TEN YEARS A NOMAD

In TEN YEARS A NOMAD, Matt Kepnes draws on his decade of experience as a professional traveler. The result is a book with heart that transcends the basic "how-to" of travel in order to get at questions of "why now" and "what for."

Matt Kepnes has built one of the best brands in the travel industry, one that reaches millions of people every month through his travel website nomadicmatt.com. Now, Kepnes is poised to build off the success of his New York Times bestselling first book, How to Travel the World on $50 a Day. TEN YEARS A NOMAD has at its core the stories of the seminal experiences Kepnes had while on the road, traveling over 500,000 miles and staying in 1,000 different hostels in 90 different countries. If you travel that much, especially the way Mat does, you are going to end up with some amazingly formative stories - and this book is packed with them.

Beginning with the trip to Costa Rica that shook him out of the doldrums of his early-twenties life, Kepnes goes on to recall formative friendships among backpackers in Thailand, a poker-playing guru in Holland, and experiencing travel burnout in Australia. Drawn from a decade spent circling the globe as a professional traveler and filled with the color and perspective that only hindsight and self-reflection can offer, these stories transcend the basic "how-to" of travel in order to plumb the depths of "why now" and "what for." TEN YEARS A NOMAD gets to the real questions at the heart of wanderlust.


Matthew Kepnes runs a award-winning budget travel site and has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian UK, AOL's Wallet Pop, CNN, and Yahoo Finance. He was also featured in the new edition of Blogging for Dummies.