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All Travelers are Created Equal

I was looking over my interview with Rolf Potts and thinking about how he talks about the false distinction travelers make among themselves. How we compete to prove who’s a better traveler or how we aren’t like “the tourists.” And it got me thinking. In what is only a make believe competition, you see many [...]


Travel First Starts At Home

If you think travel is something that only happens when you take overseas plane flights, long bus rides or cross-country train trips, you’re missing out on a world of opportunity much closer to home. Of course you’re forgiven for associating the idea of traveling exclusively with foreign lands, exotic food and curious dress habits, that is [...]


The Secret to Long Term Traveling

I get a lot of emails asking me for my secret. They read the posts about how I manage to travel but still wonder. What am I leaving out? What, they ask, is my secret to escaping the cubicle and being a nomad? So sick of these email am I that I am finally going [...]


Interview with Rolf Potts

Rolf Potts is one of the most famous modern travelers writers out there. He burst onto the scene with his book, Vagabonding, and since then, the book has become a must travel for first time travelers. Rolf has, in many ways, become the face of modern backpacking. He recently took time out of his busyschedule [...]