Travel burnout is a real thing (and it’s OK to feel it sometimes), with Matt Kepnes

“The truth is that our travel anticipations, and our memories, have a way of holding only the most striking parts of an experience—the parts that don’t cause burnout.” —Matt Kepnes

In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Matt talk about travel journaling, and a journal Matt has designed for travelers (1:15); why travel burnout happens, and how Matt first experienced it on the road (4:30); why rest days are important to a journey, and why one shouldn’t over-plan one’s days on the road (10:00); how lingering in places allows you to develop a deeper relationship to those places, and how digital nomads can balance work and fun on the road (16:00); and how to create balance in your social-media habits as you travel (23:30).

Matt Kepnes (@nomadicmatt), commonly known as “Nomadic Matt,” is a travel blogger and the New York Times bestselling author of Travel the World on $50 a Day and Ten Years a Nomad.

Notable Links:

• The Vagabond’s Way, by Rolf Potts (book)
• Keeping a travel journal (Deviate episode)
• RememberYourTravels.com (travel journal)
• Experiencing Norway by hammock (dispatch)
• Paris Writing Workshops (Rolf’s class in France)
• Digital nomadism (location-independent lifestyle)

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

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