I’m Nicki.
A memoir writing, photo taking, stage performing, storytelling, craft beer drinking, left-leaning, anti-racist, sewing, painting, drawing, mustard loving, opinion having, question asking, fanny pack wearing, language studying, deeply loving, pirate joke telling, blogging, video-making world traveler.

Growing up, I constantly heard stories about the Peace Corps in Paraguay from family friends; I always begged for more and more stories. Stories I so badly wanted to be my own. My family didn’t even have passports. But I knew what I wanted, and that was to make stories of my own.
I craved the world I didn’t yet know but could feel in my bones I would one day be a part of. The first time I went abroad, I was 20; a semester in Seville, Spain. After the program ended, I traveled alone throughout Western Europe. I came home that summer with travel further cemented in my mind, and waited for graduation day to finally begin my journey.
Since then, I have taught English in South Korea, Brazil, and Argentina. I studied film in the Philippines and graphic design in Italy. I sold fruit at a roadside stand in New Zealand, poured pints at pubs in Australia, and spent the pandemic in the country of Georgia. I trained across Russia on the Trans-Siberian and walked across Spain on the Camino de Santiago. I studied yoga and Ayurveda at an ashram in India. I speak Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Korean.
I spent all of 2022 in the country of Argentina (with a side trip to Peru), traveling from north to south, getting to know this amazing country better.
WHERE I AM NOW:
I am currently in Colorado, USA!
WHY I BLOG:
With this blog, I hope to show you some of my own travel adventures, as well as help you get started on your own. Many people assume that it costs lots of money to travel, or that long-term travel is totally out of the question for them. That is a huge misconception. I want to inspire you and show you that you too can travel and live all across the world, without having a trust fund.
I love to help people get started traveling on their own and provide a ton of information on my YouTube channel, as well as provide 1×1 travel consultations. I also wrote a travel guide about Buenos Aires which has been extremely successful since its launch. You can also find my many city guides on the Thatch app.
WHERE ELSE YOU CAN FIND ME:
Find me on my YouTube channel, Nicki Posts Travel Stuff. I’m also on Instagram offering tips about traveling to various global locations.
You can also see a more personal side of things over at my Substack monthly newsletter. Sign up below to get it in your inbox each month:
WHERE I’VE LIVED
North America
Colorado – where I grew up
Washington D.C. – I did an internship for the Embassy of Uruguay
Miami – I worked at the University of Miami with international students
South America
Brazil – I was an English teacher in Santa Cruz do Sul for 5 months
Argentina – I taught English in Buenos Aires at 23 years old. I returned many years later to spend the entire year of 2022 traveling across the entire country.
Europe
Spain – I studied for one semester at the Universidad de Sevilla
Italy – I lived in Florence for two years. One year to study graphic design, and one year to do an artist residency.
Georgia – I spent 14 months living in Tbilisi and traveling around the country.
Asia
South Korea – I taught English in Busan for four years
Philippines – I went to film school at the International Academy of Film & Television in Cebu
Oceania
Australia – I got a working holiday visa and worked in a pub and an art store.
New Zealand – With a working holiday visa, I traveled around the country camping and working on farms.
WHERE I’VE VISITED
North America
Bahamas
Canada
Costa Rica
Cuba
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Mexico
Nicaragua
United States
Puerto Rico
South America
Argentina
Brazil
Paraguay
Peru
Uruguay
Oceania
Australia
New Zealand
Europe
Austria
Belgium
Czechia
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Slovakia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
Vatican City
Asia
Armenia
Cambodia
China
HongKong
Taiwan
Georgia
India
Indonesia
Israel
Japan
Jordan
Mongolia
North Korea
Palestine
Philippines
Russia
South Korea
Thailand
Turkey
Vietnam
Africa
Morocco
Tanzania (Zanzibar)
MY WORLDLY BUCKET LIST
Asia
Drive a scooter around Sri Lanka
The Gates of Hell in Turkmenistan
Northern mountains in Pakistan
Live on an ashram in India
Africa
Victoria Falls in Zambia
Travel through Ethiopia
Tunisia
Desert Trek in Algeria
Europe
Walk the Camino de Santiago via Portugal
Walk the Via degli Dei in Italy
Walk the Camino de Santiago via Spain
Participate in the Mongol Rally from England to Mongolia
Travel the entire Italian coastline
Stonehenge
Transsiberian Train across Russia
North America
Mexico City on September 16
The Grand Canyon
Joshua Tree
Death Valley
See the Canadian Rockies
South America
Travel extensively through Suriname, Guiana, and French Guyana
The Chilean Coast
Visit the Atacama Desert
The Uyuni salt flats in Bolivia
Oceania
Walk across Tasmania
Work on farms in New Zealand
Antarctica
Cross the Drake Passage to reach Antarctica
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