Solo travel: Celebrating the pleasures of (and strategies for) journeying alone

“Savoring is attending to the moment.” – Stephanie Rosenbloom

In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Stephanie discuss solitude versus loneliness (3:00); the joy of eating alone (14:00); the art of being a flaneur and savoring experiences (22:00); the joy of going to museums alone (32:00); the relationship between anticipation, experience, and retrospection (43:00); and exercising your travel muscles as part of everyday life (54:00).

Stephanie Rosenbloom (@stephronyt) is a travel writer for The New York Times, where she has been a reporter for more than a decade, and the author of the book, Alone Time: Four Seasons, Four Cities, and the Pleasures of Solitude. For more about Stephanie, check out http://www.stephanierosenbloom.com. 

Notable Links:

• Abraham Maslow (psychologist)
• AllTrails (website)
• Bella DePaulo (Professor of Psychology)
• Thích Nhất Hạnh (Vietnamese Buddhist monk)
• Savoring: A New Model of Positive Experience, by Fred Bryant (book)
• The Lonely Guy (Steve Martin movie)
• Charles Baudelaire (poet)
• Sandro Botticelli (painter)
• The Birth of Venus (painting by Botticelli)
• Elizabeth Dunn (psychologist)
• On Photography, by Susan Sontag (collection of essays)
• Marcel Duchamp (painter / sculptor)
• LiveTrekker (app)
• A Philosophy of Walking, by Fredric Gros (book)

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The Deviate theme music comes from the title track of Cedar Van Tassel’s 2017 album Lumber.

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