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Lac Blanc in the Aiguilles Rouges above Chamonix, the Mont Blanc massif reflected in still water
Adventure Travel, DesignedEst. 2015 · Vermont-born, Litchfield, ConnecticutNo. 01

One extraordinary trip.
Or the whole year.

Riding, ridge walks, open water, golf, and extraordinary places — planned to the hour, handled entirely, and held together by people you can actually reach.
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The Method
One planner, one relationship — for a single week away or the whole calendar.
The Range
Alpine ridgelines, Mediterranean water, desert light, fairways and farm roads — and the day trip an hour from home.
The Standard
Everything vetted in person before you see it. Every preference on file before you land.
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The Blueprint
A year of travel designed in advance — anchors, micro-adventures, and the trips layered onto travel you already have.
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The Work
Eight years of delivered trips, from a one-day flight to Vermont to a week on the Mediterranean.
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Trips
Where our clients keep going back — and the shapes those trips take.
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Field Notes
Properties, tables, courses, trails, and a month-by-month read on when to go where.
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Begin
Tell us who's travelling and what a good day looks like. We take it from there.
The Blueprint

Start with one trip.
Stay for the year.

Most clients come to us for a single trip — a week in the Alps, a long weekend close to home. The Blueprint is what happens when they come back: the year, designed once in January.

It sets the shape of a year — a spring anchor, a summer escape close to home, a fall trip with real scale — with every detail left open to change. It exists because our longest-standing clients stopped asking us to plan a trip and started asking us to plan their travel.

It has taken us from a single day of riding in Vermont to a week on a Mediterranean coast, by way of a desert in Arizona, a lake in Lombardy, a cliff in the Caribbean, and a castle in Umbria — for the same person.

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Open pasture and forested ridgelines in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont
Summer close to home · the Northeast Kingdom
The Work

Eight years, one standard

Designed, booked, and run end to end — for founders, private families, and couples who travel constantly. Names removed; nothing else changed.

Lake Como seen from the mountains above the eastern shore, Lombardy
2023 · Italy

Five Days on Lago di Como

Mountain rides that straddle the Swiss border, lake crossings by boat between meals, and two mornings at one of Europe's oldest golf clubs.
5 days · 2 guests · Lake Como
The hill town of Trevi stacked above olive terraces in the Umbrian valley
2025 · Italy

A Long Weekend on an Umbrian Estate

Three riding days from a restored castle on a 1,500-hectare estate — cypress farm roads, vineyard tracks, and a Roman bathhouse in the cellars.
4 days · 2 guests · Umbria
Cap Rocat, the nineteenth-century coastal fortress hotel cut into the cliffs above Cala Blava, Mallorca
2026 · Spain

Late May in Mallorca

The island at its most balanced — warm days, deep water, green hills before the heat. Mornings on the bike, afternoons on the water or the course.
7 days · 4 guests · Mallorca
The Odle spires seen from the Seceda ridgeline above Val Gardena, Dolomites
2026 · Italy

Seven Days in the Dolomites

Two family-run houses, five walking-and-riding days, hut lunches, and the White War tunnels by headlamp. The cable cars take the climbing.
7 days · 9 guests · Dolomites
A guided party roped up on a glacier walk in Iceland
In design · Short notice

Iceland: The Highland Expedition

Helicopter arrival between two glaciers, a fourteen-experience menu shaped to the group and the weather, and two bases to choose from — the Highland Base, or Deplar Farm taken whole.
5–7 days · Private group · Iceland
A gravel rider on a dirt track through the foothills of the High Atlas, Morocco
2027 · In design

Marrakech to the Sahara's Edge

Atlas foothills, the Agafay desert, riads and private camps — riding east to the edge of the Sahara and flying home over the range.
6 days · In design · Morocco
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Trips
The Sassolungo and Sella groups of the Dolomites above open meadow
The Sella group, Dolomites

Four shapes a trip can take

Not a catalogue. A set of forms our clients keep returning to, each one adapted from work we have already delivered.

Anchor trips run five to seven days and set the tone for a season. Micro-adventures are one or two nights, close to home, no logistics. Add-ons layer movement onto travel already on your calendar. Expeditions are the long ones — Atacama, Patagonia, New Zealand.

Every trip is built from scratch, on your dates. We don't run set departures.

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Field Notes

We ground-test everything
before you land.

Eight years of hotels, trails, tables, courses, and timing calls — written down and open to read. No affiliate links. If it's in here, we've used it.

Start with When to Go Where — a month-by-month read across every region we work in, and the reasoning behind each call. Late May in Mallorca, late September in the Dolomites, October in Umbria. Everything else is negotiable.

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Two gravel riders on a cypress-lined farm road in the Chianti hills of Tuscany
Ground-testing in the Chianti hills
By the Numbers

A small book of clients
who travel constantly

We never ask for reviews. We ask for introductions. The book stays small — founders, private families, couples who travel constantly, and the retreats they host — and it travels with us several times a year, every year.

1 planner
Per client. No account team,
no handoffs
0 set departures
Every trip built to order,
on your dates
11 yrs
Our first client, in 2015,
is still a client
2015
Founded — same two
people, still answering
Who We Are

Taste in front. Discipline underneath.

KC&E is Caitlin and Collin Daulong — the judgment that decides what belongs in a year of travel, and the logistics standard that delivers it.

We started in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont in 2015. Our first client that year is still a client. We spent our early years running group trips before admitting the model was the problem — scale forces repetition, and the locations become inventory instead of an experience. So we went the other way: a small number of people, known personally, over years. Everything we do follows from that.

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Begin

Tell us who's travelling
and what a good day looks like.

That is genuinely the whole brief. We come back with a shape for the trip — or for the year — within a few days.

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