Comments on: 5 Travel Lessons You Can Use at Home http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2010/02/25/rolf-potts-vagabonding-travel/ Tim Ferriss's 4-Hour Workweek and Lifestyle Design Blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:39:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brian McKenzie http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2010/02/25/rolf-potts-vagabonding-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-109696 Brian McKenzie Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:10:29 +0000 http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/?p=2647#comment-109696 I liked the video and you also provided some great tips. I travel pretty frequently and I'm thinking about vacationing somewhere in either Central or South America this year, perhaps Costa Rica. I liked the video and you also provided some great tips. I travel pretty frequently and I’m thinking about vacationing somewhere in either Central or South America this year, perhaps Costa Rica.

]]> By: Norman http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2010/02/25/rolf-potts-vagabonding-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-92457 Norman Sat, 05 Mar 2011 18:03:25 +0000 http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/?p=2647#comment-92457 I just read Vagabonding and I have to comment here about it because you introduced me to him: He's a phenomenal writer. I don't mean pretty good or okay or adequate or that the subject is amazing so it carries his writing... I mean his voice, vocab, meter, metaphor; the whole package, as good as anything I've read. I'm a minor classics geek (mostly American, though I'm reading Ulysses with Strauss right now) so when I hear a voice like Potts I get excited. So if you avoid the "how to", dry, amateur voice that most travel writer are limited to, read Rolf Potts for a very well spoken change of pace. Then pack a very light bag and get the hell out of town. I just read Vagabonding and I have to comment here about it because you introduced me to him: He’s a phenomenal writer. I don’t mean pretty good or okay or adequate or that the subject is amazing so it carries his writing… I mean his voice, vocab, meter, metaphor; the whole package, as good as anything I’ve read.

I’m a minor classics geek (mostly American, though I’m reading Ulysses with Strauss right now) so when I hear a voice like Potts I get excited.

So if you avoid the “how to”, dry, amateur voice that most travel writer are limited to, read Rolf Potts for a very well spoken change of pace. Then pack a very light bag and get the hell out of town.

]]> By: Pavel http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2010/02/25/rolf-potts-vagabonding-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-91644 Pavel Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:30:49 +0000 http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/?p=2647#comment-91644 Thailand people are not such an unhappy people. Sure they live much simple life and get a little money for their labor. But I think they happy with what they have. And it's not exactly correct to judge about that from the distance. You have to come and look for yourself. And please do! Thailand is a wonderful country :) Thailand people are not such an unhappy people. Sure they live much simple life and get a little money for their labor. But I think they happy with what they have. And it’s not exactly correct to judge about that from the distance. You have to come and look for yourself. And please do! Thailand is a wonderful country :)

]]> By: Thaddeus http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2010/02/25/rolf-potts-vagabonding-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-90811 Thaddeus Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:13:48 +0000 http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/?p=2647#comment-90811 Awesome video - Gives me something to think about as I'm about to start a year of straight traveling myself. Awesome video – Gives me something to think about as I’m about to start a year of straight traveling myself.

]]> By: Anon http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2010/02/25/rolf-potts-vagabonding-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-87987 Anon Sun, 23 Jan 2011 13:33:03 +0000 http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/?p=2647#comment-87987 Your ideas about travel and lifestyle are highly rewarding, have you thought about writing a book or could you recommend any? Sometimes I need a little help from someone to actually show me what I enjoy in life, yet when I read something like the article above I just sought of go "Oh yes" and it's all so clear to me. Sometimes I feel like there's to much going on in my life (and head) for me to easily pick out the things that bring me happiness. Glen Your ideas about travel and lifestyle are highly rewarding, have you thought about writing a book or could you recommend any? Sometimes I need a little help from someone to actually show me what I enjoy in life, yet when I read something like the article above I just sought of go “Oh yes” and it’s all so clear to me. Sometimes I feel like there’s to much going on in my life (and head) for me to easily pick out the things that bring me happiness.

Glen

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