My travels began at a very young, when my parents (or mi abuelita!) would take my sister and I back to our motherland, El Valle, Colombia. They wanted us to experience and cultivate a love, connection and reverence for the land and treasured people which made us. Every trip left its mark, and was experienced through a unique lens as I came of age. It has been one of the greatest gifts, to come to know and love the country my parents left in hopes of a better future for us.

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As I child, my family would bring us to events, concerts, gatherings, and experiences which hosted people from around the world. Latin America, Austria, New Zealand, BRAZIL! I was introduced to the diversity of cultures beyond my own Latino heritage. These schools of thought, new ideas, arts and joyful interactions opened my eyes to the beauty that every place and people in this world has to offer, as well as an insatiable curiosity to experience as much of it as I could!

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As I entered adulthood, I had the opportunity to travel to New York City once a year. We are fortunate enough to have dear family in the city, who would kindly welcome me in, offer me an extra key, and well wishes on my adventures in the city! Autonomy! Freedom! Public Transportation! It was the beginning of my solo-ventures. I would head out the entire day, and sometimes a good part of the night, walking through central park, writing my experiences down in the journal, getting lost on the subway. exploring until my heart was full.

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As I continued maturing in my professional career as an entertainer, I began having travel opportunities through my music. My first paid trip was a private event to El Paso Texas, I was 21. It blew my mind. *The company put the rental car in my name* and I explored the city every evening after our series of shows. My music would take me to private events around Florida and the nation. I learned to make the best of each occasion to see and experience the city and it's local customs. I would run out and see as much as I could.

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In 2016, at the age of 23, my travel life changed forever. I was scouted by an agent who offered me a choice between 2, 4 month cruise ship contracts as a Solo Entertainer. I quickly jumped online and cross-referenced the ship names with their itineraries at the time I was to be aboard.

The 1st option was a 3-day loop of the Caribbean. The 2nd was 2.5 months of 14 day, farther-reaching loops of the Caribbean, with stops in Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, !!!COLOMBIA!!!, the US Virgin Islands, St. Marteen, Barbados, and a number of other  incredible islands I'd never been to. This contract was exciting me! As I clicked through the website reaching further into the itinerary, I noticed a special voyage labeled "Transatlantic to the Azores... what are the Azores. I clicked on that cruise and discovered our first port after a 5 day oceanic crossing would be the island of, followed by a destination porting of Lisbon.​

I got SO excited about my discovery, that I called my agent and asked for an extension, from 4-6 months (cuz the ship was staying in the Mediterranean, going to Turkey and Greece!!!) She was hesitant because it was my first contract, who knew if I'd like it. I reassured her, I would be just fine lolol. By the end of the 6 months, we had visited 16 different countries, 55+ cities on 4 different continents.

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I developed a reputation for being the last one on the ship.

It was during this contract that a British friend of mine shared his interest in exploring Iceland. "Iceland?! Tell me about it!"​​ I fell in love with tales of the ring road, volcanoes, waterfalls, iceberg lagoons, continental rifts. This conversation was the spark to the additional 6 week solo-venture I took around Europe after my contract ended.

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On July 23rd, 2016 my contract ended. I was dropped off in Rome for a flight back to the States, which, which I promptly skipped. A few weeks prior, I had booked my one way ticket home from Reykjavík, Iceland on September 8th. I had 6 weeks to get from Rome to Iceland while seeing as much of it as I could. During that 6 week period, I visited 11+ countries and 23+ cities.
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I fell in love with travel because of the adventures I encountered, the magic, connection, tenacity and self-reliance that it brings forth, but most especially because of the incredible human beings I've encountered on every journey.


 

At the time of writing, I've had the opportunity to visit 35 incredible countries and experience their peoples, culture, music and magic.

The great expansion in my travel began in 2016 during an entertainment contract during which I visited over 55 cities in 16 different countries in 6 months, followed by my first solo european adventure, visiting 21 cities in 10 different countries for the course of 6 weeks.