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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.

Alyssa in Cuba

Discovering My Roots – Family in Santiago de Las Vegas, Cuba

It’s pretty incredible that I still have family living in Cuba, and even more incredible that I have the opportunity to not only visit them for the first time, but to see where my grandparents grew up as well. I found a journal written by my grandmother after she died about 4 years ago that she wrote in 1992, describing where she was born, grew up, and what...

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Centro Havana, Cuba – Update #2

  Some more photos from scouting locations for the editorial shoot in Centro Habana. Lots of beautiful architecture and beautiful buildings and cars! Still feeling hostility from the people who don’t seem to like “tourists” taking photos of where they live (I don’t blame them) and being here in general. Most don’t warm up until I...

Alyssa in Havana Cuba

Bienvedidos a Havana! Update #1

It’s my third day in Havana and I finally found internet at one of the nice hotels called El Presidente, just a few blocks from the “casa” I’m staying at. It’s 4 CUC for an hour, and extremely hard to connect. Yes – Cuba is amazingly beautiful, and it feels like being transported back to the 1950’s Yes – There are...

10 Tips For Dating A Girl Who Loves to Travel

10 Tips for Dating a Girl Who Loves to Travel

By Alyssa Ramos & Contributors Buckle your seatbelts boys, if you’ve fallen for for a girl who loves to travel, you’re in for a real adventure. Don’t get too excited for the ride yet though, it takes a lot more effort than you think to date a girl who travels. It’s not as easy as dating the typical girl, but it’s definitely worth the...

Not So Lucky in Ireland

Not So Lucky in Ireland

I won’t go into full details since they’re pretty terrible, but let’s just say I had really bad luck in Dublin, Ireland… As in, I ended up breaking up with someone and fleeing the country a few days early. But before that, when I was still trying to make the best of it, I went off on my own, which was terrifying at the time, but now that...

Hello Honduras! 10 Things to do in Roatán Bay

Hello Honduras! 10 Things to Do in Roatán Bay

by Alyssa Ramos Honduras was never on my top list of places to go. In fact, it wasn’t even my idea to go in the first place, but of course, my wanderlust-ism got the best of me, and before I knew it I was taking a propeller plane from the mainland of Honduras to its most popular island, Roatán Bay. Now, if you asked me what one of my favorite places has been...

How to Use Tinder During Travel

How to Use Tinder During Travel

by Alyssa Ramos I thought I was just so clever when I blurted out to my roommate that I was going to enable my Tinder profile on a recent trip to New York City, and frankly, she did too. What better way to meet cute, sophisticated guys in suits in a city where I had no idea where they hid, right? Well. It didn’t exactly turn out with the fairytale Sex and the...

10 Packing Tips for Procrastinators

10 Packing Tips for Procrastinators

byAlyssa Ramos If “The Packing Procrastinator” were a movie, I’d have the leading role. I have no idea why, but I can never seem to pack for a trip any earlier than a few hours before my plane takes off, which tends to not end well. But I know I’m not the only one. The packing struggle is real for a lot of travelers, which is why it helps to...

5 Tips for Taking Travel Photos with your iPhone

5 Tips for Taking Travel Photos with your iPhone

by Alyssa Ramos After a full week of shooting models backstage at New York Fashion Week, photographer Kevin Lu (Instagram: @sweatengine) lent me some time to interview him on tips for taking travel photos with your iPhone. I met Kevin on my flight from New York to LA when he noticed me blogging and I noticed him editing photos. It turns out that Kevin used to be a...