Matthew Kepnes

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Matthew Kepnes
BornJune 12, 1981 (1981-06-12) (age 43)
OccupationTravel writer
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Matthew Kepnes is an American travel blogger also known by his online alias Nomad Matt. [1] [2] [3]

Kepnes was born in Boston. [4] He attended the University of Massachusetts to become a history teacher and graduated in 2003. [5] At 23, he had never left the United States [4] but in 2005 he took a trip to Thailand. [6] [7] The trip convinced Kepnes to quit his job, finish his MBA, and begin traveling the world and blogging about his experiences. [8] [9] [10]

Kepnes' first book, How to Travel the World on $50 a Day: Travel Cheaper, Longer, Smarter, was published in 2013 by Penguin. [11] A second edition was published in 2015 and was a New York Times bestseller. [12] He used an initial coin offering to crowdfund his eBook Nomadic Matt's Guide to Backpacking Europe in 2018. [13] In July 2019, Kepnes published his memoir, Ten Years a Nomad: A Traveler's Journey Home. [14]

Kepnes has traveled to more than 100 countries. [5]

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