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Travel memoir lab: How your journeys can inspire fictional adventure stories

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“That first day in Mumbai, there was the slum to the side of us, there were sports cars that would have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars next to people walking with no feet next to 200 people crammed into a bus. Separating those layers in a nuanced way lifts the writing that shows that…

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The best journeys explore mindscapes as well as landscapes (book club remix)

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Seek places where your very presence makes you interesting (book club redo)

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Authenticity, the wisdom of place, and how to act off the beaten path (Vagabond’s Way online book club, redo of e229)

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Seek places where your very presence makes you interesting (book club remix)

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Authenticity, the wisdom of place, and how to act off the beaten path (Vagabond’s Way online book club)

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Travelers experience more when they slow down and ask lots of questions

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Tourist zones, scams, slow travel, and the ethics of taking photos (Vagabond’s Way online book club)

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Travel can return you to a kind of childhood (online book club remix)

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Everything feels new at the outset of a journey (online book club remix)

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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.