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A “Vagabonding Audio Companion” remix of a GFU study-abroad podcast.
Vagabonding audio companion: How to study abroad (even if you aren’t a student)
Fear, family, and walking the Camino de Santiago (live with Andrew McCarthy)
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Author and actor Andrew McCarthy on walking across Spain with his son.
15 insights from Jonathan Gottschall’s book “The Storytelling Animal”
1) Reading stories is an act of imagination for the reader Like Tom Sawyer whitewashing the fence, authors trick readers into doing most of the imaginative work. Reading is often seen as a passive act: we lie back and let writers pipe joy into our brains. But this is wrong. When we experience a story,…
Travel burnout is a real thing (and it’s OK to feel it sometimes), with Matt Kepnes
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Matt Kepnes on how to preempt (and deal with) travel burnout on the road
What we hope to see in places can be at odds with reality
This image from my trekking journey in Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands figured into the recent Deviate episode wherein Ari Shaffir and I discussed the idiosyncrasies of travel onstage at KGB Bar in NYC. Specifically, we talked about the tourist desire to see a “pure” vision of distant cultures, and how years of working with travelers in…
The Mystical High Church of Luck: Decoding Las Vegas (with Ari Shaffir)
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Ari Shaffir and Rolf discuss the power of luck (and the peculiarities of Las Vegas)
How travelers create quests and find community (online book club remix)
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Rolf and his online book club discuss quests, guidebooks, and other issues from The Vagabond’s Way.
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…