If you want to travel like the reporter did, she had one piece of advice for you.

According to her news station, a journalist from NEW YORK has died after 18 months of fighting ALS.

As a travel reporter for NY1 and the Travel Channel, Valarie D’Elia went to 103 countries on seven continents and became very popular.

This morning, the 64-year-old woman died. She was survived by her husband Ron, according to NY1.

“For nearly two decades, she loved traveling the city, country, and world by air, sea, and train, then reporting back to the NY1 audience,” the announcement said.

She was an employee of the news station from 1998 to 2017.

People in New York City knew D’Elia for her work on “Travel with Val” and other shows for HBO, the Travel Channel, and The Travel Show on WOR Radio Network.

A close friend of the journalist said that 18 months before she died, she was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

It is a disease of motor neurons that gets worse over time and affects the brain and spinal cord. There is no cure for ALS.

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“Write more harder words. Perry Garfinkel wrote on Facebook, “My dear longtime friend and colleague Valarie D’Elia passed away yesterday after an 18-month battle with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a disease that weakens the nervous system.”

He then thought back to the last time he talked to D’Elia, who was full of “relentless energy.”

Garfinkel said, “A few months ago, she told me to get in touch with her contact at CBS.”

“With her constant energy and many interests, she tired even me, who thought I could never be tired.”

“But when she learned that she was born in the village of Castelfranco, Italy, she found her passion: to promote ancestry research and her Italian heritage. In the process, she also found her purpose.”

“She was only 64 years old and I know many in her world and around the world are grieving, as am I.”

Other friends have said nice things about the reporter, and one has talked about D’Elia’s “most New Yorker moment.”

“I’m very sorry to hear about Valerie D’Elia’s death. This person was a great friend for a long time, Ramy Gafni wrote.

It made us laugh every time she told us she was robbed on her way to see me.

“She called to tell me she had to change her plans, and I told her to come over for tea or something stronger anyway.”

“That’s what she always said was the most New York thing: ‘I got mugged.'” Is it possible for you to have some tea?”

“She had a great sense of humor and she will be missed,” said he.

“This news breaks my heart,” wrote another friend of D’Elia’s in the comments.

Surprised fan added, “I loved her travel segments!!!!”

The New York Post talked to D’Elia about her work in 2019 and found that she was usually away from home for about 60% of the year.

The woman talked about how her family has a long history and a love of travel. In the early 1900s, her great-grandfather opened a travel agency.

It was her one piece of travel advice that people should “pack light and forget the blow dryer.”

“Who wants to worry about all that stuff?” she asked.

“You’ll be amazed at how liberated you’ll feel.”