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Travel-writing icon Tim Cahill on the counterintuitive rules of adventure travel.
Uncertainty makes for the truest adventures (aka Tim Cahill’s Travel 101)
Traveling solo opens up new possibilities in a place (with Stephanie Rosenbloom)
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Author Stephanie Rosenbloom on going solo, and savoring travel experiences.
Keeping a journal helps you make sense of the journey (with Lavinia Spalding)
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“Writing Away” author Lavinia Spalding on why you should journal when you travel
Faroese art isn’t exclusive to museums in Tórshavn
The setting of the Listasavn Føroya, the Faroe Islands’ little national art gallery, can at times feel less like a museum than the parkside home of a person who really enjoys art. Michigander Matthew Landrum, who translates Faroese poetry into English (check out his translation of Katrin Ottarsdottir’s Are There Copper Pipes in Heaven), was…
Paul Theroux on the merits of travel and the paradoxes of the global economy
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Paul Theroux on his novel “The Bad Angel Brothers,” and the contradictions of the global economy.
Oh me! Oh life! by Walt Whitman
Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish, Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?) Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever renew’d, Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid…
Seeking real crowds beats crowdsourcing (from The Vagabond’s Way book launch)
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Rolf and Ernest White II talk about using what money you have to create the life you want.
How does one determine what counts as a “visit” to another country?
For travelers seeking to keep track of how many countries they’ve visited, a common question is: What, exactly, counts as a “visit” When Kiki and I hiked through the Finnskogen region of Norway, for example, the trail took us across the border into Sweden’s Värmland province, before it looped us back into Norwegian territory a…
Preconceptions can blur what you see firsthand on the road (with Eddy Harris)
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Legendary travel writer Eddy L. Harris on why an attitude of “let’s go find out” is a great travel ethos.
Travel deviations can be as appealing as travel plans, with Ari Shaffir
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Ari Shaffir talks about why getting lost on the road can be a good thing, as presented in Rolf’s new book, The Vagabond’s Way.
Seeing 1950s American culture through Norwegian eyes at a Sørum car club
It took a trip to Norway, of all places, for me to learn of an American car known as the “Vagabond” — a proto-hatchback manufactured by Michigan’s Kaiser Motors in the late 1940s. One curious thrill of travel is the opportunity it offers you to see your own country through the eyes of another culture.…