Vagabonding audio companion: Love, finding home, and telling TV travel stories

Episode 195 August 16, 2022 00:47:46
Vagabonding audio companion: Love, finding home, and telling TV travel stories
Deviate
Vagabonding audio companion: Love, finding home, and telling TV travel stories

Aug 16 2022 | 00:47:46

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Hosted By

Rolf Potts

Show Notes

“I think sometimes as travel writers our most important job is to be a listener — to listen to the stories that people are telling each other in a place.”  –Rolf Potts

In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Ernest talk about why home is such an important place in one’s life, even when one travels to more far-flung places (3:00); why the vagabonding ethos begins with the willingness to give oneself permission to travel in life, and how Rolf’s new book, The Vagabond’s Way, furthers the vagabonding ethos in a daily-reading format (15:00); the difficulty of figuring out which place in the world is your “favorite,” and how food becomes a part of one’s iconic travel memories (32:00); and why it helps to be confident and “ride tall in the saddle” if you sometimes feel out of place as a traveler (41:00).

Ernest White II (@ernestwhiteii) is a storyteller, explorer, producer, and host of the television travel series Fly Brother, now in its second season on PBS and Create TV. Check out his subscription-based membership community, Fly Brother & Friends, which promotes travel and personal transformation.

Ernest will moderate Rolf’s virtual launch event for The Vagabond’s Way at 5pm PT on October 4th, 2022.

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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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