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Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

by Rolf Potts

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Synopses & Reviews

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Vagabonding is about taking time off from your normal life—from six weeks to four months to two years—to discover and experience the world on your own terms. Veteran shoestring traveler Rolf Potts shows how anyone armed with an independent spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel. Potts gives the necessary information on:

• financing your travel time

• determining your destination

• adjusting to life on the road

• working and volunteering overseas

• handling travel adversity

• re-assimilating back into ordinary life

Not just a plan of action, vagabonding is an outlook on life that emphasizes creativity, discovery, and the growth of the spirit. Visit the vagabonding community’s hub at www.vagabonding.net.

Review:

“Vagabonding brings to inspiring life both the hows and the whys of life on the road.”

Don George, global travel editor, Lonely Planet Publications

Review:

“Rolf Potts has produced an engaging book that does what few, if any, other travel guides do: make readers aware of how many possibilities vagabonding offers them to enhance their lives, and how accessible the experience of long-term travel really is.”

Jeffrey Tayler, author of Glory in the Camel’s Eye, Facing the Congo, and Siberian Dawn

Review:

“Digging into Rolf Potts, one encounters real issues about travel, issues that most other travel writers overlook, while still having a good time.”

Joe Cummings, author of Lonely Planet Thailand, Lonely Planet Bangkok,

Moon Handbooks: Mexico, and Moon Handbooks: Texas

Synopsis:

Veteran shoestring traveler Potts shows how anyone armed with an independent, curious spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel, once thought to be the sole province of students, counterculture dropouts, and the idle rich.

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megcampbell3, February 15, 2008 (view all comments by megcampbell3)
This slim volume on perpetual travel is equal parts practical advice and you've-only-one-life-to-live inspiration. Having already quit my job, sold my condo, and put everything else in to storage, I was already three or four chapters down the road with Potts before I'd ever heard of him or of "Vagabonding", but the true excitement and pure love that he conveys for a life of wanderlust is enough to give me all the extra confidence (a boost up and onto the horse) I needed; because indeed, I've done a great thing by pitching my whole daily routine with all its attachments in favor of the road for awhile. If well-placed in your days, this book may work the same magic on you.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780812992182
Subtitle:
An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
Author:
Potts, Rolf
Publisher:
Villard Books
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Reference - Guides (General)
Subject:
Travel
Subject:
Reference - Tips
Subject:
Sabbatical leave.
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Series Volume:
RN-0283
Publication Date:
December 2002
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
224
Dimensions:
8.06x5.22x.52 in. .38 lbs.

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