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Rolf and his online book club discuss quests, guidebooks, and other issues from The Vagabond’s Way.
How travelers create quests and find community (online book club remix)
Your first vagabonding journey remains in conversation with the travels that follow
Exactly 10,603 days days ago this week I packed a few belongings into a second-hand 1984 Volkswagen Vanagon (into which I’d built a homemade fold-out bed), and embarked on a journey across North America that wound up lasting eight months. Nowadays this endeavor is known as #vanlife, but in that pre-hashtag era it was (for…
Art introduces us to places before we go there (live from the Faroe Islands)
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From the Faroe Islands: translator Matthew Landrum on how place informs art
Travel can be a way to see the future (and experience the past), with Kevin Kelly
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“”I wasn’t partying. I wasn’t relaxing on the beach. I was photographing – working – every minute of the day. That was a means to see as much as I possibly could. And to keep looking.” –Kevin Kelly In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Kevin discuss the ambitions and connections that led Kevin to Asia…
“Kansas: Shall We Civilize Her or Let Her Civilize Us?” by Irvin S. Cobb (1923)
By Irvin S. Cobb I. From time to time, as I stated in a preceding booklet of this series, it is customary for Bill Al White to strum his typewriter and burst into rhapsody on the merits of his State. “I shall sing a few stanzas A-touchin’ on Kansas,” he cries, or ringing words to…
The best age to travel is whatever age you are now (an online book club remix)
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A remix of Rolf’s first discussion of The Vagabond’s Way with The Nomadic Network book club
Seek out global connections while you’re still at home (with Kristin Van Tassel)
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On the joys of getting lost, learning languages, and interacting with distant cultures at home.
Six of the best Deviate podcast episodes about sports (so far)
One of the reasons I created my Deviate podcast was to occasionally explore cultural and intellectual themes that go beyond the travel issues I typically write about. Since I’ve been intrigued with sports since my preschool days on a summertime swim-team (and, later in my youth, soccer teams and running clubs) in Wichita, many Deviate…
A Native American football team beat the 1927 NFL Giants: The story of John Levi
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Native American football star John Levi takes on the 1927 New York Giants
Why you go someplace is less important than just going (with Tony Perrottet)
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Travel writer Tony Perrottet on the idiosyncrasies of ancient Roman tourists.
Justin’s “Grateful Acre” fable, from Will Arbery’s “Heroes of the Fourth Turning”
The grateful acre was created when God created the Earth. The grateful acre was grateful to wake up one day and realize that it was an acre. God smiled upon it and the grateful acre was grateful. It was grateful when dirt appeared upon it. Even though the dirt made the acre feel heavier, the…