Travel mini-series: Nomadic Matt’s travel hacks
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Forhecz Topher
4.6 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
In the fourth and final episode of our special mini-series on travel, Lilah talks with Matt Kepnes, the creator of the popular travel blog Nomadic Matt. Matt has been traveling the globe for nearly 20 years, and he’s written about it in his books How to Travel the World on $50 a Day and Ten Years a Nomad. Over the years, Matt has amassed a knowledge of all the best ways to see the world without spending a fortune. And on this episode, he shares those tips and more.
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Links:
– Matt is on Twitter and Instagram at @NomadicMatt
– The Nomadic Matt blog: https://www.nomadicmatt.com/
– Matt on how to earn points by paying your rent: https://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-blogs/bilt-rewards-review/
– 11 cheap places to travel on the US dollar: https://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-blogs/cheap-places-to-visit-on-the-us-dollar/
– The flight deal websites Matt recommends are Scott's Cheap Flights and Holiday Pirates
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This episode was produced by Zach St Louis. Mixing and sound design by Breen Turner.
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| 0:31.4 | Hi, FT. Weekend, listeners. Welcome to the final episode of our mini-series on travel. |
| 0:37.6 | This week, I speak with Matt Kepness. He's better known as Nomadic Matt. That's the name of his popular travel blog. |
| 0:39.9 | He has been traveling the world for almost two decades on a budget. |
| 0:43.9 | He's written about it in his book How to Travel the World on $50 a Day and his memoir, |
| 0:49.1 | Ten Years a Nomad. |
| 0:50.5 | And I invited him on to the last episode just to talk tips, all the tips, how to get good deals on flights, how to get points, how to choose a destination, how to save money when traveling. |
| 1:01.6 | It's full of great stuff. |
| 1:03.0 | So, this is FT Weekend, the podcast, special travel edition. |
| 1:07.4 | I'm Lila Raptopoulos. |
| 1:09.1 | Let's go. |
| 1:14.1 | Matt, welcome to the show. Thank you for being here. |
| 1:16.4 | Thanks for having me. So you are the keeper of many best kept travel secrets. I would love to |
| 1:22.3 | learn your ways. But first, before we start, you know, this is like a huge question. But why |
| 1:27.4 | should we travel? |
| 1:29.6 | It just exposes you to a lot of new ideas. But I think more importantly, it shows a shared humanity. |
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