Cool Stuff: Where The Hell Is Matt?

My brother Adam "introduced" us to Matt about two years ago (sometime right around our Kilimanjaro climb) when he sent us Matt's first video (below)

We already had plans of course for being world travelers in our life together, and had both done a fair amount of travel (with the time we each spent in Germany, my travel to Italy and France and China, our trip to Mexico together, etc.)...

Other than the fact that this is just cool, our interest in travel was the other reason Adam sent the video.

I say all that, to say that Matt's first video was interesting, encouraging, and quite inspiring to us.

Well, Matt's just completed a 2008 video of his world travels.

At this point, you may be asking "Who in the hell is this Matt? Do Carrie and Jonathan know him?"

Nope. Not yet.

But he's a guy who went on a world trip, and everywhere he went, he did this goofy dance.

He videoed the whole experience, spliced it together into one clip of him dancing at various world locations, sent it out to some people, and the video went viral, getting millions of views.

Stride Gum contacted him and said "How would you like to travel the world on our dime?"

He said "Okay!" (Who wouldn't?) And took another big trip around the world, doing the goofy dance everywhere he went, and posted the video up on YouTube and a bunch of other places online.

That's when we "met" Matt (back in 2006).

Maybe someday we'll actually get to meet him, but for now his story is awesome to us... that he took the trip, that he made the video, that Stride is a smart marketing company (see how many times I've mentioned Stride Gum in this post - maybe you had never heard of them before, but now you have)... just the whole thing is really fun and neat.

We hope it's inspirational and motivational for you too.

Alright. Without further ado, here are Matt's "Dancing" videos.

Dancing 2008