Rolf goes to Las Vegas with $5 in his pocket, discovers the Mystical High Church of Luck — and ends up losing $100.
Letter from Korea: September 1997
Commentary: Simon Peter once found that a relatively small amount of faith allows a man to walk on water, but he was never faced with the more relevant prospect of navigating intersections in a city where 15.5-ton Hyundai buses careen four abreast down streets originally designed for oxcarts.
A review of Robert Bly’s The Sibling Society
Book Review: Robert Bly’s The Sibling Society is the latest doom-oracle for those born after the advent of polyester clothing. Conveniently, society is never as good as it was during the time when a given doomsayer came of age, and everything since has been a slippery slide on the downward spiral.
Paul Theroux on reading, teaching, and slow travel in Mexico [encore]
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Paul Theroux on aging, slow travel, and the inherent complexity of Mexico
How inexpensive countries are the secret to prolonging the journey [encore]
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Planning long-term journeys around the world’s cheapest destinations, with Tim Leffel
Lost in the Valley of Death: The life and disappearance of Justin Alexander
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Journalist Harley Rustad on the mysterious disappearance of Justin Alexander in India.
A mixtape (of sorts) about mixtapes: Music as intimate communication
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Rolf and his friends recall the bygone rite of making cassette mixtapes to share with friends
Holiday Special: Celebrating the Sears Christmas Wish Book [encore]
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The Sears Christmas Wish Book was (truly) great American literature (with Tod Goldberg)
Digital nomadism [bonus]: How technology has changed the way we travel
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In this bonus outtake from “The Nomads,” Rolf talks about how technology affects travel.
Van Life before #VanLife (encore): Revisiting a classic USA road trip
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Rolf recounts his first 8-month vagabonding trip 27 years ago.
Tales from the vagabonding trail: Discussing “Marco Polo Didn’t Go There”
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Rolf discusses his travel book “Marco Polo Didn’t Go There” with the Nomadic Network book club.