New book "THE VAGABOND'S WAY: 366 Meditations on Wanderlust, Discovery and the Art of Travel" available now.
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I realize these bestseller stats don’t portend anything beyond what is being bought within a given hour. Still, the 30-year-old who sat down in a room in Thailand and started writing Vagabonding more than two decades ago would be gobsmacked by this Christmas-season juxtaposition.
The announcements, ruminations, links, and quotes I used to post here have moved over to my Substack feed, which also features outtakes from THE VAGABOND'S WAY, and a weekly feature entitled "Deviate Mini-Essays: Creative Free-Writes for Life's Journey." substack.com/@rolfpotts
Stoked to peruse the results of the 2026 Solas Awards for Best Travel Writing...and see that students from my 2025 Paris Travel Memoir class swept the top two prizes in the "Travel Memoir" category. Congrats, Marek and Julia!
Should you want to gift yourself an international learning experience this holiday season, please consider coming to my annual Travel Memoir Workshop in Paris, Aug. 24-28, 2026.
No writing experience is necessary; all levels welcome. For details, go to pariswritingworkshops.com.
I have been interviewing one travel writer each month for the past 25 years at RolfPotts.com. Here is my retrospective about this monthly ritual (which dates back to the pre-podcast, pre-social-media, dial-up Internet era). rolfpotts.com/25-years-of-tr…
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A while back Rolf Potts put together a compendium of travel writers. Its' quite remarkable for it's breadth and the range of people. If you hanker to be a travel writer it's a good place to start. rolfpotts.com/writing/travel…
"The unexamined life is not worth living? I would take it a step further and say the unexamined life is not living.
You're running on scripts you did not choose. So you're effectively, like ChatGPT, responding to prompts."
--@tferriss via @KateSullivanTV
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The Oscar-nominated cowriter of BEFORE SUNRISE and BEFORE SUNSET, Kim Krizan, will be teaching a Paris screenwriting class with me the week of August 25-29. . No prior writing experience is necessary; all levels are welcome. For details, go to pariswritingworkshops.com.
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NEW ! “Screenwriting in Paris” course 8/25-29 with Kim Krizan (BEFORE SUNSET) and @rolfpotts. #paris #writing #workshop #screenwriting #film #travelwriting
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“Get a stack of postcards. And every time you want to send a text message, send them a two-week postcard instead.”
— Rolf Potts
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This month marks the 10-year anniversary of Object Lessons, a series of small, beautiful books that explore the hidden lives of ordinary things.
In today’s Academic blog post 10 authors reflect on 10 years of Object Lessons bit.ly/3Cs9BvV
"To write The Color Of Money I had to hang out with pool hustlers. For Sea Of Love, I had to do ride-alongs with cops. They always say, write about what you know. But if what you know is not enough, learn something more. Then that becomes what you know." npr.org/2024/11/14/nx-s1-518…
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The short film “The Game Camera” features Kansas talent, including Kristen Bush, who stars and co-wrote the script with her husband, Rolf Potts. Bush spoke with KMUW's Jedd Beaudoin on “Wichita’s Early Edition.”
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I'm now accepting 2025 registrations for the travel memoir writing classes I teach each year in Paris. The class will take place August 18-22, 2025. See pariswritingworkshops.com for class and application details.
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Friends University alumni George Potts, better known as Energy Green Grandpa, was covered by the Kansas Living Magazine for his conservation energy lessons on YouTube. Go check out this eco-loving Falcon's channel!
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Today on the Incidental Comics newsletter: Conflict in Literature, or How I Became a Meme
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Who knew a plane full of criminals could make for such a sentimental journey?
@rolfpotts recounts why “Con Air”, with all of its cliches, will always have a special place in his heart.
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Just a casual trip to Iraq. Author and adventurer, @rolfpotts, takes us to Syria on this week's #YouBeTrippin! 🇸🇾 youtu.be/Ldf4Dj0tfuo
Thanks to the 2014 AL Wild Card game, which I saw in person with my 75-year old dad, Sept 30 will always feel like a holiday to me. Thrilled to see the @Royals going back to the WC this year! (H/T @jazayerli & @Koreanfan_KC, who I'll always associate with my 2014 Royals fandom.)
"In a part of Africa where the conventional tourism industry was built around a wildlife-focused, British colonial footprint, @lets_drift [a Nairobi-based outdoor recreation community] stands out as an exuberant Kenyan-centered enterprise." nytimes.com/2024/08/26/trave…
