With a new foreword by Tim Ferriss - There's nothing like vagabonding: 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. In this one-of-a-kind handbook, veteran travel writer Rolf Potts explains how anyone armed with an independent spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel. Now completely revised and updated, Vagabonding is an accessible and inspiring guide to
- financing your travel time
- determining your destination
- adjusting to life on the road
-...

"Marco Polo Didn t Go There" is a collection of rollicking travel tales from a young writer "USA Today" has called Jack Kerouac for the Internet Age. For the past ten years, Rolf Potts has taken his keen postmodern travel sensibility into the far fringes of five continents for such prestigious publications as "National Geographic Traveler, Salon.com, " and "The New York Times Magazine." This book documents his boldest, funniest, and most revealing journeysfrom getting stranded without water in the Libyan desert, to crashing the set of a Leonardo DiCaprio movie in Thailand, to learning the...