How a man who moved to Taiwan to pay off his student loans turned traveling the world into a career
He was looking for a way to pay off his student loans.
Gibson, now 36, graduated with about $10,000 in student loan debt, and had been working planting trees to try and earn some extra cash when he met a man whose girlfriend was in Taiwan, teaching English to pay off about $70,000 of her own student loans. His new friend quickly joined her.
"At the end of the season I emailed him and he said, 'Come on over,'" Gibson remembers.
Over ten years later, Gibson is still on the move, working as an adventure travel writer and photographer.
You can follow his adventures on his website, XpatMatt.com, or through his Instagram @xpatmatt.
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