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Five Awesome Travel Quotes(0)

April 12, 2010

Share In no particular order: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu “One’s destination is [...]

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Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac and Ernest Hemingway Review No Country for Old Men

Share This piece, originally written for, but never published by, McSweeney’s Internet Tendencies has been one of the most popular pieces on this website ever since I first posted it, and has received many compliments. Hunter S. Thompson The theatre was dark and reeked with the stench of a hundred overfed accountants gorging on chemical [...]

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Music With a Message: A Brief History of Protest Music in North America

Share Scratch Magazine June, 2004 Music has long been used by the poor and oppressed to lift spirits and communicate messages of social change. From the African-American slaves of the deep south singing soulful, subtly rebellious, gospel hymns, to Zach de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine belting out “We gotta take the power [...]

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Thank You and Goodbye

Share Xpat Magazine March, 2008 I’m sitting here at my desk gazing out the window, trying to put to paper some kind of goodbye letter for my last issue behind the wheel of Xpat. But as I reflect on my time working on Xpat, and in Taiwan, I’m filled with a single emotion: gratitude. So, [...]

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About Me

Matt GibsonI'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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