A few months into his trip, Matthew and a friend were taking pictures in Hanoi, and his friend said ‘Why don’t you stand over there and do that dance. I’ll record it. He was referring to a particular dance Matthew does. It’s actually the only dance he does and he does it badly. Anyway, this turned out to be a very good idea because if Matthew hadn’t agreed to dance at that moment, then the following story would never have happened.
Things settled down again, and then in 2007 Matthew went back to Stride Gum with another idea. He realized his bad dancing wasn’t actually all that interesting, and that other people were much better at being bad at it. He showed them his inbox, which was full of emails from all over the planet. He told them he wanted to travel around the world one more time and invite the people who’d emailed him to come and dance with him.