{"id":62,"date":"2006-08-04T14:37:24","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T19:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theworldbyroad.com\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/04\/kudos-to-matt\/"},"modified":"2007-03-03T05:01:24","modified_gmt":"2007-03-03T10:01:24","slug":"kudos-to-matt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldbyroad.com\/expedition\/2006\/08\/04\/kudos-to-matt","title":{"rendered":"Kudos to Matt&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently made aware of a few different sites and documentaries that exist that are pretty great.&nbsp; Sometimes I get a little nervous that our idea is not as unique as we originally thought, but the best part is that all of these other people doing things similar to us are only furthering our goals of inspiring people to get more interested in the world.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite that I have seen so far is a guy named Matt who got sponsored by a chewing gum company to dance around the world, and his video short is a fun and quite creative way to showcase is diverse amount of travelling.&nbsp; His video is below.<br \/> <object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bNF_P281Uu4\" \/><embed width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bNF_P281Uu4\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><\/embed><\/object> <\/p>\n<p>Although we plan to try to stay on a less travelled path, this documentary seems to do a great job of exploring the backpacker subculture.&nbsp; &quot;A Map of Saturday&quot; looks like an exciting take on the backpacker trail around the world.&nbsp; The trailer looks quite interesting, I am excited to see how the documentary turned out.&nbsp; Check out the trailer below.<embed width=\"350\" height=\"272\" align=\"top\" src=\"http:\/\/amapforsaturday.com\/images\/amapforsaturday.mov\" autoplay=\"false\"><\/embed><br \/>Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>Steve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently made aware of a few different sites and documentaries that exist that are pretty great.&nbsp; Sometimes I get a little nervous that our idea is not as unique as we originally thought, but the best part is that all of these other people doing things similar to us are only furthering our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[895],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-before-the-world-by-road"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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