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Posted: 4/30/2020 | April 30th, 2020 It takes a village to keep this website going. From tech and coding to design to fixing bugs to getting readers their books when downloads fail to scheduling social media or running the forums, I have a lot of help. I simply couldn’t run the website, write, travel, eat, sleep, or anything in between if I didn’t have the support and help of an amazing group of people. It’s not just me writing and posting about my travels. I have a big group of full-time staff helping juggle everything. I’ve realized a lot of you don’t know that so, today, I want to introduce the team to you. So, without further ado, here they are:   Erica Erica has been working for me for almost six and a half years and is the events director of The Nomadic Network, our travel community. She keeps this community thriving. In her own words: I grew up in Connecticut and went to school in Virginia. During a quarter-life crisis at age 21, I ch...

Posted : 10/29/15 | October 29th, 2015 Earlier this year, I read the book Turn Right at Machu Picchu by Mark Adams, about his quest to follow Hiram Bingham’s trail through Peru. It made me want to jump on a plane right then and there and gave me an insight to Peru I never knew before…and it gave a whole list of off the beaten path places to visit! After I read his new book, Meet Me in Atlantis , I cold e-mailed Mark for an interview. He was hesitant at first, but I persisted and got to speak to him while he was in NYC! After fanboying out over his books and taking a few selfies, we got to the interview: Nomadic Matt: Tell everybody about yourself. How did you get into travel writing? Mark Adams : I grew up outside of Chicago and studied English in college. I went off to grad school thinking I was going to be an English professor, but after getting my master’s, I took a year off and tended bar. One night a friend of mine said she’d met the managing editor of Outside mag...

Updated: 12/20/2018 | Posted: 12/5/2012 A lot of people say you need to have a well-paying job in order to afford your trip. But Michael (age 27) never had one of those, yet he still managed to save $14k in six months while on making $9 USD per hour! When he told me his story, I knew he was perfect for this week’s success story. He epitomized the idea that anyone can find the money for travel. So, without further ado, let’s meet Michael and find out how you save so much money while making so little! Tell everyone about yourself. I was living in Austin, Texas, before I became a citizen of the world. I had always wanted to take a year off and travel. I had taken small trips overseas in the past and would meet so many travelers who were taking months or years off to travel. Those people put the idea in my head that maybe I could travel for extended periods of time too. When I graduated from college, I spent a year and a half looking for a teaching position but couldn’...

This month’s interview is from Moon Guidebook author William Friar. He is their Panama author and shares his insights on this rapidly developing country and what he thinks is in store in the future. Nomadic Matt: How did you end up as a guidebook writer? William Friar: This will really annoy anyone who’s trying to break into guidebook writing, but I’d never even thought about it until a publisher found me and offered a contract for an adventure-travel guide to Panama. I’d grown up there and had recently published a coffee-table book about the Panama Canal, which helped establish my credibility. I was also a newspaper reporter, which suggested I could write and maybe even make the occasional deadline. The pay was pathetic but somehow I got hooked. I’ve now written three books just on Panama — the second edition of my Moon Handbooks guide came out in November. I always think each project is going to be my last, but I keep coming back to guidebook ...