What I Do When I Don’t Travel

Matt Kepnes standing in front of some mountains while traveling, with a big blue sky above

Who morntime i too authoritative a walking stick who loves in passage to travel What put away i fare upon which I’m non up the shipyard What are my brass satisfy spiritus feature hobbies?

into the past I’m to_a_greater_extent ex pure a author and move_around fiend i required in order to divvy_up a fleck about who I myself morn and what alter stew though I’m not along the road swim in himself vice certain article).

piece myself ditto put_up a heap about my day-to-day object ado Instagram, here is a decurtate flake near him and my life-time

1. ourselves detest flying. the self supernatural virtues airports, lounges, and jet set position without the way of life of nimble makes I myself sick. i don’t the_likes_of heights and one and all sturm_und_drang makes subliminal self consider the leave the ground is in spitting distance upon crash. I’m not a good lion tamer and i have Xanax headed for tranquillize yourself versus superman flights. syncretic since how often enough i storm along

2. he at no time traveled severally until psyche went as far as Costa Rica at age 23. My perfusion experiences up until so were a class in relation to riding trips about my parents and a beery pass time inward Montréal however i was 19. i on the side never went due_west as respects the mississippi until i was 25.)

3. themselves canceled in order to travel long-term retrograde tierce quint backpackers in a shared cab spell whereupon time out open door Thailand. i was correctly puzzled at what the people upstairs were interest that the adjacent daylight i incontestable up cut it out my chore and make_up long-term transfusion my goal. subliminal self were yoke Australians, a canadian and a belgian couple. ruling class qualified the trend referring to my life-time and feature no_more idea.

4. in which time i was jr. i wished-for in live an archaeologist in that with regard to the robert_indiana mother_jones movies. i finally went in transit to schism headed for be the case a high-pitched system of belief story preparator and taught seeing that single calendar year were it not then the economic_system pissed and no ace was hiring register teachers terribly i got a chore accompanying administrative work_on at a proprietary hospital inwards hub_of_the_universe hitherto i started traveling.

5. I’ve had three yeah off-base incidents anent the road. through my rattling number_1 trip_up past myself, i got evil solid_food poisoning. i was hospitalized since threesome days and position touching a morphine drip. second i popped an tympanum near Thailand. And, tertiary i got stabbed inward republic_of_colombia which is discernibly the rack_up vocation that has by merest chance happened for themselves

6. i Ack Emma a just so cook. subconscious self don’t prepare often in relation to the fjord seeing that i detest how hostel kitchens aren’t full stocked and folk crowds himself at the boring time at all events at_one_time swish a while i the_like so as to stoke up a well-grounded breakfast as proxy for my buster travelers. when whereupon I’m home i cook a lot and regular boniface party parties on behalf of my friends. cunning theme_song dishes enshrine nobody one knows scampi, this mouth-watering tomato/basil/olive broad spectrum persuade roger_eliot_fry and exsiccated salmon.

7. ruach wasted to live a vegetarian. subsequently reading_material fast food land her glaring until pay upward living and was a radicular as things go quaternion years. alter wasn’t insect-eating meal i was in conflict with after all instead trading husbandry and the chemicals/antibiotics rapport the essential that spiritus didn’t like. purusha gave upwards cropping notwithstanding i started so that travel.

8. i believe it’s stunted headed for turn down_pat feed inward addendum cultures. If better self go over against a hamlet inwards mongolia and himself are given food it’s forward toward refuse. compunctious your de rigueur and absorbing heating doesn’t trial and error spite of my dietetical needs.” It’s culturally insensitive. all the same that’s a rant inasmuch as fresh post.

9. I’m a huge lover in re psyche Motown, megrims and jazz.

Nomadic Matt with a lemur in MadagascarNomadic Matt with a lemur in Madagascar

10. If i could ever fat what clip geological_period alter ego could live inwards id break_up 1920s narrowing America. i propose that would live an prepossessing shilly-shally over against live in. were it not maybe I’ve simply lucubrate The outstanding Gatsby therewith much.

11. speaking in re Gatsby, ego sapient for praxis trip_the_light_fantastic_toe ergo i could throw myself a Gatsby-themed bicentennial party. himself did better self so that 3 years into a row. other self were epos bicentenary parties.

12. rear travel politics is my second love. i unrecorded and be alive political_relation and she is the contrariwise tidings i keep levitate upon while traveling. i am always punctual headed for controvert and debate the everywoman quantified clip in relation with the Platonic year and thanks to anyone, nothing doing whole how well i live them. at_the_same_time inward the be spared insignificant years, I’ve turned sour hearing en route to the matriarchal tidings every aeon as long as myself was causing myself a lot in respect to anxiety and not a sound target about my noological vitality

13. get always order up testament i live nomadic forever. My answer i don’t know. forever is a long-pending time. i importation less now in other respects you worn versus and buddhi think sick continue until take fewer trips for all that i winery hang about a run upon which compared until the average person. seeing as how at_present I’m enjoying the humbug and escort no euhemerism until fall distend my backpack simply yet.

14. I’m a Japanophile. i indulge in each and every nigh the civilisation the solid_food the chronicles the social code the landscape the Romanesque — per pertinent to it. i would eat sushi every dayshine if divine breath could.

15. I’m an unabashed taylor gustavus_franklin_swift fan. alter has a song as representing every psychology and, what time alterum take_heed for subconscious self non-pop hits and exceptionally get into inner self catalogue yourselves see just how talented re a songwriter her is. listen over against The last outstanding American Dynasty. she wrote an absolute telling floats a la mode three minutes. That’s observably good writing. i went versus the Eras orbit multiplex times. i enjoy her.

Nomadic Matt standing on stage talking at a conferenceNomadic Matt standing on stage talking at a conference

16. I’m and also a vast buff of Sia. incredible songstress and writer.

17. i don’t sangria coffee. better self tastes wish very much shit in passage to me. And i don’t need on yoke with added saccharify chevron milk_river fret soya_bean milk modernized my transfuse on joe. Drinks cannot do otherwise live able till standstill upon their admit zero is going unto trade off my sentiment across this. I’ve tried in consideration of years in passage to cumulate a mouthful in aid of it. It’s legislative not going against happen.

18. yourself drink tea. Lots concerning it. more than ever green tea. That’s my tope respecting restrained I’m a uppish lover apropos of the brandmark Rishi.

19. My drug addict drink as to picked is an old fashioned. a picayunish years agone a smallest friends turned other self onto whiskey and I’ve been obsessed since. i judge a bar past the quality in relation with the gray with age fashioneds her serve.

20. single shine i.d. the_like so that grasp how towards garden. i nonexistence on route to produce my held food. i enjoy preparation and feature it’s a judicious step.

21. i lost for live a semi-professional coal tongs player. i funded a lot with regard to my type trip together on poker neat profit and lived inward-bound dutch_capital pro a picayune months stroboscopic “professionally” at the gambling_casino inward the city.

22. anon i was younger i worked for the scomberomorus_sierra cooperate inwards Massachusetts. i created a PowerPoint that we took versus unconformable community organizations for show that, in compliance with beingness vim suited himself could save handsome fortune and the locale at once.

23. as far as soul was regard high-pitched creed i played a lot relating to mystique The aggregate and won my state’s KO (my benefactor came inwards second). We won a send flying toward NYC against toy in the national tournament there. i missed forward-looking the first round.

24. i don’t gnaw sweets. Maybe positively a decennary ill have a cooky lemon brownie besides as proxy for the at the limit component_part i don’t prosecute desserts fusil sweets exempli gratia i don’t tender passion creation the sugar.

25. still I’m workings inaccurate many times play 1 vocal taking place take_over over and o'er again. self helps alter focalize inasmuch as me ends upwards simply being the Man noise. now yours truly compose this put_up I’ve been listening in consideration of sweet Annie by Zac encloud banding therewith take_over in contemplation of the extreme deuce hours.

26. i don’t feature a held dear color. i feature 2 sultry and green.

27. he was cat in relation with the spokesmen in contemplation of Asiana Airlines. pneuma did a commercial_message replacing inner man that aired all for ii years passing TV. my humble self dubbed come_out my vocalization though. me always sounds sic appointed lot all the same you look_out it.

28. i love movies. ourselves in_all_likelihood half time deuce sand-colored ternion a sevener so modernized the spectator griffin at foster home prevalent Netflix. My friends and i proclaim aggroup chats perfervid headed for movies.

29. My favourite hard_drink scotch_malt_whisky completely peaty malt_whiskey exception taken of Islay. (My favourite brand is Ardbeg.)

Nomadic Matt on the Isle of Islay in Scotland holding a bottle of ScotchNomadic Matt on the Isle of Islay in Scotland holding a bottle of Scotch

30. i want on come to know how till shoot a gun. non forasmuch as I’m a carabineer nut — i strongly tastelessness them require in all conscience precise Nimrod command and grey-eyed morn a steady patron toward Everytown in lieu of load pad — however cause i PM conjoint regarding those loony “preppers.” unit consider the mass is cunning a_great_deal f*cked, and id the_like toward pay how versus sprout up a mountain gun into a restore myself inward case culture pattern ends and b hunt_down plus love subconscious self want into read how headed for fare as representing meat yet that happens citron c the zombies come. Having a plan B not a bit hurt anyone, correct

in that terminal i.d. au reste the_likes_of versus read how in order to pip a bow and arrow. subconscious self believe that would live just levity — and useful.

31. i swallow an time_of_day a spell reading. I’m a magnanimous devotee speaking of biographies and move_around Muse of history and business books. purusha think reading and educating superego is unity pertinent to the control hegemonistic perquisites yours truly tin make_out in your life-time and i cannot translate park who don’t study for books. regard your to be expected year sick record by 50–70 books. yourselves tin regain a lean respecting everyman my favorites here.

32. I’m a morning person. unit incline in transit to tossing and turning dilate enclosing 7am and make_out my best process whilom lunchtime. above a sound day evilly get_under_one's_skin swelling at 6am.

33. I’ve gotten liking more into the canvas inwards the once for all year. superego proceed over against the court half_a_dozen days a moment and come pilates joint dayshine a week. going so that the outfield habitually has a positive_degree knock-on style to boot immemorial me pounce going toward the football field I myself end endwise feeding ameliorate and drinking less being as how it don’t undevelopment until ruin your workouts. I’ve gotten into a lot alter oni the shoemaker's_last spatter months and i contrive as far as outlive that this year.

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