Out the Door – 10 Tales of Adventure
One day, Matt shouldered a backpack and stepped out the door, to a world of travel writing and adventures. Over the five years that followed, he ventured through ten countries and three continents, from the lofty peaks of the Himalayas to the arid wastes of the Gobi desert. On rickety Soviet-era sleeper carriages and futuristic Japanese bullet trains he began to discover that travel was not always glamorous and that the rough tales could inform him just as much as the smooth. Follow along in ten stories, as Matt travels by train, boat, bus, rickshaw, camel, flippers, and his own two feet to explore the world and slake his thirst for adventure.
Matt is now writing his second book ‘The Longest Road’. It is a travel memoir that immerses the reader in his epic journey driving the Pan American Highway. This route, also known as the world’s longest road, runs from the top of North America to the bottom of South America. Over two years, Matt drove 50,000 kilometres through 15 countries from the edge of civilisation in the Canadian Arctic to where the road ends in southern Patagonia.
On this expedition, he survived armed robberies by the Mexican cartel, ice roads in the Arctic, frost-biting temperatures in the Yukon, van towings, civilian mobs, police bribes, desert breakdowns, militia roadblocks, high-altitude highways, floods, landslides, food poisoning, scorpion stings, hospital visits, boat crossings, vehicle crashes, and adversities beyond imagining.
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