About me

HI I'm Matt, I run the award-winning budget travel site, Nomadic Matt, and wrote the New York Times best-seller: How to Travel the World on $50 a Day among other books.

After a trip to Thailand in 2005, I decided to quit his job, finish my MBA, and head off into the world. My original trip was supposed to last a year. Over a decade (and nearly 100 countries) later, I'm still out roaming the world. I've scuba dived in Fiji, was a poker player in Amsterdam, taught English in Thailand, got lost in a jungle in Central America, and broke down in the middle of Australia's outback.

My writings and advice have been featured in The New York Times, CNN, The Guardian UK, Lifehacker, Budget Travel, BBC, Time, Yahoo! Finance and countless other publications. I regularly speak at travel trade and consumer shows and founded a non-profit called FLYTE, which sends students overseas to bring their classroom experience to life. I'm also the founder of the travel media school, Superstar Blogging, and of the TravelCon travel media conference.

When not traveling the world, I live in Austin.