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Rolf Potts

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Books by Rolf

Podcast: Deviate with Rolf

Vagabonding audio companion: Obnoxious travelers (and how to avoid being one) October 22, 2024
What you discover when you walk down every single street in New York City (encore) September 17, 2024
A history and future of digital and biological technology, with Jane Metcalfe August 8, 2024
Bicycling across the USA (with no money or food) looking for human connection July 16, 2024
Wonder Year: The Art of Long-Term Family Travel and Worldschooling June 11, 2024

Recent Blog Posts

Notes on my (never published) first travel book, part VI: On depicting places November 7, 2024
Notes on my (never published) first travel book, part V: On veering from the truth October 24, 2024
On sharing a truck with 11 other people (plus chickens & yams) in Vanuatu October 17, 2024
Notes on my (never published) first travel book, part IV: On recounting dialogues October 10, 2024
To keep cultural traditions active, Vanuatu kastom dances are sometimes performed for tourists October 3, 2024
Notes on my (never published) first travel book, part III: On depicting other people September 26, 2024

Travel Writer Interviews

Travel Writer: Laura Kiniry November 1, 2024
Travel Writer: Rosie Bell October 1, 2024
Travel Writer: James Michael Dorsey September 1, 2024
Travel Writer: Shahnaz Habib August 1, 2024
Travel Writer: Megan Harlan July 1, 2024
Travel Writer: Oliver Smith June 1, 2024

Rolf Potts

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The Vagabond’s Way

The Vagabond’s Way

Lands of Lost Borders

Tools of Titans

The 33 1/3 B-sides

Vagabonding

Souvenir

Marco Polo Didn’t Go There

The Misadventures of Wenamun

The Geto Boys (33 1/3)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sports, superstitions, and sacraments: A Deviate Super Bowl Special (2024 remix)

Travel Writer: Laura Kiniry

Travel Writer: Rosie Bell

Travel Writer: James Michael Dorsey

Travel Writer: Shahnaz Habib

Travel Writer: Megan Harlan

Travel Writer: Oliver Smith

Travel Writer: Zoey Goto

Travel Writer: Jonathan DeHart

Travel Writer: Aaron Millar

Travel Writer: Bart Schaneman