About Gift of Go
The Work
We guide long, demanding journeys through places that haven’t been turned into tourism yet, and move at the pace the story requires.
Our inaugural Collection is dedicated to Brazil’s Serra do Espinhaço.
Our Expeditions, Journeys, and Bespoke trips are all rooted in long-term, place-based research. Before a route is ever mapped, we study a place as it is lived. We return repeatedly, working with local communities to understand rhythms, histories, and constraints that don’t appear on maps. We then build our trips: original traverses and crossings through working landscapes, which we lead alongside local crews and partners.
The result is a style of travel that is immersive, effortful, and revealing, built for travelers who value depth, narrative, and stewardship over spectacle.
Field Trip #12. Sempre Vivas NP
Founder-built. Explorer-led.
Each and every one of our trips is founder-built and led. We chart the routes, work directly with the people who receive us, and guide each step of the journey from start to finish.
Sharing this part of the world with travelers is our favorite part of the job. It’s also a safeguard. Being present keeps decisions grounded, care consistent, and the thread of the journey intact for our travelers, our crews, and the places that make this work possible.
There are easier ways to operate.
For journeys built on context, relationships, and understanding, this is the only way that holds.
Field Trip #1. Santa Bárbara
How this became our life
There was no single spark for Gift of Go. It grew out of a lifetime of travel, and years spent living and exploring places we cared about deeply.
Over time, that exploration became purpose. Purpose led to responsibility. Responsibility turned into structure. That structure made it possible to invite others in, carefully, and in small numbers, without breaking what made the work meaningful in the first place.
Gift of Go is the result of choosing to organize our lives around this work, and around the living stories of the places that shape it.
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