He first discusses how taking an overly romantic view of travel can actually diminish your enjoyment of traveling. Today on the show, Rolf explains the vagabonding ethos, which involves slowing down, being open to surprises, and really paying attention to your experiences. Twenty years later, he’s back with a new book - The Vagabond’s Way - with reflections on the more philosophical side of that kind of travel which you can take on any type of trip. After exploring the world for years, he wrote a book called Vagabonding, which laid out the practicalities of how to execute long-term travel. My guest, Rolf Potts, thinks there’s a better way to approach travel. Travel can often be approached as just another consumer good travelers quickly dive in and out of a place, check off the things they want to see, harvest the requisite pictures to prove they were there, and wear their trip as a status symbol.
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