Rolf Potts is a celebrated author and vagabond travel writer. Besides writing articles, essays, best-selling books, teaching a writing workshop in Paris American Academy each summer, occasionally hosting a television travel show, and inspiring the polymath phenom Tim Ferriss to embrace the Vagabonding philosophy and give Potts' book of that same name the coveted spot of "first book in the Tim Ferriss book club", Rolf Potts lives in rural Kansas and saves up for extended world travel adventures that he usually takes alone and with little baggage or limited technological encumbrances.

This is a fascinating discussion that will help us realize that travel is not a luxury for the privileged and living well starts by not being a tourist of our own lives, no matter the environment.

A LIVE discussion with Rolf will take place on OCTOBER 20, 2015 at 8pm EST / GMT -4
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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:
• How Rolf started traveling and the change that has brought along the way
• What are the biggest changes in 20 year of traveling the world
• What he recommends for doing it well and having the best experiences.
• The real wealth of our lives is how we spend our time.
• His thoughts for traveling and experiencing the world instead of being a tourist of your life.
• On counting Selfie Sticks in Paris.
• On the gift of traveling and exploring alone.
• His recent trip to the French countryside.
• A best places to travel that people don't consider visiting.
• His comic book he wrote that depicts a long-forgotten travel story from ancient Egypt. (His young nephew illustrated it and profits go to a children's refugee fund)
• His foray into writing about the gangsta rap of the Geto Boys and the 5th Ward of Houston (psycho-graphical writing.)

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