‘3 Kids Travel’ blogger Elise Smith Caffee dies in Utah after Mexico crash

Salt Lake City Travel Blogger, who entertained thousands of social media followers when he searched the world with his three daughters.

Six days after a car crash in Kancon, Mexico, Elise Smith Cafe died on Wednesday, March 12 at Bernard University of Utah Hospital. She was 45 years old.

Cafe was “a true light” and a “great friend”, Salt Lake City wrote on Food Blogger Maria Lachti based in Salt Lake City Tweet Embed Instagram account on Thursday. “He took time to truly understand people, and his anxiety shone in everything his work.”

For almost a decade, starting in 2016, Cafe has documented his family’s global adventures on his blog, 3 children travelAnd the Instagram account, which had more than 45,000 followers.

Cafe not only showed the sites that his family visited, but Joint trip advice -From which gear to find family friendly ways to go around Perus or Kibo San Lucas. On February 3, his last blog post “gives a list of ways to create his own escape without leaving the city.

“We had our first child and all our friends told us that we would have to stop traveling so much,” Cafe wrote. On the website. “When our first child was born, our lives changed a lot, but we determined not to let him go on the path of his love.”

On March 6, Cafe and her husband, Dan, went to Kennon, Mexico for a friend’s wedding, According to a post A family Instagram account was created last week to update fans about its medical condition. On the freeway from the airport to the hotel, the Chii suburban city in which they were riding was part of a pile of 10 cars.

A truck that contained a hot asphalt and the suburbs turned, the cafe was trapped from the inside and put the Asphalt into a destroyed vehicle and several other cars. The driver of the suburbs died at the scene.

The Instagram Post said the accident occurred to a hospital, so the calf was treated almost Immediately immediately. She was unconscious and intelligent, and the next day Salt Lake City arrived, where she got surgery and more medical care.

“He held such a long time and struggled so strongly against the impossible set of the situation.” A message posted on Thursday Read Family Instagram account. “Exactly everything that could have been done for him was done and we are thankful that they were able to return home to say goodbye to their family before leaving us.”

Cafe traveled from an early age. According to the 3 children’s travel Instagram account, she and her twin sister were picked up in Short Hills, New Jersey, and moved to Japan with her family at the age of 9.

“My twin sister rode on her bike and took the subway as 10 -year -old children and searched for Tokyo himself.” Written in 2020He added that he traveled to China, Thailand and Singapore at school intervals.

He wrote, “We learned to see ourselves as part of the global community and made friendship all over the world.” “I just hope I am giving my children the same experience as we travel to the world together.” As a young adult, Cafe wrote on his blog, she also lived in Spain and Israel for a time.

He met Dan Cafe on the beach of Santa Monica, California in 2005. He wrote that he had also spent his young adult years abroad in Germany, Russia and Honduras. The couple married November 24, 2007 in Salt Lake City.

“We are almost complete polar opponents (excluding love of our journey), but over the years, I have been learning that we are perfect for each other.” A 2020 Instagram postOn his 13th birthday. “We made a contract that we would be a travel family – and we are still doing so.”

Cafe wrote, and then his oldest daughter was 4 weeks when she was 4 weeks, she took her first plane ride and then saw the beach. At the age of 3, he took him to camp in Yusmite overnight. After a month, they took him to Mexico.

“Over time, we added two more girls to our family, and we traveled as a five -year -old family and adjusts to life.” “The journey to connect and bond as a family became our way.”

In 2016, the Cafe family visited its first international journey, three weeks to Europe, in which Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Malmo, London and Paris were stopped. The girls were 7, 5 and 2. Next year, the family went to Vienna, Britslava and Budapest. A year later, they moved to China. (On Instagram and in his blog, Cafe carefully avoided his daughters’ names.)

In writing, Cafe’s interest was not limited to his travel blog. In 2022, Cafe and Utah’s author Tufni Rosennan launched Jamil pressedAn independent publishing company. This name came from the French word of “twin”, as both caves and daily were born as the twin.

Jamil Press published his first book in October 2023, Maria Lachti’s kickbook “Late Eight Cookies”. Last year, the company released “a deliberate home” on the books of two children’s books and a home design. The company is ready to add 2025 slate “A promise revenge,” A young adult “romanty” novel of a Utah writer Sarah B. LarsonAlso, the book of Cafe and Rosen Travels of Children.

Fiction Written on Instagram This, as a publisher, “Elise was organized, reliable, and always in the upper part of every detail. She has always been calm and assembled, clearly, thinking of guidance. She was positive, encouraging and so helpful. She gave her everything.”

Earlier this week, the families of Smith and Cafe launched A gofundme campaign To raise money for the driver’s family, which was identified as Louis, who was provoking the cafe in Canaon when the accident occurred. By Friday morning, the campaign had collected more than 000 67,000, which aims to pay for Louis’ funeral costs, potential legal fees, and support for his wife and three children.

After the cafe, her husband, Dean and her three daughters were left. Until Friday, a complete list of survivors was not available, and memorable services projects were not announced.