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The joys and idiosyncrasies of global train travel (with Monisha Rajesh)
“Riding trains offered a great chance to chat with people we’d never cross paths with in our lives normally.” –Monisha Rajesh In this episode...
151
Five Travel Lessons You Can Use at Home (a road-trip intro to Deviate Season 4)
“The best experiences in life can be had for the price of showing up.” –Rolf Potts In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Kiki...
150
Life changing travel experiences (with Ari Shaffir): Walking across Israel
“A lot of people seek out spiritual travel-sites without any ties to a specific religion: When they’re in Israel and they’ll go to the...
149
How to write a travel memoir (and how failure is the best teacher)
“Earnest, hard-won failure can teach you as much as anything.” – Rolf Potts Note: For information on the Paris-based Travel Memoir classes Rolf is...
148
Strategies and arguments for the simple life (from an off-grid perspective)
This episode of Deviate explores the benefits of minimalism (3:00); changing ones life philosophy and getting rid of bad habits (11:00); pragmatic approaches to...
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American Pilgrim: Revisiting Rolf’s lost Travel Channel Thanksgiving special
“The perception that most Americans have about the original Thanksgiving is very much a Hallmark-card stereotype, where the native people and the colonists came...