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What it's like to spend a full year traveling within a day's radius of your home
“Unless we explore our neighborhood, we can’t imagine what might be right under our noses, nor be able to celebrate it, mourn its demise,...
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Sports, superstitions, and sacraments: A Deviate Super Bowl Special (2024 remix)
“I hate the Kansas City Chiefs with a passion reserved only for things that I love.” —Tod Goldberg In this episode of Deviate, Rolf...
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Tim Ferriss and Rolf discuss travel, time wealth, and “success management”
“Billionaires can’t take a week off? What’s the point of having a billion dollars if they have fewer options than I do?” –Tim Ferriss...
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The best journeys explore mindscapes as well as landscapes (book club remix)
“Sometimes it’s good to sit still and let a place move through you instead of you moving through a place.” –Rolf Potts In this...
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Going abroad for love, and travel writing that says something new about a place
“When asked to give advice to young people looking to become travel writers, I invariably tell them to go – alone – and live...
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Seek places where your very presence makes you interesting (book club redo)
“One way of making famous landmarks more comprehensible is to look for surprises, good and bad, that go beyond what you are expected to...