Back in September I traveled to rural Wales for the excellent DO Lectures series, which features talks and presentations by cutting-edge experts from a wide variety of disciplines -- from mountaineers to sustainable architects to graphic designers. I spoke on vagabonding and the ethic of long-term travel, and video from that lecture is now available...

Rolf in Jeju, Korea, 1997. 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...