Potts organizes his book in themes that vaguely follow the hero’s journey: the chance to travel, the decision to take off, the preparation to make one’s way into the world, the experiences of awe and obstacles on the road, overcoming those unexpected obstacles, returning home with a new and extended sense of self. … travel is as much a way of being as it is an act of movement. The book offers his philosophy on travel, his encouragement to engage the world beyond our own backyard, rather than escape to our fenced or gated communities. He had the pandemic-imposed two years to write this book, while landlocked in Kansas, his home.
Potts latest book, The Vagabond’s Way: 366 Meditations on Wanderlust, Discover, and the Art of Travel. I learned a lot from him as he shared his vagabonding days and how to find a good story and then how to craft it into a finely honed travel story. I studied travel writing with Rolf Potts through the Santa Fe Workshops in San Miguel de Allende in 2017. I don’t typically review books on my blog, but this is an exception.
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