Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

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Unlike some of the cringey influencers that were to come, Rolf was humble and radiated world experience. When Eric Weiner took a deep dive into the worlds data on happiness, he discovered that there are many other countries doing a much better job of keeping their population happy and content in their day to day lives.

He recommends against doing all of your travel planning online, a recommendation which I heartily disagree with. After almost 2 years at sea, and only 1 day away from reaching their destination, the ship was crushed by a large pack of floating ice in the Weddell Sea, leaving the men stranded on the pack ice. Throughout the year, Rolf Potts embraces the ragged-edged, harder-to-quantify aspects of travel that inevitably change travelers’ lives for the better, in unexpected ways. Rolf explores the questions of how to liberate yourself to live the life you want, how to appreciate where you are when you're there, how to deal with loneliness, how to make friends in strange places, the virtues and limits of companionship and the broken paradigm of "travel" as escape.I challenge you to find someone who has experienced genuine and extreme success and fulfillment by always listening to others. Quite often one or two-week long travelers, especially the wealthy, travel far and wide to experience the same nice comforts and amenities and even people as at home.

The book is filled with links to lots of online resources that are probably out-of-date at this point, so it might not be a great idea to consider this book the Holy Grail of long term travel. The list of resources for travelling with children is, as far as I checked, the most slapdash of them all, with a couple of Internet boards and a book or two about rich people who went on a pre-booked world tour orchestrated from a fancy pad in an affluent neighbourhood. Con cada viaje hemos aprendido que lo hermoso de "mochilear" no es en sí el destino, sino todos los detalles que rodean al propio viaje y que la belleza está en lo imprevisto, en los autobuses averiados en la mitad de la noche de una carretera desconocida, en la hospitalidad de las personas más inesperadas, en la gente que conoces en el camino, en los cambios de planes e itinerarios, en los templos y senderos que no aparecen en las guías de viajes, en el uso de la creatividad más enrevesada para extender el presupuesto y en el simple hecho de sentirse dueño absoluto del propio tiempo y la libertad. The whole pamphlet is like one of those corny leadership posters with a photo of a guy climbing a mountain, or a kitten hanging from a tree branch and a slogan about how shitty Mondays are.

Having had a really short vagabonding stint in Vietnam I could highly relate to most of the points raised in the book!

Long-term travel isn’t an act of rebellion against society; it’s an act of common sense within society. Veteran shoestring traveler Rolf Potts shows how anyone with an independent spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel. These stories don't presume to tell us where to go or what to do, but they do show how journeys can enlarge one's way of being in the world. We’ve scoured the Internet for the very best videos on Vagabonding, from high-quality videos summaries to interviews or commentary by Rolf Potts. More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon.Travel is about unpredictability, getting lost, getting detoured, getting ambushed, getting robbed, getting swindled, and having your plans disrupted.