Today we’d like to introduce you to Elisabeth Caraballo.

Hi Elisabeth, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.

My first trip at the age of four was to Disney World in Orlando, Florida. I like to believe this is what started my love for travel. I remember growing up and going somewhere every year for summer or spring break. Mainly it was within the United States; except for one time we walked over to Mexico for a day trip while visiting family in Texas.

As I got older all I wanted to do was travel. So, once I graduated high school in 2006 I set off into the world and have since lived in various cities in the United States and visited many countries. But, my move to Miami, Florida in 2013 would shake things up just a bit.

While in Miami I was there to help take care of my two little cousins for my older cousin who was finishing nursing school and her husband who was away with the United States Coast Guard often. On my downtime I was working on my GS with an emphasis in Communication degree online, I worked as a Social Media Marketing and Events Intern for an amazing non-profit and started taking acting classes (the shake up). From my first acting class I was hooked.

After my time in Miami I decided to finish off my senior year on campus at my University. While I was there I took theater, directing classes, and an acting workshop. I acted in 5 one act plays and was in our University showcase. During that time I decided I was pursuing an acting career after I graduated. Boy was I wrong!

During the summer after I graduated with my bachelor’s degree in 2015 I started coming across all these amazing travel blogs. Then I got the travel itch real bad and decided that was what I wanted to do. So, I put starting an acting career on hold and started a travel blog called Kansas Girl Adventures which would last until 2017. This is because I created an online travel/ lifestyle magazine called Travel Pass Magazine. With both publications I connected with travelers from all over the world, traveled to awesome places, and worked with many amazing brands and businesses. Then COVID hit and everything stopped. No more traveling and no more travel magazine.

Once the world reopened and the chaos started to die down. I started thinking about what I truly wanted to do. I decided I wanted to get back into acting, start another travel website, start non-profits.

I have been auditioning for acting roles, launched a new travel website Travel Pass Media, and launched a non-profit World Backpack. I’m also currently pursuing a MLS (Masters in Legal Studies) degree in hopes of becoming an international, human rights, and animal rights lawyer one day.

Travel Pass Media:

Travel Pass Media (FKA Travel Pass Magazine) is an independent travel website where travelers can share their travel life/style with the world – if you experienced it we want to share it. We feature a variety of travel related content- from stories, lifestyle, interviews, news, must-haves, tips/tricks and more.
​
Our ultimate goal is to inspire everyone to live a travel life; a travel life that best suits them.

World Backpack:

World Backpack is a non-profit organization founded in 2025. We provide backpacks filled with essential items (toothpaste, shampoo, deodorant etc.), clothes, shoes, and more to individuals and their fur babies around the world who have fallen on hard times due to personal struggles, financial hardship, natural disaster, war, victims of domestic violence and human trafficking etc.

World Backpack was founded by Elisabeth Caraballo. There are two experiences she had in her life that helped lead her to creating World Backpack. The first being traveling with a non-profit organization to Haiti in 2011 a year after a catastrophic earthquake hit. Elisabeth and her group toured the devastation left behind by the earthquake, saw rebuilding efforts, met locals, visited orphanages and donated items including clothes and shoes from Elisabeth’s Grandma that had passed away a few months prior to the trip.

The second was working as a Social Media Marketing and Events Intern for the non-profit organization The EDGE (Early Development of Global Education) in Miami, Florida. She helped with toy drives, visiting orphanages, filling backpacks with school supplies for underprivileged kids, helped teach a DSL (Discover, Science, Literacy) program, and organized events to help raise money for victims of domestic violence and human trafficking.

Elisabeth is no stranger to donating items to individuals in need and buying gifts for foster children and families from the Angel tree every year for christmas since she was a kid. She has also donated items to her local animal shelter and is a TNR caregiver for the cats in her community. These life experiences were eye opening in many ways and now Elisabeth is taking what she has learned and putting her heart and soul into her own non-profit, World Backpack.

World Backpack’s mission is to brighten the lives of individuals and their fur babies that have fallen on hard times. We do this through providing backpacks filled with essential items, clothes, shoes, and more.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?

The two biggest challenges I’ve had were when I first started out pursuing a travel career and COVID.

While starting my travel blog Kansas Girl Adventures I was determined to make it a full-time career. But, that of course was not going to happen overnight. So, I decided to start freelancing rather than take on a full or part-time job. Freelancing would allow me to have flexibility with pursuing my travel career. So I thought. I had to work so many freelancing jobs that at times it took away from my blog and limited my time exploring on my travels.

When COVID hit that was the end of Travel Pass Magazine and of course traveling for a while. COVID also took away some of my freelancing jobs because the businesses could no longer pay employees. This was also during the time where just two months before COVID hit I had just moved into my new apartment in Kansas City. Luckily I still had my main freelancing job during this time even though I took a big income hit. I was thankful to at least have that job.

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?

Acting Portfolio: https://www.backstage.com/tal/elisabeth-caraballo/

Travel Pass Media: https://www.travelpassmedia.com/

World Backpack: https://www.worldbackpack.org

Can you share something surprising about yourself?

On top of pursuing an acting career, running a travel website, non-profit, and pursuing a MLS (Masters in Legal Studies) degree. I still work my day jobs as a content editor and proof operator.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.backstage.com/tal/elisabeth-caraballo/, https://www.travelpassmedia.com/, https://www.worldbackpack.org
• Instagram: Instagram.com/elisaanncara, Instagram.com/travelpassmedia, Instagram.com/worldbackpackorg

Image Credits

Ben McBee