Nomadic Matt: O.K., first question: How do you feel that your baby is ten years old? What kind of emotions does that make you feel? Rolf is re-releasing the book in an audio format (it’s also the first book in the Tim Ferriss Book Club) and, to celebrate the book turning ten, I wanted to bring Rolf back on the site to talk about the fine art of vagabonding ( I first interviewed him in 2009).
Since starting this website, Rolf and I have become friends (it’s cool being friends with someone whose words changed your life) and this month marks the tenth anniversary of his book. I still have my original copy and occasionally thumb through chapters. No book has ever come as close to expressing the philosophy of long-term travel as this one. In my view, if long-term travel and backpacking had a bible, this would be it. That book put into words all the thoughts and feelings I had about travel at the time and helped ease a lot of the fears I had about my decision to quit my job and travel the world. It was a treatise on the personal and world benefits of travel, especially long-term travel. When I first started thinking about traveling the world, I bought a book most of you have probably heard of: Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts.
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