Visitors are now able to access Esalen as well as other businesses and trails in northern Big Sur via twice-daily convoys on Highway 1 operated by Caltrans.
Convoys run only at 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. each day. These are the only opportunities to travel into and out of Big Sur, so visitors must plan accordingly.
Emily McDowell is a writer, illustrator, speaker, teacher, and creative strategist who is fiercely committed to not doing all of those things at the same time.
In 2012, she founded the stationery brand Em & Friends, making greeting cards and gifts for the relationships we really have, including its signature Empathy Cards for serious illness and grief. She is the co-author and illustrator of the book, There Is No Good Card For This: What To Say and Do When Life Gets Scary, Awful, and Unfair To People You Love. Her work has been featured in hundreds of outlets, including The New York Times, Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, BBC News, and NPR's All Things Considered.
Emily is also co-creator and co-host of the Quitted podcast with Holly Whitaker, giving voice to the question: “What do we do when we don’t want to be who we are anymore?” She believes in talking about the things we’re afraid to talk about, the things that make us uncomfortable, because there is medicine in discovering we’re not the only one (and we never are).
She is also currently navigating her own liminal space.
Emily McDowell is a writer, illustrator, speaker, teacher, creative strategist, and recovering entrepreneur. She’s best-known as founder of the stationery brand Em & Friends, and its signature Empathy Cards for illness and grief. She is currently navigating her own liminal space.
Esalen Institute
55000 Highway 1
Big Sur, CA 93920
US: 1-831-667-3000
info@esalen.org