Former English teacher wanders into literary stardom

He has contracted cholera in Laos, spied on Leonardo DiCaprio in Thailand, partied with the world’s wildest librarians in St. Petersburg, been drugged, robbed and beaten in Istanbul and run out of drinking water in the middle of the Sahara. And through it all, he has always managed to locate a PC room to post his story.

Meet Rolf Potts, the Jack Kerouac of the Internet age.

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