Camille Ebert launched The Educated Traveler in 2024, but its origins have been in her blood since the day she was born. Her grandparents, both university professors, traveled the world setting up education systems, in unstable, post-World War II, third world countries. Camille’s bedtime stories were real-life family adventures, including friendly African tribes emerging from the bush to carry the family car through floodwaters, a Burmese python being gently, but swiftly removed from the family home by the gardener, and the family landing safely after a mid-flight airplane fire.

Camille shares her grandparents’ love of education, and started out as an English teacher in Park City, Utah. After moving her family to Boston with her husband, Steve, she took her love of learning from the classroom into the real world, exploring New England, the entire East Coast and eventually embarking on 13 cross-country extended road trips, visiting 47 states. She soon created theme trips for her family, including the Revolutionary War, Black History and Westward Expansion. Her daughters’ American Girl historical dolls came to life as she planned travel adventures around their character sketches.

It was on one of these trips in the Southwest, while visiting Taos Pueblo, Carlsbad Caverns and Los Alamos, that Camille wondered if she could do the same thing in Europe, and possibly beyond. The next summer she was on her way to Italy, with her six children in tow. The group traveled to 14 countries over three months. Upon returning to the states, the flame was lit; it wasn’t long before Camille planned itineraries to Africa, Asia and South America, often on humanitarian excursions. In 2022 she took her three youngest abroad again for an extended stay in Africa and Europe, beginning in Morocco and driving 15,000 miles throughout Europe, visiting 20 countries.

Camille has always known that her family will maximize their travel experience, making personal connections, remembering more and applying it in their future lives, if they arrive prepared with background knowledge. As each adventure nears, Camille hosts themed parties, plans ethnic dinners, creates cultural crafts and activities, fills the coffee table and bookshelves with destination related literature and creates podcast queues and music playlists which engage her family in the sites they will be visiting.

It is not uncommon for Camille to receive comments from tour guides and museum docents that her group is the best prepared visitors they have met. In her house, her children’s after school conversations regularly include that, in class, they learned about a site they had recently visited, making their classroom learning more applicable, real and memorable.

Camille is passionate about the increased benefit and enjoyment her family gains by arriving at a travel site prepared, but she is also equally frustrated that resources are not easily accessible or already compiled. It is these emotions, along with enthusiasm and encouragement from fellow travelers, that have led her to joyfully launch The Educated Traveler.

Through The Educated Traveler, she hopes to share her excitement in combining education and travel to help others create the most enjoyable, engaging life experiences possible.