Jupiter Native Alyssa Ramos Talks To Us About Traveling Solo To 84 Countries

Alyssa Ramos, 29, admits that when it comes to world travel, not everyone is suited to go it alone. In fact, it wasn’t her first choice. “I took my first solo trip because I kept waiting around for other people to travel with. I just got tired of missing out on opportunities,” Ramos says, revealing that as a self-described “ambitious adventurer,” she realized how much she loved being on her own after her first solo trip to Thailand and Australia in 2014. “The only time it’s negative is just the hassle of constant travel and not really having a normal life,” Ramos says. “But then again, I really love not having a normal life.”A Jupiter native, Ramos was restless after college and struggling to find a job that would give her the freedom to work from anywhere. At that time the “anywhere” Ramos had in mind was poolside in Los Angeles, so she packed up in 2011 and moved west. She found writing gigs she stitched together to make ends meet and used the scant money she earned on travel. It wasn’t long before she started putting those feel-good pieces together as a full-time job and made a niche for herself as a solo female traveler.