Yesterday's New Hampshire Sunday News featured my story on Matthew Karsten, a Granite State native who is traveling the world indefinitely while blogging about his adventures.
Karsten was working as a nightclub photographer in Miami when he read a book about long-term world travel. For the next year, he pared down his lifestyle, sold off belongings and banked as much cash as he could in preparation for what began as a yearlong, around-the-world journey.
"I felt like I needed a change of scenery, new excitement, but more than just a two-week vacation," he said. "I really needed to do something drastic."
He embarked for Mexico in November 2010 and spent the next year exploring that country and Central America. Living on about $30 a day, he has traveled mostly by bus and slept in hostels, camped out or bunked with locals.
Karsten supports his travel habit with an online business and modest advertising revenue from his blog, expertvagabond.com. His blogging caught the eye of South African tourism officials, who invited him to chronicle his adventures for two weeks there. He left yesterday and plans to seek input from his blog readers and social media followers about how to spend his days.
After a holiday break in New Hampshire, Karsten plans to resume his wanderings, possibly in South America. "I'll keep traveling as long as I can earn an income or until I get bored with it," he said. "And I don't see that happening anytime soon."
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