Latest Episodes
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Travel memoir lab: Truth, luck, & multi-genre storytelling (with Tom Bissell)
“Not everyone who’s lucky is talented and not everyone who’s talented is lucky.” –Tom Bissell In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Tom talk...
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Seek places where your very presence makes you interesting (book club remix)
“One way of making famous landmarks more comprehensible is to look for surprises, good and bad, that go beyond what you are expected to...
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Vagabonding audio companion: A life in (and philosophy of) long-term travel
“One ironic anxiety of travel is that suddenly you’re living in ‘organic time’ and you’re not used to it.” –Rolf Potts In this “vagabonding...
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A train isn’t just a vehicle; it’s a place (a remix encore, with Monisha Rajesh)
“A wonderful aspect of traveling by train is the transactional relationship between passengers who feed off one another, picking up tips, offering advice, guarding...
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Travelers experience more when they slow down and ask lots of questions
“We live in an age where you can take a series short flights inside a country to speed things up. You end up going...
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“Dare to do Dirt”: Seeking rural places (and how to best experience them)
“Domestic travel to rural places can be as important as international travel that is more obviously cross-cultural.” –Rolf Potts In this episode of Deviate,...