Ten Years a Nomad by Matthew Kepnes - Bookin' It With Jen

I went into reading this expecting a typical travel memoir filled with humble-brag type adventure stories. Instead it is much more, an honest, behind the filter peak into the realities of long term travel.

Social media shows us all the glamour and romance of traveling but never the difficulties, and that’s what Matt has done with this memoir. From his first intimidating but life changing trip to Costa Rica to the inevitable loneliness that comes from a life without permanency, to feelings of inadequacy and career/responsibility driven anxiety, this book is REAL. The most important part of this book was his acknowledgment that it is not only okay and even necessary to come home, but that putting down roots doesn’t have to mean the end of adventure. Life is what you make it. Finishing the book you realize it was a sort of epitaph for his days as Nomadic Matt, and a rebirth of Matt Kepnes.

Thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for providing me with a copy of this book to review. All opinions are my own.