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Vagabonding

An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

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Vagabonding

By: Rolf Potts
Narrated by: Rolf Potts
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About this listen

Vagabonding is about taking time off from your normal life - from six weeks to four months to two years - to discover and experience the world on your own terms. Veteran shoestring traveler Rolf Potts shows how anyone armed with an independent spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel. Potts gives the necessary information on:

  • Financing your travel time
  • Determining your destination
  • Adjusting to life on the road
  • Working and volunteering overseas
  • Handling travel adversity
  • Re-assimilating back into ordinary life

Not just a plan of action, vagabonding is an outlook on life that emphasizes creativity, discovery, and the growth of the spirit. Visit the vagabonding community's hub at www.vagabonding.net.

©2002 Rolf Potts (P)2013 Tim Ferriss Adventure Travel Travel Writing & Commentary Inspiring

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This book possibly just changed my life! For travelling abroad or traveling through life this book is a must read.

Life changing

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Was sort of expecting a travelogue interspersed with advice but it's basically just loads of advice.
Good advice mind for doing this sort of travelling.
It also makes you think about how you currently live and travel and shows you an alternative way of doing it.

Good tips

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Makes me want to go now! Useful tips for all travel. I will listen again.

Useful tips!

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Strongly reccomend to anyone looking for down to earth perspective on real long term travel.

Two years ago, at the start of my clueless stumble for travel advice, I listened to this while planning to travel, when I was feeling confused about what I needed or how I was really going to pull off such a long term trip. This helped to put into perspective that my travels begin now, not when I get on the plane. I listened for the second time while on my travels, on a long motorbike ride. It helped again to remind me why I was doing the stressful drive: to earn that time in the city when I arrived. I've listened a good few more times since then, for various different reasons and taken different things each time, even now after 2 years of being a seasoned traveller, it still gives me something new. I'm now planning to go away again, and find myself here, taking notes and reminding myself of advice I'd forgotten.

A go to you can pick up again and again

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If you've every thought about traveling or are young like me and want to explore the world before you commit to a full time job and possibly a family and home etc. Then you should give this book a read or listen. If it intrigues you then maybe you've found your next calling. like it says in the book, the world is like a book, you'll never really experience or know what it's about if you only live on the first page.

To Travel or Not to Travel

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