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A mixtape (of sorts) about mixtapes: Music as intimate communication
“Mixtapes were more than a way to share music in the 1980s and 1990s: They were, in fact, a type of extraverbal language —...
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Holiday Special: Celebrating the Sears Christmas Wish Book [encore]
“The Sears Christmas Wish Book was, for me, a kind of foundational text — a secular counterpoint to the Bible stories I learned around...
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Digital nomadism [bonus]: How technology has changed the way we travel
“When you smell a place, that’s when your experience of it starts.” – Rolf Potts Wade Shepard (@vagabondjourney) is an itinerant writer and filmmaker...
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Van Life before #VanLife (encore): Revisiting a classic USA road trip
“I will never have another vagabonding journey that compares to that first one — even though I have since traveled to far more exotic...
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Tales from the vagabonding trail: Discussing “Marco Polo Didn’t Go There”
“Life’s journey is as rewarding as my travel journeys. It’s been fun to travel the world as a slightly older person.” – Rolf Potts...
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Vagabonding audio companion: Travel brainstorming, with Ari Shaffir
“You open up a map, and it’s like, ‘I could go anywhere here.’ It’s just a world of possibility.” – Ari Shaffir Ari Shaffir...