Blog - Rolf Potts

Explore Europe on Foot: The hows and whys of trek-travel on the continent 17.09.2019 ↓

Tips and routes for traveling the continent on foot

The case for why trekking on foot is the best way to embrace slow travel 10.09.2019 ↓

The joys of trekking overseas

Pico Iyer on travel, impermanence, and what Japan can teach us about life 03.09.2019 ↓

Understanding Japan, aging, and impermanence

A first- (or second-) timer’s guide to experiencing Paris at a slow pace 29.08.2019 ↓

Slow-travel strategies in the City of Light.

How keeping a travel journal can transform your experience of the journey 20.08.2019 ↓

How (and why) to keep a travel journal on the road

The Shawshank Redemption’s brilliant reworking of Stephen King, 25 years on 13.08.2019 ↓

Celebrating the classic prison drama, and why it's so affecting

Celebrating the subtle (and not-so-subtle) genius of Pulp Fiction, 25 years on 06.08.2019 ↓

Celebrating Tarantino's masterpiece, 25 years on

Bonus: Nomadic Matt’s top-19 lessons learned from a decade of travel 01.08.2019 ↓

Tips and insights from one decade of travel

Matt Kepnes on how to travel for years (instead of days or weeks) at a time 30.07.2019 ↓

How to travel the world for years at a time

Alastair Humphreys on making outdoor adventure a more active part of your life 23.07.2019 ↓

"Microadventures," and redefining adventure as you grow older

Will New Orleans still be there in 100 years? Examining the fate of a city. 17.07.2019 ↓

Will New Orleans still be there in 100 years?

Backpacker, Go Home: How Tourism Is Ruining Everything (or Not) 16.07.2019 ↓

Is tourism is ruining the destinations we love?

Seth Kugel on how to (truly) get off the beaten path as a global traveler 09.07.2019 ↓

How to (truly) get off the beaten path as a global traveler

Sports-movie screenwriter Bettina Gilois on the art of depicting true-life stories 03.07.2019 ↓

How to tell true-life stories

Why David Lynch’s The Straight Story is a travel classic (and how it got made) 02.07.2019 ↓

Remembering David Lynch's counterintuitive travel classic, 20 years on

Celebrating the best travel movies ever (and what, exactly, makes them good) 18.06.2019 ↓

What makes travel movies good

Storming (and making sense of) Leonardo DiCaprio’s The Beach, 20 years later 11.06.2019 ↓

Rolf recalls his attempt to invade the set of The Beach

Author Dave Cullen on what the media gets wrong after mass-shootings 04.06.2019 ↓

Author Dave Cullen on covering Columbine and Parkland

How to travel lighter, safer, and smarter (featuring Sarah von Bargen) 22.05.2019 ↓

Sarah von Bargen on how smarter travel creates better journeys

How to travel with no luggage at all (and what this teaches you) 21.05.2019 ↓

How no-bag travel can improve the journey

5 ways indie travel has changed (and stayed the same) since 1999 09.05.2019 ↓

Rolf reflects on how things have changed since his 1999 Asia journey

How philosophy can (truly) improve your life, featuring Monica McCarthy 08.05.2019 ↓

Embracing philosophy as a way to help life suck less

Ari Shaffir unpacks Rolf’s experience of doing psychedelics for the first time 07.05.2019 ↓

Ari helps Rolf make sense of his first magic mushroom experience

Deviate Season One finale with Ari Shaffir 13.11.2018 ↓

Deviate Season One finale

An outsider’s inside history of the Beat Generation, as told by Charles Plymell 06.11.2018 ↓

Stories about Kerouac, Cassady, Ginsberg, and more