This one was special. Thank you to legendary travel writer, essayist, lecturer, and awesome human Rolf Potts for sitting down and having this vulnerable and incredibly insightful conversation with me. 

To keep the show notes short and sweet, here are some of the main topics discussed in the episode:

• The idea of time wealth (achievement culture in the US)
• Find ways to WASTE your 20s!
• Failing to write a travel book at 25 and the critical lessons learned in that experience
• Learning how to lean into the uncertainty of travel and of life
• The importance of taking a travel gap year (undergraduate students listen up!!!)
• Some travel tips!
• Being vulnerable with your friends at home and the strangers you meet on the road
• What Rolf would say to his 20 year-old self now

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Rolf Potts books I love!

• Vagabonding (2002)
• The Vagabond's Way (2022)

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