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Rolf Potts

  • Travel Writer, Essayist and Author, Deviate
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New book "THE VAGABOND'S WAY: 366 Meditations on Wanderlust, Discovery and the Art of Travel" available now.
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Almanacco del vagabonding

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By Rolf Potts
| illibraio.it
«Ogni giorno è un viaggio, e il viaggio è casa». Rolf Potts, autore di un classico della letteratura di viaggio come Vagabonding, ha scelto questo pensiero apparentemente paradossale di Matsuo Bashō per darci il benvenuto e invitarci a scoprire, giorno dopo giorno, il bello del viaggiare.
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Laura Kiniry - Rolf Potts

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By Rolf Potts
| rolfpotts.com
Laura Kiniry is a freelance journalist specializing in travel, food, and culture. Born on the East Coast, she still considers herself a Jersey Girl (South Jersey, near Philadelphia), despite making her home in San Francisco for the last three decades. She writes regularly for such publications Smithsonian, Atlas Obscura, Conde Nast Traveler, and VIA, and is the current managing editor for the Visit Oakland 2025 guide.
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What's the Best Way to Explore Kenya? Join a Local Hiking Club. Original

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By Rolf Potts
| The New York Times Verified
By the time we reached the third waterfall on the Kahunira trail, my wife, Kiki, and I had been walking through the forested backcountry of Kiambu County, Kenya, for nearly three hours. Along the way, we had tasted sweet lady finger bananas in the market town of Githunguri, sipped a sour Kikuyu home brew called muratina proffered by laborers at a rural gravel quarry and made a heart-pounding shortcut across rust-flecked irrigation pipes that traversed a steep gorge fringed with tea plantations.
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