“Nobody sits us down and tells us to collect objects when we’re young,” Rolf Potts writes, “it’s just something we do, as a way of familiarizing ourselves with the world, its possibilities, and our ...

Unlike when I first backpacked across Asia for two years on a shoestring budget a quarter of a century ago, 2022 sees a historically unprecedented wealth of useful travel information online (hey, like ...

Throughout the year, Rolf Potts embraces the ragged-edged, harder-to-quantify aspects of travel that inevitably change travelers' lives for the better, in unexpected ways. The Vagabond's Way ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Rolf Potts has been called the "Jack Kerouac for the Internet age" by USA Today. The 38-year-old Wichita, Kan., native has posted ...

Travel writer, essayist, podcaster and author of “Vagabonding,” “Marco Polo Didn't Go There,” and The Vagabond’s Way: 366 Meditations on Wanderlust, Discovery, and the Art of Travel ...