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Updated : 01/02/18 | January 2nd, 2018 A few weeks ago, I reviewed the movie A Map For Saturday. As you know, I loved the movie. I got in contact with the director/star, Brook Silva-Braga, and fresh from his trip in Africa, he was kind of enough to give me an interview. Nomadic Matt: You took your trip in 2005. What made you decide to video tape it? What kind of reactions did you get on the road? Brook: Well I had been working at HBO for a while and the only reservation I had about leaving for a year was what it would mean for my career. So bringing the camera was a way to say to myself, ‘See, you aren’t throwing away your career.’ People reacted well to the camera especially once I learned to wait a while before bringing it out. It also distinguished me a bit from the rest of the crowd but I think people didn’t really imagine what I was doing would end up in theaters and on TV, I was just a guy with a camera. In the movie, one of the central themes you hear...

Posted: 09/08/2014 | September 8th, 2014 When I first started blogging, I came across a website called The Art of Non-Conformity . It was by this guy on a personal quest to visit every country in the world before he turned 35 years old. That guy was Chris Guillebeau. I began to follow his adventures intensely — as a traveler, the idea of watching someone visit every country in the world was inspiring (I’m doing the same thing but on a much, much, much slower time scale). Over the years, Chris and I have become friends and have run into each other in multiple spots around the world. A few months ago, Chris told me about his new book, The Happiness of Pursuit . It examines why people begin quests and what others can learn in order to set off on their own. As travelers, I feel we are often each on our own quests, so his book intrigued me and, while I criss-crossed Europe last month, I read his book. For those familiar with Chris, you’ll recognize a lot of themes he’s talked about ...