The current edition of World Hum features an interview with me about my new book . World Hum takes travel seriously, so I was pleased to be able to tackle the kind of questions I don't usually get. Among other things, I was able to share how long-term travel has affected my attitude towards America:...

This month at RolfPotts.com, I feature an interview with indie-travel guru Bill Dalton , who founded Moon Handbooks back in 1973. In addition to talking about this pioneering days in travel publishing, Dalton reveals how his early affinity for travel was an offshoot of his father's drinking habit: "Travel got into my blood very early....

An article about Vagabonding appeared today in the North Bay Bohemian , an alternative paper that serves Marin, Sonoma and Napa counties north of San Francisco. This piece is the result of a phone interview I had with reporter Gretchen Giles when I was in Los Angeles last week -- and it was interesting to...

This blog has received some more appreciated attention in recent days. World Hum calls Vagablogging "chock full of thoughtful travel quotations and, when the spirit moves him, [Rolf's] take on travel and writing." Travelers Tales , my favorite indie book publishers, have also weighed in with an endorsement, naming Vagablogging their January 2003 " Web...

Five people have won copies of Vagabonding through a contest I've been running at Vagabonding.net . The winners are: Jessica Pancoast (New Orleans, LA); Monique Landry (Haverhill, MA); Harold Tuten (Madison, WI); Jennifer Jennings (Geneva, Switzerland); and Jennifer Anderson (Hoboken, NJ). Each will receive a copy of Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of...

Jayne Clark from USA Today spoke to me about Vagabonding during a wee-hours phone call to Bangkok earlier this week. The result is this Q&A in the USA Today weekend travel section. "The book is a meditation on the joys of hitting the road for months or years at a time," reads Clark's intro. "It's...

Vagablogging got a nice mention this week in Jen Leo's travel writer's resource, Written Road . "I'm happy to say that Rolf Potts' new Vagablogging.net is my new favorite travel blog," Jen reports. "While other travel blogs report on where they've been and where they're going next, or what's going on in the travel literature...

Writing a book has many joys to go with the challenges, and one of the joys in writing Vagabonding was that it gave me the opportunity to meet Pico Iyer, whose writing I have long admired. Pico was kind of enough to agree to an interview, and I'm featuring him in the January 2003 edition...

Outpost magazine is using an excerpt from Vagabonding as the lead story in their annual Global Travel Guide issue, which is on newsstands now. The excerpt, entitled "A Vagabonding Manifesto", comes from Chapter 2 ("Earn Your Freedom"). A Chapter 1 excerpt, " Declare Your Independence ", is available online at Vagabonding.net.

I haven't seen it yet (and thus I don't even know the official title of the article), but my story on adventure travel in Laos is featured in the January 2003 edition of Conde Nast Traveler . The story documents a late 2000 expedition that journeyed into the Khammouan Biodiversity Conservation Area in the mountains...

My personal website got a nice mention this weekend in a Best of the Web type roundup from the San Jose Mercury News. "Here is Potts himself, in post-Salon mode," the article reads, "with a Web site that goes beyond plugging his next book..." Trip Lit gave me a similar endorsement earlier this year, and...

I have a couple of items on World Hum's annual "Gifts for the World Traveler" satire this week. One is: INTERNATIONAL "TRAVELER (NOT TOURIST)" T-SHIRTS You've tried everything to set yourself apart from "tourists": You wear local fashions when visiting the market; you use Lonely Planet cultural tips when sightseeing; you even say "thank you"...