April 29, 2004
On the road. Again!
Well, after driving a 2003 Land Rover Discovery II across the Americas and a 2004 Lexus IS300 down the Mississippi...Read this article
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April 27, 2004
Adventure is equal parts external and internal
"You can't see the teeth on a buzz-saw. ...Too much diversion can keep us from knowing how miserable or how...Read this article
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April 26, 2004
Young Pioneers: A Journal of Independent Travel Culture
I've been curious about the independent travel 'zine Young Pioneers ever since the editor, Dan Eldridge, intereviewed me over a...Read this article
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April 22, 2004
Local culture serves as more than just color for tourists
"When you strip people's homes of their distinctiveness -- either by homogenizing them or by destroying them environmentally -- you...Read this article
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April 21, 2004
Ideas for hiking and trekking worldwide
Over at the Vagabonding.net Q&A, a reader asks me about the worldwide trekking scene. "Having hiked the Appalachian and Pacific...Read this article
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April 20, 2004
Life is an active pursuit
"There are some things in life, and they may be the most important things, that we cannot know by research...Read this article
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April 19, 2004
Theroux: "I wouldn't give money to an NGO...I would give it person to person"
Last week, while he was in San Francisco promoting his book Dark Star Safari, Paul Theroux was asked by fellow...Read this article
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April 16, 2004
Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil in Rosedale, Mississippi
Last month, while I was driving down the Mississippi River on a magazine assignment, I had a curious experience...Read this article
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April 14, 2004
New news from Drive Around the World
Though my stint with Land Rover's Drive Around the World expedition has finished, the rest of the team is set...Read this article
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April 13, 2004
Stephanie Elizondo Griest, yak penis soup, and other Rp.com news
This month on the RolfPotts.com Writers page I interview Stephanie Elizondo Griest, whose first book, Around the Bloc, was published...Read this article
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April 12, 2004
An interactive poem about mummies
[Above: Cedar's drawing of a mummy.] My nephew Cedar, who is four years old, was over for Easter this...Read this article
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April 09, 2004
Travel teaches you the limits of home
"Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had...Read this article
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April 08, 2004
Deconstructing my Amazon listing
A couple months back I read a New York Times story (posted below) that reported on a “glitch” in the...Read this article
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Amazon Glitch Unmasks War of Reviewers
In reference to the post above, here is the text of the Amazon.com article from the New York Times: Amazon...Read this article
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April 07, 2004
Can the digital economy help poor and isolated communities?
"The question being asked is...whether the digital economy can be a catalyst to bring the poor in from the economic...Read this article
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April 06, 2004
The cleverest New Yorker cartoon I've seen this year
The juxtaposition here cracked me up, especially after having just traveled in Latin America. This image of Che Guevara...Read this article
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April 05, 2004
New poetry: Pursue, by Nhan Trinh
Nhan Trinh, an old friend of mine from our days back at Wichita North high school (he later went on...Read this article
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April 02, 2004
The Savvy Traveler takes a curtain call
I learned from Jen Leo's blog this week that public radio's Savvy Traveler program has gone off the air. This...Read this article
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April 01, 2004
The "Brief Safe"
[Above: Behold the "Brief Safe".] I have seen many traveler money belts and safety devices in my day, but...Read this article
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