There are places, though, where the endnotes are actual instruction about telling a story, about setting the hook and about how sometimes you have to leave out certain details in order to make a point. Functionally, I suppose, it is sort of like a text book for travel writing. How did you work around this to write your endnotes? Sure, I have specific memories of these stories that are tied to how I wrote them.
Having a presentable, complete written version of a story does end up influencing your memory of an experience. But I went into storage and I pulled out all this information. You read it and it seems like this obsessive adventure because that was how I wrote it. But when I went back to my notes, I realized that I had spent an entire day just hanging out and reading a book that had nothing to do with the obsessive storyline.
And the funny thing is … there are even more stories that I remember that I never took notes on or have ever even written about. That was taken in Myanmar on assignment for Conde Nast Traveler in I was just sitting at a tea shop and she took the photo. This will be the last book where it serves as my author shot. I have offers and opportunities, I just need to sit down and sort them through. Travel is my bread and butter, but there are other things I enjoy.
My subject matter is already diversifying. About a quarter of what I do has little or nothing to do with travel. The thing about travel is that the more places you go, the more places you want to go.
So after all these years of far-flung, adventurous travel, do you still consider yourself a backpacker? Potts encourages us to think about travel in a way that has been almost lost. He wants us to wander, to explore, to embrace the unknown and, finally, to take our own damn time about it.
Author, journalist, and inveterate traveler, Rolf Potts has made a name for himself as a champion of vagabonding — spending extended time on the road, often without a hard-and-fast itinerary. Some folks go on adventures, but other people live adventures. Such is the case with writer Rolf Potts, who has spent the better part of his adult years writing dispatches from far-flung locales.
Rolf Potts is at the forefront of a new generation of literary travel writers that came of age with the Internet. No American travel writer has written as much — and as cleverly — about [the] gap between expectations and reality as Rolf Potts.
Potts shows travelers and would-be travelers the joy of immersing oneself in a foreign culture. Louis Post-Dispatch. We wanted to know if it is still possible to have great, life changing adventures on a shoestring. Few are better equipped to answer this question than Rolf Potts. After graduation Potts worked as a landscaper in Seattle for a year before embarking on an 8-month Volkswagen Vanagon journey around North America.
Potts later moved to Busan, South Korea, where he taught English at technical college for two years. He started writing travel stories for Salon. He began college at Friends University, spending his summers working for an Outward Bound-style wilderness camp in Colorado and hopping freight trains across the Pacific Northwest.
He later transferred to George Fox University, where he graduated with a degree in writing and literature in Rolf Potts born October 13, is an American travel writer, essayist, podcaster, and author. The lifestyle philosophies he outlined in Vagabonding are considered to have been a key influence on the digital nomad movement. Rolf Potts. Rolf Potts fans also viewed:. Ziri Rideaux. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh. Craig Tornberg. Mizinga Melu. Sean Nienow. Michael William Brescia.
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