The reporter had one piece of advice for people who want to travel like she did.

A reporter from New York has died after 18 months of fighting ALS, according to her news station.

People loved Valarie D’Elia as a travel reporter for NY1 and the Travel Channel. During her career, she went to 103 countries on seven continents.

NY1 confirmed that the 64-year-old woman died on Tuesday and was survived by her husband Ron.

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

From 1998 to 2017, she worked for the news station.

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.

An important journalist friend said that she was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) 18 months before she died. ALS is also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

There is no cure for ALS, a disease that damages motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord.

A REAL NEW YORKER

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

Then he thought back to the last time he talked to D’Elia, who had “relentless energy.”

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

“Her constant energy and wide range of interests worn out even the most energized me.”

“But it wasn’t until she found out that she was born in the village of Castelfranco, Italy, that 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.”

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

“I’m so sorry to hear about Valerie D’Elia’s death. Ramy Gafni wrote, “She was a great friend for many years.”

“That time she was robbed on her way to see me, we always laughed about it.”

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

“That was the most New York thing she ever said: ‘I was robbed.'” “Would you like some tea?”

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

“I am beyond devastated by this news,” wrote a different friend of D’Elia’s in the comments.

“I loved her travel segments!!!!” said a shocked viewer.

When asked about her work in 2019, D’Elia told The New York Post that she spent about 60% of the year away from home.

In the early 1900s, her great-grandfather opened a travel agency, which shows that travel is very important to her family.

When people traveled, she told them to “pack light and forget the blow dryer.”

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

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