Archive for July, 2010
Ten Quotes About Walking
Share Today wrote a a query letter to a magazine editor about an article about different walks that a person can take in Taiwan. While looking up quotations to use in the query I suddenly remembered how much I used to enjoy walking. When I first started traveling, whenever I arrived in a new city, [...]
Check Out This Month’s Action Asia Magazine
Share Check out this month’s Action Asia magazine for my profile of one of Taiwan’s most prominent and longstanding foreign paragliding pilots, Malcom Vargas.
A Good Year for Awards (I Won Another One)
Share Damn, it’s been a good year for awards. Today I was notified that I was chosen as one of the top fifty travel blogs of 2010 ) by Awarding the Web — an organization that strives “to recognize excellent web content so that those who have worthwhile content can be distinguished from the useless, [...]
Watch it Now: Illegal Border Crossing Simulation from VBS.tv
Share The good folks at VBS.tv are, in my opinion, some of the best documentarians in the world. They go after ridiculous and unthinkable stories gonzo style, resulting in a humanistic view of incredible tragedies, and incredibly weird topics. A couple months ago I posted the riveting, and extremely disturbing, Vice Guide to Liberia. Next, [...]
A Sad Canada Day
Share For the first time in my life, I’m ashamed to be Canadian. We Canadians are overwhelmingly proud of our country. Why shouldn’t we be? For all of its shortcomings Canada has often (although not always) shown itself to be a fair country, especially when dealing with civil disturbances and inner conflicts. The police reaction [...]
I'm a travel writer and photographer currently based in Tainan, Taiwan where I founded and edited Xpat Magazine, one of Taiwan's largest and longest-running expatriate periodicals. My writing and photography has been published in various print and online publications including Taiwan Today, the Taiwan Fun Magazine Group, and TransitionsAbroad.com. I speak English, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese (to varying degrees) and am available for assignment. I can be reached through the form on the contact page of this website, or at xpatmatt (at) gmail.com.
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