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Live from Bali: How tourists, influencers, and nomads transform destinations (for good and for bad)

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Live from Bali: How tourists, influencers, and nomads transform destinations (for good and for bad)
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How tourists, influencers, and nomads transform destinations

Vagabonding audio companion: Obnoxious travelers (and how to avoid being one)

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Vagabonding audio companion: Obnoxious travelers (and how to avoid being one)
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Ugly Americans (and non-Americans) on the road, and how to avoid being one

What you discover when you walk down every single street in New York City (encore)

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What you discover when you walk down every single street in New York City (encore)
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Matt Green walked across America, then walked down every street in NYC. This is his story.

A history and future of digital and biological technology, with Jane Metcalfe

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A history and future of digital and biological technology, with Jane Metcalfe
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“We need positive visions of how all this technology gets deployed, because what we visualize is what we build.” –Jane Metcalfe In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Jane talk about the pioneering work she did with Wired during the dawn of the “digital revolution” (3:00); how and why Jane’s professional focus shifted away from digital…

Bicycling across the USA (with no money or food) looking for human connection

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Bicycling across the USA (with no money or food) looking for human connection
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Filmmaker Daniel Troia talks about his experience of biking across the USA with no food or money

Wonder Year: The Art of Long-Term Family Travel and Worldschooling

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Wonder Year: The Art of Long-Term Family Travel and Worldschooling
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Insider tips for family vagabonding and worldschooling

How Rolf Ruined the 1990s: A personal history of my grunge-bandwagon band

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How Rolf Ruined the 1990s: A personal history of my grunge-bandwagon band
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Rolf reflects on the music of Elliott Smith, Nirvana, and his own Pacific NW grunge band, Swizzlefish

Walk and Talk: Notes from a peripatetic salon across northern Thailand

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Walk and Talk: Notes from a peripatetic salon across northern Thailand
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An ambulatory field report from a “Walk and Talk” moving salon across northern Thailand

Essential tips and strategies for telling travel stories, with Andrew McCarthy

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Essential tips and strategies for telling travel stories, with Andrew McCarthy
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Essential tips and strategies for telling travel stories, with Andrew McCarthy

What it’s like to spend a full year traveling within a day’s radius of your home

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What it's like to spend a full year traveling within a day's radius of your home
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What it’s like to spend a full year traveling within a day’s radius of your home, with Alastair Humphreys