2022-10-06
1 小时 4 分钟Travel in a big way really becomes about the conversation with home and what it could be.
It allows you to see new potential, ultimately in new potential about how you can live at home.
You don't have to travel for the rest of your life.
Some people will, most people won't.
But travel allows you to reinvent the conversation that you have with your own community in a way that is beneficial for yourself, but also for that community.
So traveling the world, especially for an extended period of time, that may feel like a luxury dream about, or maybe you can only do every few years or longer.
But what if there was actually a way to make it happen and way sooner and for less money than you ever imagined?
Or what if there was a way to evoke that sense of wonder and curiosity and discovery that travel brings out of us without even leaving your immediate neighborhood, what would it look like to keep the spirit of the journey or travel alive at home, using it to engage with and learn from the community that's right in front of us in new and meaningful ways?
Well, my guest today, Rolf Potts, is a firm believer in the life altering benefits of travel, even if that means heading just a few blocks outside your normal routine, and how we can use adventure as a metaphor for life itself.
And I'm excited to dive deeper into his philosophies and stories about life and travel and wonder.
And as a travel writer and author, Rolf's adventures, they've taken him across six continents, over 60 countries, where he's reported from major outlets like National Geographic Traveler, the New Yorker, the Guardian, and NPR, so many others.
He even spent six weeks traveling around the world without a single piece of luggage once.
Rolf is perhaps best known for promoting the ethic of independent travel, and many of his essays have been selected as notable mentions in the best american essays, the best american non required reading, and the best american travel writing.
And he shared much of his wisdom and travel stories in his books vagabonding an uncommon guide to the art of long term world travel, and his newest release, the Vagabonds way 366 meditations on wanderlust, discovery and the art of travel.
And in our conversation today, we explore Rolf's experiences and also strategies for doing immersive travel in a meaningful way, uncovering the ways anyone, even those who feel like they can't travel or those who legitimately cannot travel, can use this vagabond mindset.
It's almost like a philosophy of living and exploring and discovering to disrupt their routines at home.
And we touch on a few moments of adventure and curiosity that have shaped each of us and inspired us as well.
So excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
I'm curious, actually, what the last couple of years have been like for you because, I mean, so much of your time for so many years have been spent on the road, living, traveling, writing, reporting.