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Travel-TV host Ernest White II on the nuances of Kansas, and what home reveals about travel
Vagabonding audio companion: Love, finding home, and telling TV travel stories
“The Philosophy of Travel,” by George Santayana
Has anyone ever considered the philosophy of travel? It might be worth while. What is life but a form of motion and a journey through a foreign world? Moreover locomotion- the privilege of animals- is perhaps the key to intelligence. The roots of vegetables (which Aristotle says are their mouths) attach them fatally to the…
Sometimes, Paris travel-writing class exercises can yield celebrity sightings
This image is the result of a free-writing exercise my wife Kiki led near the Louvre, during the 2022 Paris Writing Workshops. Kiki is a classically trained actress, and she drew on her stage skills to create an exercise where students lingered near the Louvre, attempting to describe people in their journals without using adjectives,…
“On the Ice”: What it’s like to live and work at Antarctica’s McMurdo Station
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The joys and challenges of living and working in Antarctica, with Karen Pszonka
A Critical Race Theorist’s guide to writing smut novels, with Dr. Kevin Harrison
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Kevin Harrison on storytelling from places and people we don’t typically hear about.
Nicholas D. Kristof’s case for using indie-travel guidebooks (from 1986)
“Good Digs in Timbuktu” By Nicholas D. Kristof (an excerpt) It was the slow train to Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso in West Africa, and it had just stopped at the border of the Ivory Coast. Among the mango sellers alongside the train, I found two Canadians who were headed in the same direction.…
Traveler ideals, hospitality, and the disappearance of an Italian priest in Syria
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The life and disappearance of Father Paolo Dall’Oglio and his travelers’ sanctum in Syria
Refuse to be Done: The art of creative persistence for long-haul projects
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Creative persistence: The art of writing (and finishing) better long-form narratives
“Picturesque World”: Intro to The Best Travel Writing, Vol. 11
By Rolf Potts Most any journey can, at moments, have a way of making a traveler feel like he’s navigating a blurred line between present and past. Walk through the urban slums at the outskirts of modern Mumbai, and you can get a sense for what New York’s Lower East Side might have felt like…
Marcia DeSanctis on revisiting places, souvenirs, and travel as self-reinvention
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Marcia deSanctis on revisiting places, souvenirs, and travel as self-reinvention
The Vagabond’s Way: Ballantine to release Rolf’s new book in October of 2022
I am happy to announce that my new book, The Vagabond’s Way: 366 Meditations on Wanderlust, Discovery, and the Art of Travel, will be released by Ballantine Books in October of this year, and is available for preorder from your favorite local or online bookstore. Information about promotions, book-tour events, and a tie-in Deviate podcast…