How do folks find the time and the money (at the same time) to travel this much? I'm envious.
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Money, and lots of it.
But do we really know what is wrong with Matt, what he is suffering from, or if there is even a cure? Can any of us really know how horrible it is to be Matt? Would any of us forgo our current lives and accept the suffering that is Matt just to be able to put a video up on YouTube?
There is always a cost.
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But do we really know what is wrong with Matt, what he is suffering from, or if there is even a cure? Can any of us really know how horrible it is to be Matt? Would any of us forgo our current lives and accept the suffering that is Matt just to be able to put a video up on YouTube?
There is always a cost.
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If you visit his personal website he explains what his priority is, traveling.
Yeah sure he's a programmer but I imagine his current residence is rather sparse.
Times get rough, perhaps he'll move back in with mom and dad or a sibling?
I imagine many of us might be a bit too proud or polite to do that.
Our priorities are different.
Yeah sure he's a programmer but I imagine his current residence is rather sparse.
Times get rough, perhaps he'll move back in with mom and dad or a sibling?
I imagine many of us might be a bit too proud or polite to do that.
Our priorities are different.
ya think he moved out, do ya?hyldemoer wrote:If you visit his personal website he explains what his priority is, traveling.
Yeah sure he's a programmer but I imagine his current residence is rather sparse.
Times get rough, perhaps he'll move back in with mom and dad or a sibling?
I imagine many of us might be a bit too proud or polite to do that.
Our priorities are different.
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Denny wrote:ya think he moved out, do ya?hyldemoer wrote:If you visit his personal website he explains what his priority is, traveling.
Yeah sure he's a programmer but I imagine his current residence is rather sparse.
Times get rough, perhaps he'll move back in with mom and dad or a sibling?
I imagine many of us might be a bit too proud or polite to do that.
Our priorities are different.
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At his personal website http://wherethehellismatt.com/about.html it explains the publicity from dancing during his first tour granted him sponsorship to tour a second time.
Putting too much emphasis on that sponsorship for the second tour misses the point of the whole story.
Travel lite, fly standby, eat cheap, sleep at hostels, and be ready to make friends of people you normally wouldn't give the time of day and yeah, you can travel the world for not much money.
How Matt does it http://wherethehellismatt.com/faq.html
Most of us are too in love with our material possessions and our sense of pride that we're responsible enough not to burden our families, friends, and perhaps total strangers should we become ill.
Putting too much emphasis on that sponsorship for the second tour misses the point of the whole story.
Travel lite, fly standby, eat cheap, sleep at hostels, and be ready to make friends of people you normally wouldn't give the time of day and yeah, you can travel the world for not much money.
How Matt does it http://wherethehellismatt.com/faq.html
Most of us are too in love with our material possessions and our sense of pride that we're responsible enough not to burden our families, friends, and perhaps total strangers should we become ill.
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I did know someone quite awhile ago who worked and saved enough money to go surfing around the world. He did live very cheaply because he had this one thing he really wanted to do. And he did it.
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That rock in Norway between those two cliffs---that would not be a spot you'd find me standing on no matter how safe.
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I think the guy is great (OK maybe not a real Fred Astair). I can't figure out if most of the negative comments aren't simply as a result of jealousy. I reckon that by buying the right 'round the world' plane ticket, leaving out the side trips to the Shetland Islands and Antartica, using local transport an following hyldemoer's "Travel lite, fly standby, eat cheap, sleep at hostels" advice, anyone could do that trip pretty easy for about $10-15K. A young guy with no major expenses could save that in a year in a decent job. He says on his site that he worked in Brisbane.
Bring along your instrument and do a bit of busking and you could probably do it for less. Musicians worldwide tend to look out for other travelling musicians...The other line that stuck out on his website was "Matt thinks Americans need to travel abroad more." I tend to agree with him.
Bring along your instrument and do a bit of busking and you could probably do it for less. Musicians worldwide tend to look out for other travelling musicians...The other line that stuck out on his website was "Matt thinks Americans need to travel abroad more." I tend to agree with him.
