Rolf Potts is a travel writer whose work has appeared in National Geographic Traveler, the New York Times Magazine, Slate.com, Condé Nast Traveler

Condé Nast Traveler

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, Outside, The Believer, The Guardian

The Guardian

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, National Public Radio, the Travel Channel

Travel Channel

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, Salon.com

Salon.com

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 and World Hum

World Hum

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. His travel advice book Vagabonding, which has been translated into several foreign languages, is in its tenth printing. He won the Lowell Thomas Award in 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007. Potts is the summer writer-in-residence at the Paris American Academy.

On Rolf Potts' Vagabonding blog, archives of more than 100 interviews with travel writers provide insight to the motivations of globe-trotting authors. Among the writers Potts has interviewed are: Arthur Frommer

Arthur Frommer

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, Gayle Keck, Gary Lee

Gary Lee (journalist)

Gary Lee is an award-winning American journalist with a particular focus on travel writing. He wrote for the Washington Post as well as Time Magazine. He speaks five languages including Russian and he was the Washington Post's Moscow Bureau Chief. He won the Lowell Thomas Award for travel...

, L. Peat O'Neil

L. Peat O'Neil

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, Tom Miller

Tom Miller

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, C. M. Mayo, Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester

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 and Amanda Jones.

In 2010, Rolf Potts traveled around the world in six weeks with no luggage or bags of any kind.

Published in anthologies

• The Best Travel Writing 2009
• The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 2, W.W. Norton
• The Best Travel Writing 2008
• Encounters with the Middle East
• The Best American Travel Writing 2006, Houghton Mifflin
  Houghton Mifflin
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• Tales From Nowhere, Lonely Planet
  Lonely Planet
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• The Best Travel Writing 2006
• What Color is Your Jockstrap?
• The World is a Kitchen
• By the Seat of My Pants, Lonely Planet
• The Best Travel Writing 2005
• Travel Writing, Lonely Planet
• The Best Travelers' Tales 2004
• The Kindness of Strangers, Lonely Planet
• Hyenas Laughed at Me and Now I Know Why: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure
• A House Somewhere: Tales of Life Abroad, Lonely Planet
• Travelers' Tales: Turkey
• Salon.com's Wanderlust: Real-Life Tales of Adventure and Romance, Villard/Random House
• Best American Travel Writing 2000, Houghton Mifflin
• Adrenaline 2000: The Year's Best Stories of Adventure and Survival
• Not So Funny When it Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure
• Travelers' Tales: Greece

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