Rolf Potts

There is something curiously ephemeral about theater: Actors bring a specific world alive onstage for a few weeks or months, then that world vanishes when the play finishes its run.

Pico Iyer has published 15 books, on subjects ranging from the Dalai Lama to globalism, from the Cuban Revolution to Islamic mysticism.

Bob Payne is a freelance travel writer who has visited more than 140 countries and had his work appear in such publications as Outside, Men’s Journal, Islands, and Bon Appétit.

Bruce Kirkby is an adventurer, writer and photographer.

The setting of the Listasavn Føroya, the Faroe Islands’ little national art gallery, can at times feel less like a museum than the parkside home of a person who really enjoys art.

Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish, Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)

For travelers seeking to keep track of how many countries they’ve visited, a common question is: What, exactly, counts as a “visit” When Kiki and I hiked through the Finnskogen region of Norway, for example, the trail took us across the border into Sweden…

Travis Levius is a freelance travel writer and content creator loosely based between London and Atlanta.

It took a trip to Norway, of all places, for me to learn of an American car known as the “Vagabond” — a proto-hatchback manufactured by Michigan’s Kaiser Motors in the late 1940s.

Human beings are more alike than unlike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.

Matt Kepnes runs the award-winning travel site nomadicmatt.com, which helps people travel the world on a budget.

(an excerpt) Why is travel so exciting?

Of the many pleasurable travel moments I found amid my August 2022 journey through Norway, I got a curious thrill out of the afternoon I spent dozing in this hammock, alongside a forest-fringed lake not far from Sørumsand.

Has anyone ever considered the philosophy of travel?

This image is the result of a free-writing exercise my wife Kiki led near the Louvre, during the 2022 Paris Writing Workshops.

Heather Greenwood Davis is a contributing editor/on-air storyteller for National Geographic, a feature writer/columnist for The Globe and Mail, the travel expert on CTV’s national talk program The Social and co-host of Get, Set, Go!

“Good Digs in Timbuktu” By Nicholas D.

Stuart McDonald is an Australian travel writer based in Indonesia.

By Rolf Potts Most any journey can, at moments, have a way of making a traveler feel like he’s navigating a blurred line between present and past.

I am happy to announce that my new book, The Vagabond’s Way: 366 Meditations on Wanderlust, Discovery, and the Art of Travel, will be released by Ballantine Books in October of this year, and is available for preorder from your favorite local or online bo…

Every time you leave home, Another road takes you Into a world you were never in.

Tim Bascom is author of a novel set in the Philippines, two collections of essays, and two prize-winning memoirs about years spent in East Africa as a youth: Chameleon Days and Running to the Fire.

No one perhaps has ever felt passionately towards a lead pencil.

Anne P.

(an excerpt) Some people have asked, “Why does it matter to me in Chicago if some tribe in Africa disappears?”

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John Krich was raised in New York City, lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for 30 years before 20 years in Asia, some working as a feature writer and food columnist for the Asian Wall Street Journal.

One of the reasons I named my podcast Deviate (as opposed to, say, Vagabonding) is that I wanted the creative freedom to veer away from the travel issues I’ve covered as a journalist for the past two decades, and explore other intellectual themes.

“One of the things that young writers falsely hope exists is inspiration.

Daniel Stables is a freelance travel writer based in the United Kingdom.

1) On the twenty-year gap in generational nostalgia In the seventies, people lived the fifties, reminiscing over the preordained conclusion that it had been a better time to be alive (Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley on TV, American Graffiti and Grease in…

JoAnna Haugen is a writer, speaker, solutions advocate, and founder of Rooted.

1) On the joys of traveling in the United States To really see America, you need to drive it mile by mile, because you not only begin to grasp the immensity of this beautiful country, you see the climate and geography change with every state line.

Pascal once wrote that all mankind’s misfortunes spring from just one cause: ‘he does not know how to sit still in a room.’

Carey Baraka is a writer from Kisumu, Kenya.

Blaise Pascal, the 17th century French genius who blessed the world by inventing the hypodermic syringe and the calculating machine (if such things can be counted blessings) took a singular view of man’s liking for travel.

The “deviate” aspect of my Deviate podcast gives me the pretext to veer away from travel themes and explore most any topic that interests me — and often I end up exploring affecting and meaningful episodes from my own life.

Andrea Sachs majored in art history at Tufts University, where she wrote about arts and culture for the school paper — mainly to get free food and drinks.

What it must be like to be an angel or a squirrel, we can imagine sooner.

1) Vacations as we know them began in the mid-twentieth century Long enjoyed by the leisure class, vacationing was an unknown practice to most Americans at the turn of the twentieth century.

Jan Morris was one of the most celebrated travel writers of the twentieth century.

(Originally published in Holiday Magazine, November 1967) One warm summer day I was standing on a beach near Tom Never’s Head on Nantucket.

1) To convey a dynamic nonfiction narrative, one must build oneself into a character on the page The problem with I is not that it is in bad taste but that fledgling personal essayist and memoirists may think they have conveyed more than they actually have

Graduating from Sacred Heart University with a bachelor’s in Marketing and Global Studies, Dana Givens has always had an interest in exploring different cultures and countries.

My travel mindset has been undergoing a walking-oriented transformation ever since I met my wife Kiki — though my yen for traveling on foot goes back to my 2002 trek across Andorra and 2000 walk across Israel, and even the summer-camp backpacking excursio…

Craig Mod is a writer and photographer who has called Japan home for most of the last twenty years.

1) As a writer your only job is to make the reader turn the page As a writer you have only one job: to make the reader turn the page.

Twenty years ago, the skeleton of a wild pig gleamed among violets while the leaf rot around it grew hot with spring.

Lauren Keith is a freelance travel writer and guidebook author whose work has been published in Lonely Planet, Smithsonian Magazine, Al Jazeera, Atlas Obscura, AFAR, the Independent and elsewhere.

The World samples a half-century, peripatetically.