Update: Spring 2020

Friends and vagabonders, I’ve been writing these updates for more than two decades now – it’s something I’ve been doing for such a long time that, in the age of continually updated social media, a website Update page feels downright anachronistic. Yet for all the years I’ve written travel-updates from various corners of the world,…

Update: Fall 2019

Friends and vagabonders, As 2019 nears its end, I wanted to check in and recap some of the things I’ve done and places I’ve traveled this year. From traversing the Indonesian island of Sumatra (as well as Sri Lanka, Dubai, and the Republic of Georgia), to speaking at the Kazakh equivalent of TED Talks, to…

Update: Winter 2019

Friends and vagabonders, Twenty years to the month after my first international vagabonding journey, I have embarked on another multi-month adventure through Asia. Back in 1999 the journey began in Bangkok, lasted nearly three years, led to my first book Vagabonding, and was largely chronicled in my second book Marco Polo Didn’t Go There. I…

Update: Spring 2018

Friends and vagabonders, Here’s a rundown of what I’ve been working on of late — including my Deviate with Rolf Potts podcast; my new book, Souvenir; and upcoming creative writing classes in Paris and Santa Fe.   Podcast: Deviate with Rolf Potts Deviate, which debuted last November (and has since surpassed a quarter of a million downloads), features engaging, off-topic…