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

Description: Vagabonding by Rolf Potts, Timothy Ferriss A complete guide to the vagabond approach to travel espouses taking time off from ones normal routine - for weeks to years - to discover the wonders of the world for oneself. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "Vagabonding easily remains in my top-10 list of life-changing books. Why? Because one incredible trip, especially a long-term trip, can change your life forever. And Vagabonding teaches you how to travel (and think), not just for one trip, but for the rest of your life."-Tim Ferriss, from the forewordINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER . With a new foreword by Tim Ferriss . "Vagabonding easily remains in my top-10 list of life-changing books. Why? Because one incredible trip, especially a long-term trip, can change your life forever. And Vagabonding teaches you how to travel (and think), not just for one trip, but for the rest of your life."-Tim Ferriss, from the forewordTheres nothing like vagabonding- taking time off from your normal life-from six weeks to four months to two years-to discover and experience the world on your own terms. In this one-of-a-kind handbook, veteran travel writer Rolf Potts explains how anyone armed with an independent spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel. Now completely revised and updated, Vagabonding is an accessible and inspiring guide to. financing your travel time. determining your destination. adjusting to life on the road. working and volunteering overseas. handling travel adversity. re-assimilating back into ordinary lifeUpdated for our ever-changing world, Vagabonding is an indispensable guide for the modern traveler. Author Biography Rolf Potts is the author of Vagabonding and Marco Polo Didnt Go There. He has reported from more than sixty countries for the likes of National Geographic Traveler, The New Yorker, Slate, Outside, The New York Times Magazine, Believer, The Guardian, Sports Illustrated, National Public Radio, and the Travel Channel. Though he rarely stays in one place for more than a few weeks or months, Potts feels somewhat at home in Bangkok, Cairo, Pusan, New York, New Orleans, and North Central Kansas, where he keeps a small farmhouse on thirty acres near his family. Each July he can be found in France, where he is the summer writer-in-residence and program director at the Paris American Academy. Review "The book is a meditation on the joys of hitting the road. . . . Its also a primer for those with a case of pent-up wanderlust seeking to live the dream."—USA Today "I couldnt put this book down. Its a whole different ethic of travel. . . . [Rolf Pottss] practical advice might just convince you to enjoy that open-ended trip of a lifetime."—Rick Steves "Potts wants us to wander, to explore, to embrace the unknown, and, finally, to take our own damn time about it. I think this is the most sensible book of travel-related advice ever written."—Tim Cahill, founding editor of Outside"A crucial reference for any budget wanderer."—Time "Potts has synthesized more than six years worth of road experiences into an unusual travel guide thats much more than a how-to manual for open-ended journeys. With wit, insight and flair, he has created an inspiring philosophical handbook about living life as an adventure. . . . Vagabonding is an inspiring read for anyone who has ever contemplated taking an extended break."—The Globe and Mail"Vagabonding [is] chock-full of tips and first-person accounts about how to journey frugally and well."—National Geographic Traveler "Potts makes a valuable contribution to our thinking, not only about travel, but about life and work. And he leaves us with a prescription for making our lives more meaningful and more fun."—The Boston Globe "Vagabonding packs a serious philosophical punch and has a cult-like following among independent travelers. Im warning you, though: This book may well inspire you to quit your job, sell the house and leave on an extended adventure."—The Oregonian "Recommended reading."—The Washington Post "For those who just want to enjoy the journey, Rolf Potts Vagabonding combines practical tips for getting happily lost with a genuine love for life on the road."—Toronto Star"In Vagabonding, Potts lays out an easy-tofollow yet philosophically deep approach to achieving the travel dreams so many of us assume we have neither the time or money for."—Philadelphia Weekly "Vagabonding is one of the best books out there to think about travel in a whole new way. Rather than going to places for just a few days and cramming in seeing all the sights, it suggests that if we can we should spend weeks or months rather than days in a place. That way we can get to know the culture and people or even become part of it."—Business Insider Review Quote "A crucial reference for any budget wanderer." -- Time Excerpt from Book Chapter 1 From this hour I ordain myself loosd of limits and imaginary lines, Going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will divesting myself of the holds that would hold me. -Walt Whitman, "Song of the Open Road" Declare Your Independence Of all the outrageous throwaway lines one hears in movies, there is one that stands out for me. It doesnt come from a madcap comedy, an esoteric science-fiction flick, or a special-effects-laden action thriller. It comes from Oliver Stones Wall Street, when the Charlie Sheen character - a promising big shot in the stock market - is telling his girlfriend about his dreams. "I think if I can make a bundle of cash before Im thirty and get out of this racket," he says, "Ill be able to ride my motorcycle across China." When I first saw this scene on video a few years ago, I nearly fell out of my seat in astonishment. After all, Charlie Sheen or anyone else could work for eight months as a toilet cleaner and have enough money to ride a motorcycle across China. Even if they didnt yet have their own motorcycle, another couple months of scrubbing toilets would earn them enough to buy one when they got to China. The thing is, most Americans probably wouldnt find this movie scene odd. For some reason, we see long-term travel to faraway lands as a recurring dream or an exotic temptation, but not something that applies to the here and now. Insteadout of our insane duty to fear, fashion, and monthly payments on things we dont really need - we quarantine our travels to short, frenzied bursts. In this way, as we throw our wealth at an abstract notion called "lifestyle," travel becomes just another accessory -a smooth-edged, encapsulated experience that we purchase the same way we buy clothing and furniture. Not long ago, I read that nearly a quarter of a million short-term monastery- and convent-based vacations had been booked and sold by tour agents in the year 2000. Spiritual enclaves from Greece to Tibet were turning into hot tourist draws, and travel pundits attributed this "solace boom" to the fact that "busy overachievers are seeking a simpler life." What nobody bothered to point out, of course, is that purchasing a package vacation to find a simpler life is kind of like using a mirror to see what you look like when you arent looking into the mirror. All that is really sold is the romantic notion of a simpler life, and - just as no amount of turning your head or flicking your eyes will allow you to unselfconsciously see yourself in the looking glass - no combination of one-week or ten-day vacations will truly take you away from the life you lead at home. Ultimately, this shotgun wedding of time and money has a way of keeping us in a holding pattern. The more we associate experience with cash value, the more we think that money is what we need to live. And the more we associate money with life, the more we convince ourselves that were too poor to buy our freedom. With this kind of mind-set, its no wonder so many Americans think extended overseas travel is the exclusive realm of students, counterculture dropouts, and the idle rich. In reality, long-term travel has nothing to do with demographics - age, ideology, income - and everything to do with personal outlook. Long-term travel isnt about being a college student; its about being a student of daily life. Long-term travel isnt an act of rebellion against society; its an act of common sense within society. Long-term travel doesnt require a massive "bundle of cash"; it requires only that we walk through the world in a more deliberate way. This deliberate way of walking through the world has always been intrinsic to the time-honored, quietly available travel tradition known as "vagabonding." Vagabonding involves taking an extended time-out from your normal lifesix weeks, four months, two yearsto travel the world on your own terms. But beyond travel, vagabonding is an outlook on life. Vagabonding is about using the prosperity and possibility of the information age to increase your personal options instead of your personal possessions. Vagabonding is about looking for adventure in normal life, and normal life within adventure. Vagabonding is an attitudea friendly interest in people, places, and things that makes a person an explorer in the truest, most vivid sense of the word. Vagabonding is not a lifestyle, nor is it a trend. Its just an uncommon way of looking at life - a value adjustment from which action naturally follows. And, as much as anything, vagabonding is about time - our only real commodity - and how we choose to use it. Sierra Club founder John Muir (an ur-vagabonder if there ever was one) used to express amazement at the well-heeled travelers who would visit Yosemite only to rush away after a few hours of sightseeing. Muir called these folks the "time-poor" - people who were so obsessed with tending their material wealth and social standing that they couldnt spare the time to truly experience the splendor of Californias Sierra wilderness. One of Muirs Yosemite visitors in the summer of 1871 was Ralph Waldo Emerson, who gushed upon seeing the sequoias, "Its a wonder that we can see these trees and not wonder more." When Emerson scurried off a couple hours later, however, Muir speculated wryly about whether the famous transcendentalist had really seen the trees in the first place. Nearly a century later, naturalist Edwin Way Teale used Muirs example to lament the frenetic pace of modern society. "Freedom as John Muir knew it," he wrote in his 1956 book Autumn Across America , "with its wealth of time, its unregimented days, its latitude of choice . . . such freedom seems more rare, more difficult to attain, more remote with each new generation." But Teales lament for the deterioration of personal freedom was just as hollow a generalization in 1956 as it is now. As John Muir was well aware, vagabonding has never been regulated by the fickle public definition of lifestyle. Rather, it has always been a private choice within a society that is constantly urging us to do otherwise. This is a book about living that choice. Details ISBN0812992180 Author Timothy Ferriss Short Title VAGABONDING Language English ISBN-10 0812992180 ISBN-13 9780812992182 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 910 Year 2002 Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Pages 240 DOI 10.1604/9780812992182 UK Release Date 2002-12-24 AU Release Date 2002-12-24 NZ Release Date 2002-12-24 US Release Date 2002-12-24 Imprint Villard Translator Andreas Mayor Birth 1938 Affiliation Professor of Psychiatry, University of Geneva Position Professor of Psychiatry Qualifications PsyD Publisher Random House USA Inc Publication Date 2002-12-24 Subtitle An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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