Rolf Potts

1) Unplugged travel is the best travel Abandon your mobile phone, laptop, iPod, and all such links to family, friends, and work colleagues.

Shahnaz Habib is the author of Airplane Mode, a cultural history of travel, and the translator of the Malayalam novel Jasmine Days, which won the JCB Prize 2018.

Since remote antiquity, for all kinds of reasons, people have left home and hit the road.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education, in the elder, a part of experience.

Megan Harlan is an American travel writer, essayist, and fiction writer who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and Brittany, France.

Interview by Don George You are usually referred to as a “travel writer,” and your books are shelved in the “travel books” area of bookstores, but you are hardly a conventional travel writer.

By Roy Peter Clark Good writers move up and down the ladder of abstraction.

Oliver Smith is an award winning travel journalist based in London.

The title of this book is not my own creation: It is a direct quote from an inmate I met at Bangkok’s women’s prison in January of 1999.

At some point, writers of creative nonfiction come to a road block or dead end in our writing, where we don’t have access to the facts we need to tell our story or to sustain our reflection with depth and fullness.

Zoey Goto is a journalist and author covering culture and travel, all things Americana, vintage style, musical icons and mid-century pop culture.

My father had an idea for a children’s book.

I’m sitting at a café in Detroit where in the door window is the sign with the commands NO SOLICITING NO LOITERING stacked like an anvil.

Jonathan (Jon) DeHart is a Tokyo-based writer focused on travel, culture and society in Asia.

Always use the word ‘Africa’ or ‘Darkness’ or ‘Safari’ in your title.

The faces with anticipated youth look out from the current identifications, judge or salesman, the neighbor, the man who killed, mattering only as the sliding world they betoken, the time it never mattered to accumulate, the fact that nothing mattered but…

Aaron Millar is an award-winning travel writer, broadcaster and author.

By Phillip Lopate In writing memoir, the trick, it seems to me, is to establish a double perspective, that will allow the reader to participate vicariously in the experience as it was lived (the confusions and misapprehensions of the child one was, say),…

Late last year I had the honor of participating in a seven-day, 100-kilometer “Walk and Talk” across northern Thailand.

Bart Schaneman is an editor at The Daily by Outdoor Retailer, focused on business news for the outdoors industry.

At the height of the Covid pandemic a few years ago, when Kiki and I were dreaming of travel to Kenya, we became fixated with the Lets Drift Instagram account, which depicted the hiking adventures of young Kenyans in the gorgeous landscapes of their own c…

One cool thing about traveling through Kenya last summer was the number of fellow-travelers we met who were visiting from other parts of Africa.

Though people have been dreaming up “Bucket Lists” to help focus their travel and life goals for as long as the concept has existed, I have never consciously created one.

Mike Nixon is an author, world traveler, and entrepreneur who has been traversing the globe for nearly two decades.

One intriguing aspect of traveling through the desertlike landscape near north Kenya’s Ndoto Mountains was the opportunity it provided us to meet fellow travelers.

Claire Polders is a Dutch author of fiction and nonfiction.

“Staged authenticity” is a term coined by anthropologists to describe how, within the tourist economy, indigenous people perform a version of their culture that caters to the expectations of tradition-obsessed outsiders.

Marlin Darrah is perhaps the world’s most traveled filmmaker.

Tharik Hussain is an author and travel writer specializing in Muslim heritage and culture.

Nguher Zaki is a multidisciplinary creative with a penchant for storytelling and traveling.

Ketti Wilhelm writes the sustainable travel blog TiltedMap.com, which helps people minimize their environmental footprint, support locals with their travel budget, and live more sustainably at home.

This image, taken a few years ago at the Go Viral festival, a SXSW-style “influencer” gathering in Kazakhstan, evokes an anecdote I share on page 166 of The Vagabond’s Way.

Michael McCarthy is the author of two dozen travel books.

Internet cafes were so central to the lives of long-term travelers 20 years ago that my memories of vagabonding through Asia in the late 1990s and early 2000s are inseparable from occasional stop-offs in these little storefronts full of dial-up-connected…

Sarah Stodola is the author of two books — The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach (2022), and Process: The Writing Lives of Great Authors (2015).

1) Reading stories is an act of imagination for the reader Like Tom Sawyer whitewashing the fence, authors trick readers into doing most of the imaginative work.

This image from my trekking journey in Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands figured into the recent Deviate episode wherein Ari Shaffir and I discussed the idiosyncrasies of travel onstage at KGB Bar in NYC.

Kat Lewis is a fiction writer and video game narrative designer based in Seoul.

Rick Antonson has traveled on trains in thirty-five countries and is co-author of a book of railway stories, Whistle Posts West: Railway Tales From British Columbia, Alberta, and Yukon.

Exactly 10,603 days days ago this week I packed a few belongings into a second-hand 1984 Volkswagen Vanagon (into which I’d built a homemade fold-out bed), and embarked on a journey across North America that wound up lasting eight months.

Nora Dunn (aka The Professional Hobo) is one of the original digital nomads and lifestyle travel bloggers, having started her full-time travel lifestyle in 2006.

By Irvin S.

Nick Hunt is the author of three travel books about walking and Europe – Outlandish, Where the Wild Winds Are and Walking the Woods and the Water – a work of ‘gonzo ornithology’, The Parakeeting of London, and a collection of short fiction, Loss Soup and…

One of the reasons I created my Deviate podcast was to occasionally explore cultural and intellectual themes that go beyond the travel issues I typically write about.

Emily Pennington is Outside’s parks and travel columnist.

The grateful acre was created when God created the Earth.

As 2023 gets underway, I’ve resolved to be less “virtually present” on social media, and more emotionally present in my own life.

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My newest book, The Vagabond’s Way: 366 Meditations on Wanderlust, Discovery and the Art of Travel, debuted in October, with a series of virtual and live events in places like New York, Kansas, and San Francisco.

My book The Vagabond’s Way has a mini-chapter entitled “The Definition of ‘Traveler’ is Broad (and Vibrant),” which examines the notion that “middle-class folks from industrialized countries aren’t the only people taking journeys.”