Category: Amazing Vagabonds
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Troia: Bonnie Bremser’s Brutal Beat Mexican Memoirs
Bonnie Bremser’s Troia: Mexican Memoirs records prostitution, flight and motherhood in prose that her own husband edited and titled without her oversight.
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The First Third: Neal Cassady’s Unfinished Autobiography
Neal Cassady’s The First Third is the Beat era’s most famous muse attempting authorship, a fragmentary memoir revealing as much by failing as succeeding.
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Minor Characters: Joyce Johnson Rewrites the Beat Story
Joyce Johnson’s Minor Characters (1983) tells the Beat story from the women’s side of the room, and is the best-written book the movement produced about itself.
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An Extraordinary Vagabond: Morris Wayne Walker (1945-2022)
Morris the Earth Walker Walk softly in the forest of life, ride on the wings of my love. Float peacefully on the waters of time… – Morris & Lynn Walker…
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Vagabond Teacher – Melissa Ruttanai
Melissa’s great adventures and fun writing are not strangers to Vagobond readers, but we thought it might be fun for you to get to know her a little bit better.
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Vagabond in a Donut – Barbara Weibel
Barbara Weibel is one of my favorite travel bloggers. Barbara puts the focus on writing incredible posts with sometimes startling insights into the world of travel and culture.
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Tim Ferriss: Amazing Vagabond
In 2007 while hiking in Hawaii, my friend Leo was asking me questions about my book Rough Living: Tips and Tales of a Vagabond. When I told him it was…
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Amazing Vagabond – Tony Wheeler, founder of Lonely Planet
If you haven’t heard of Lonely Planet, you’ve never taken a trip. Tony and Maureen Wheeler were the founders of this global travel empire which is now owned by the…
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Guide Book Vagabond – Tom Brosnahan
Tom is an old school travel writer, guide book author – the kind that went to the destination, walked all the streets, drew the map if there wasn’t one, learned…
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Interview with Techno-Vagabond Anil Polat aka Fox Nomad
Interview with techno-vagbond Anil Polat – Fox Nomad
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Vagabonding Vagabond Blogger – Our Interview with Rolf Potts
I caught up with the vagabonding vagabond blogger, Rolf Potts, via email and he kindly agreed to answer a few of my questions for Vagobond readers about life, travel, authenticity…
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Vagabond Hiker Scholar – Francis Tapon
If there is a modern day heir to the great traveler/scholar Ibn Batutta – I would say that Francis Tapon is the guy.
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Extraordinary Vagobond – Tarzan of Manisa
I never expected to find out that Tarzan came from Turkey!
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William S. Burroughs – Junkie Vagabond
William S. Burroughs – no other name rings so loudly in the annals of extraordinary literary vagabonds of the 20th century.
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Vagabond Frontier Writer – Louis L’amour.
Louis L’amour was more than just a prolific writer of Western novels. He was a boxer, a hobo, a round the world traveler, a merchant seaman, a soldier and a…
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Vagabond Explorer – Sir Richard Francis Burton
Explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton was quite possibly the greatest vagabond in history. In his lifetime he lived diverse cultures, broke boundaries, and did most of it without much in…
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Extraordinary Vagabond Stock Broker – Steve Jermanok
My interview with Steve Jermanok made me feel both humbled and refueled with a lust for new adventures. I hope you enjoy it too.
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Ponce de Leon – Deadly Damn Vagabond
It might be pushing it to call Ponce de Leon a vagabond since he was a career soldier, but in terms of dreams and adventure, certainly he fits the bill…
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Arthur Rimbaud: The Teenage Vagabond Who Changed All of Poetry
Arthur Rimbaud quit writing poetry at 19 and spent the rest of his life as a wandering trader in Africa. Before he stopped, he wrote some of the most influential…
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Vagabond Granny – Grandma Gatewood
Every once in a while you come across someone that inspires the hell out of you. Emma “Grandma” Gatewood is one of those people.
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Vagabond Folk Singer – Woodie Guthrie
While perhaps not a world traveler, Woodie Guthrie’s songs and music have been the soundtrack to more than a few vagabond adventures. Because of that, he is truly extraordinary.
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Ibn Battuta – Moroccan Vagabond
The greatest adventurer of all time for me is the Moroccan vagabond, Ibn Battuta. He not only traveled everywhere in his known world, but he wrote about it in ways…
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Greedy Vagabond – Conquistador Hernando Cortez
He conquered an entire empire. Sure, it was shitty for Montezuma, but for Cortez? It must have been cool.
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Extraordinary Vagobond Interview with the Planet Earth – Happy Earth Day
My interview with our planet
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Cross Dressing Vagabond – Isabelle Eberhardt
Traveling the world used to be a game that only the men played, but as in all fields, brave pioneers broke out of the Victorian conception of women as meek…
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