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 and himself.
Category: Around the World Travel
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.
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.
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 vagabond.
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.
Extraordinary Vagobond Interview with the Planet Earth – Happy Earth Day
My interview with our planet
Vagabond Anarchist – Emma Goldman
Her life was filled with constant movement from city to city and town to town.
Extraordinary Marseille Vagobond – Pytheas of the Midnight Sun – Namer of Britain
Pytheas was the first sailor to record a trip to Britain, where I am now. We could say that he ‘discovered’ Britain, though like saying Columbus discovered America
Graham Hughes – Every Country in the World with no Air Travel – Amazing Vagabond
Graham Hughes in an Amazing Vagabond. The British man is the first in the world to ever visit all 201 countries without using air transport.
Herodotus – The Father of History (and all Vagabonds)
Not only the father of history but of anthropology, and one can equally (but not so forcefully) argue he is the father of all travel writers and vagabonds.