Ceirra Pipher tells PEOPLE that she devotes all of her "time and energy" to seeing the world and saving up to do it
Ceirra Pipher
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- Ceirra Pipher quit her job as a bartender in New York City to pursue traveling in a full-time capacity and documenting her journeys on social media
- Prior to her career pivot, the 29-year-old was already spending nearly half of her time visiting places around the world; in 2025, she went to nine different countries
- For years, Pipher reaped the benefits of credit card points and smart savings to make her journeys financially feasible on a nightlife industry income
Three months ago, Ceirra Pipher quit her job in the nightlife industry to pursue traveling and creating content as a full-time career.
The decision was a long time coming for the 29-year-old, who also recently ended her lease in New York City and moved back to the rural Pennsylvania area where she grew up. In part, she moved to spend more time with her sister's young baby, but Pipher's life has also evolved into a shape that no longer fits into the city.
In 2025, Pipher visited a total of nine countries, and she tells PEOPLE that her "ridiculously expensive" rent started to feel like a waste considering how much time she spent away from her home base.
Ceirra Pipher
"I'm usually gone two weeks out of every single month, so I was like, 'It's stupid for me to be paying this much money for an apartment while I'm constantly gone,' " she shares. "I was like, 'You know what? Screw it. I travel all the time, and I'm just going to start making content. I'm going to give it my all.' "
Between her TikTok and Instagram pages, where she posts with the username @CeirrasGotBaggage, she currently boasts over 13,000 followers. And while her most viral videos count millions of social media users as viewers, Pipher is only just starting to lean into content creation as a way to earn money.
Until very recently, she managed to make her travel dreams come true solely on the income from her bartending gig. Banking up airline credit card points and strategically saving proved to be her keys to freedom and self-sufficiency
"I just try to devote all of my time and energy to it. I guess when people want maybe new clothes or they want whatever it is, I choose to put my money towards flights," Pipher notes to PEOPLE. "It's just about priorities."
Her travel style is especially impressive considering that almost all of her trips are planned spontaneously. She says she plans trips by simply "crawling Google Maps or Google flights" and searching for flight deals to see how she can best utilize her points. "That generally determines where I'm going to go," says the content creator and photographer.
She admits that she didn't always have such a grasp on financially feasible travel. Pipher explains she "grew up super poor," so she wasn't exposed to the costs of international flights until adulthood.
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At first, while getting the hang of budget travel, Pipher boarded cruises that allowed her to see multiple places in one trip for a single fee. "That way I didn't waste a large chunk of my money going to one island and only seeing one thing," she adds.
Now, she alternates between solo traveling and bringing along both family and friends, and she adjusts the amount of time she's gone depending on the location. Last year, she spent only one week in Guatemala and one week in Colombia, but she spent about a month in Africa, where she spent time in Zambia, South Africa and Mozambique.
"The plane ticket is the biggest hurdle," Pipher observes. "There are so many people that are just scared to buy a $1,000 plane ticket, but most of the time when you do that, it's like you get to the destination and it's affordable. Some of the countries obviously have a higher cost of living than the United States does, but generally it's affordable once you finally get there."
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