Meet the Team

Travelated.com brings you hilarious tales of travel from around the world as well as tips on how to travel on a budget. If you want a guide to help you travel, go buy a Frommer’s. If you want entertainment, give us a try. We only feature writers who will make you laugh or give you helpful, usable tips on keeping travel costs down. We want you to laugh rich and travel cheap!

The Travelated.com Team

Site Director -Alex	Content and Social Media Manager –Emily	Content Manager -Rease
Alex Ritter	Emily C Sims	Rease Kirchner
Bio: Alex is the founder of Travelated. He is an Internet marketing expert as well as an amateur chef and poker player. He would rather be thrown out of a window from the top of the Empire State Building than work in an office ever again. Alex currently resides in Las Vegas, and his favorite place in the world is anywhere he can watch a soccer match. View all articles written by Alex	Twitter: @Travelated @emilycsims Bio: Emily is a recovering cubicle monkey, former obituary writer, and ex-yuppie. In her free time, she volunteers for Wings of Hope and pretends like she knows how to use her fancy camera. Emily has lived all over the United States and France and currently resides in Las Vegas. Her favorite place in the world is Isla Espiritu Santo in La Paz, Mexico. View all articles written by Emily	Twitter: @TravelatedRease Bio: Rease is a US citizen who fled the Midwest in favor of ex-pat life in Buenos Aires, Argentina. After 1.5 years of living and working abroad, she has recently relocated back to the US for a new adventure that doesn’t involve working in an office. She is bilingual and is very capable of cussing you out in Spanish. She loves gaining and sharing knowledge of local cultures, customs and adventure, and she especially loves getting sassy with anyone who gets in her way. Her favorite place in the world is any artisan ice cream shop in Argentina. View all articles written by Rease

Site Director
-Alex

Content and Social Media Manager
–Emily

Content Manager
-Rease

Alex Ritter

Emily C Sims

Rease Kirchner

Bio: Alex is the founder of Travelated. He is an Internet marketing expert as well as an amateur chef and poker player. He would rather be thrown out of a window from the top of the Empire State Building than work in an office ever again. Alex currently resides in Las Vegas, and his favorite place in the world is anywhere he can watch a soccer match.

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Twitter: @Travelated @emilycsims
Bio: Emily is a recovering cubicle monkey, former obituary writer, and ex-yuppie. In her free time, she volunteers for Wings of Hope and pretends like she knows how to use her fancy camera. Emily has lived all over the United States and France and currently resides in Las Vegas. Her favorite place in the world is Isla Espiritu Santo in La Paz, Mexico.

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Twitter: @TravelatedRease
Bio: Rease is a US citizen who fled the Midwest in favor of ex-pat life in Buenos Aires, Argentina. After 1.5 years of living and working abroad, she has recently relocated back to the US for a new adventure that doesn’t involve working in an office. She is bilingual and is very capable of cussing you out in Spanish. She loves gaining and sharing knowledge of local cultures, customs and adventure, and she especially loves getting sassy with anyone who gets in her way. Her favorite place in the world is any artisan ice cream shop in Argentina.

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Travelated Interns

Nichole Manna

Nichole is a senior at Middle Tennessee State University majoring in Journalism and double minoring in Global Studies and Political Science. She hopes to one day travel the world and learn how to say “where’s the toilet?” in as many languages as possible. While studying in her family’s homeland, Italy, she learned two very important lessons: there’s nothing better than eating blood orange gelato in front of the Pantheon and wine really is just grape juice.

Chiara Tarenzi

Chiara Tarenzi is a poltical science student in Milan, Italy, hoping to become a very obnoxious journalist some day. She has a very large family split apart by the Atlantic Ocean: one side in Italy and the other in Philadelphia. She is a total american wannabe so BEWARE! She is also a beginner runner of half-marathons (very slow!) and intends to travel all over the globe to race and explore. Her favourite place in the entire globe has to be Crans Montana, an adorable small town hidden in the Swiss mountains.

Regular Guest Bloggers

Erin Michelson

Erin Michelson is a social entrepreneur and world traveler. A self-styled Adventure Philanthropist, Erin is embarking on a 2-year global giving adventure called Erin Goes Global. Starting in Fiji on New Year’s Day 2011, Erin Michelson will travel to more than 70 counties on 7 continents during 2011-2012. Along the way, Erin will be volunteering with global non-profit organizations, including building wells in Uganda and tutoring young girls in Bangladeshi boat villages. She’s donated $25,000 and is holding monthly polls to see which worthy nonprofits receive the grants! You can follow Erin’s living and giving adventures at www.GoErinGo.com.

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Follow Erin on Twitter: http://twitter.com/GoErinGo
Find Erin on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Erin.Michelson1#!/ErinGoesGlobal

Sydney Stonner

Author Sydney Stonner is addicted to traveling. After studying journalism and music at the University of Missouri (where she studied abroad twice), she worked for a time as a newspaper reporter. Now, she is living in Hong Kong teaching English to primary school students. So far, she has visited 15 countries and hopes to visit many, many more. Visit this site to follow Sydney’s adventures.

Mark Twain described the importance of traveling beautifully. He said, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness. Broad, wholesome, charitable views cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth.”