NEWS

In the newest issue, PinDrop® founder Tim Elinski recounts a four-day journey along the legendary El Camino del Diablo, one of the most remote and historic routes in the American Southwest. The article explores the challenges, scenery, and rewards of traveling through this rugged desert landscape while highlighting the importance of self-sufficient, off-grid adventure.

El Camino del Diablo —The Devil’s Highway— is the latter. A scorched corridor of desert stretching across the Arizona–Sonora border, it has tested explorers, migrants, soldiers, and surveyors for centuries. It is a place where water determines survival, silence carries weight, and preparation is not optional. In the coming weeks, PinDrop® Founder Tim Elinski will travel this historic route alongside media and collaborators, not to conquer it, but to listen to it.

El Camino del Diablo is an historic road shaped by time, endurance, and struggle. For thousands of years, this trail has been walked by Indigenous travelers, explorers, and migrants each leaving little behind. To move through this place is to slow down, to listen, and to travel with humility. This menu is inspired by the history of Arizona and this historic road. Prepared simply in the PinDrop® galley kitchen, each meal is paired with an Arizona wine and meant to be shared in