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Author - Alyssa Ramos

Alyssa Ramos of @MyLifesATravelMovie is one of the original Solo Female Travel Blogger/influencers for 11+ years! She's been to 140+ Countries, all 7 Continents, 7 World Wonders, 7 Wonders of Nature, and has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and Everest Basecamp!

Alyssa is also the original creator of Influencer-Hosted Group Trips, and hosts 4-5 adventures per year to unique, remote, and stereotypical "dangerous" places. Tap the Group Trips tab to learn more!

After being fully nomadic for 8 years, she now owns an apartment in Tulum and lives part time in Italy with her fiance.

5 Reasons to Visit Vieques

Originally, the main purpose of me going to Puerto Rico was to go to Vieques and see the biggest and brightest bioluminescent bay in the world that’s located there. I didn’t do much research on anything else that’s in Vieques besides what you see in the water at night, so you can imagine my surprise when I got to the gorgeous tropical island during...

5 Tips For Using Travel Reward Points

Contributing Author Are you member of multiple hotel loyalty programs? Do you consider yourself a road warrior and pointshound? Are you traveling on the company’s dime? If the answer to these questions is YES, your goal is simple, to optimize all your trips to build or grow your personal stockpile of hotel points. So when it’s vacation time, you’ll...

HUFFINGTON POST: The Difference Between ‘Dating’ Material and ‘Travel the World With’ Material

via Huffington Post by Alyssa Ramos I suck at dating. I’m not cutey, or flirty, or seductive. I won’t giggle and agree with everything you say, and I’m not afraid to make it known that I have big dreams, and live a bit of an unconventional life, that I f*cking love. I’m not the always-sweet, always-pretty, “Sugar and Spice and Everything...

5 Tips for Avoiding Airport Anxiety

Contributed by Samantha Penn They say that airports are one of the most stressful places known to man. Long immigration queues, a multitude of security checks, flight delays and lost luggage, it’s no wonder that so many people hate flying. In order to keep your airport stress to a minimum, here are a few tricks to combat all those anxiety triggers. 1. Don’t schedule...

5 Awesome San Diego Staycaytion Adventures

San Diego is a notorious iconic city of California, and there’s a really good reason why! From surf-worthy beaches to casual shopping streets, there’s an adventure to be found everywhere you look in San Diego! To be completely honest, before I started really traveling, there was a 0% chance I would just get up and go drive pretty much anywhere outside of...

7 Minute Self Defense Lesson for Women Traveling Solo

An attack can happen in less than 7 seconds, which is why women traveling solo (well, anyone traveling solo really) need to know some basic self defense techniques to keep themselves safe. So, since my little 107lb ass likes to wander around the globe alone, I looked into all sorts of self defense classes for women, but, most were too expensive, inconvenient...

8 Tips for Posting Better Instagram Travel Pics

I don’t mean to brag…but I saw a DRASTIC increase in attention from my Instagram pics after I learned how to actually take good pictures. Instagram is an art, and I don’t care how weird I sound saying that. Unless you want to get scrolled right over, you need to create compelling content, just like you would for your blog posts, business proposals...