Matthew Kepnes - Ten Years a Nomad: A Traveler's Journey Home — at Politics and Prose at The Wharf
On a trip to Thailand in 2005, Kepnes realized that his career and all that went with it—car, house, mortgage—could wait. Planning to spend a year seeing the world before settling down, he ended up staying on the road for a decade. Now, with more than 500,000 miles and 90 different countries under his belt, Kepnes, who runs the travel site NomadicMatt.com, looks back over his experiences, telling vivid stories about places and people, reflecting on the deeper meanings of wanderlust, and showing how much travel can teach us about the world and ourselves.