Hi, I’m Camille.
I’m glad you’re here!
I am an Oregon-based travel writer, content creator, and mother of two. As a native of the Pacific Northwest who was born in Seattle and has been living in Oregon since 2007, I strive to experience and share the best of the great Northwest, with an emphasis on family-friendly outdoor excursions. I am also a nature lover who values conservation, community, hiking and savoring the bounty of our local farms and vineyards with and without my family in tow.
Background
I always wanted to start a blog, but life kept getting in the way. Tournesol Adventures was conceived before the pandemic and born as the world as we’d known it was unraveling. Right before the pandemic, I was between professional jobs and finally about to click “publish” on my first blog post, and we went into lockdown. A large part of what I planned to write about, travel and adventures with kids, didn’t seem to fit our new normal. Suddenly, many of us were scrambling to homeschool our kids, keep our jobs (if we were lucky enough to have them), and possibly get out of our PJs at some point during the day. It felt quite laughable to write about dream trips.
Yet, after an initial shelter-in-place low when I nearly bailed on the project, I returned to the drawing board. As I began to put pen to paper, good things started to happen, and the blog started guiding me forward. As I sought out new and creative ways to adventure locally, I began to share them, and discovered a growing community of like-minded parents and adventurers who were eager to do the same.
While our lives have resumed normalcy, the ethic of the blog continues, with a few farther-afield adventures now in the mix.
Collaborations
I am available for select freelance, partnership, and contract opportunities. If you have an idea for a collaboration, please drop me a line below, I’d love to speak with you. Most recently, I have written for ParentMap, Seattle’s Child, ROAM Family Travel, and Willamette Valley Life. I also have several nonprofit clients and am happy to discuss specific project needs.
I am also on Instagram, so if you enjoyed this blog, you might enjoy following along for weekly posts on related topics.
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