Deviate With Rolf Potts

“Embrace your travel mistakes. You can’t ‘fail’ at travel; you can only learn from travel.” –Rolf Potts In this episode of Deviate, which excerpts a keynote talk from TravelCon, Rolf talks a bit about his background of growing up in Kansas and dreaming about travel, his earliest vagabonding travels, and his first forays into travel writing (3:30); then Rolf shares his “20 lessons learned from 20 years as a travel writer,” (7:30). Notable Links: TravelCon (travel-media conference) ​Don George​ (travel writer) Rolf’s ongoing travel writer interview series Eva Holland (travel writer) Bachata (Dominican dance style) Merengue (Dominican dance style) Omo Valley (tribal region in Ethiopia) Mursi people (ethnic group in Ethiopia) Ranong (town in Thailand) Gringo Trails (2013 travel documentary film) Podcasts and essays alluded to: Nomadic Matt Kepnes on travel (Deviate episode) Van Life before #VanLife (Deviate episode) A Trans-Siberian story (Deviate episode) No Baggage Challenge (round-the-world video series) T