In this one-of-a-kind handbook, veteran travel writer Rolf Potts explains how anyone armed with an independent spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel.

“Thought-provoking, encouraging, and inspiring” (Gretchen Rubin) reflections on the power of travel to transform our daily lives—from the iconoclastic travel writer, scholar, and author of Vagabonding.

Drawing on several millennia of examples — from the relic-driven quests of early Christians, to the mass-produced tchotchkes that line the shelves of a Disney gift shop — travel writer Rolf Potts delves into the complicated history of souvenirs.

In this reflective found-audio memoir, Rolf examines how meeting his soulmate during the Covid-19 pandemic (not long after a near-fatal motorcycle accident in Asia) has come to reinvent the way he experiences and understands nostalgia.

An audiobook about how (not) to write a travel book: 9 key lessons from a deep-dive into Rolf’s failed 1995 van-life memoir, which predated — and set the stage for — his eventual bestselling debut book, Vagabonding.

A found-audio collage memoir recounting the personal history of Swizzlefish, Rolf’s grunge-bandwagon band, and the Pacific Northwest Christian college that made it stand apart from similar zeitgeist rock acts.

How one nearly forgotten 1920s publisher’s “little blue books” created an inexpensive mail-order information superhighway that paved the way for the sexual revolution, influenced the feminist and civil rights movements, and foreshadowed the age of information.