborhood writeups. It is also very active, producing a steady stream of new, practical guides aimed at real-world travel.
Where They Travel
international
Pros
- Detailed, practical itineraries and road-trip guides
- Generous original photo galleries in most posts
- Friendly, down-to-earth first-person voice
- Active publishing with fresh content often
Cons
- Multiple affiliate links disclosed in posts
- Uses Mediavine and Raptive ad networks
- Very long articles can feel dense
How Popular Is Travels With Elle?
- Open PageRank2.0 / 10
- Best-of lists1