Vagabonding

Oh, yeah, for sure.

I mean, there's a book called Vagabonding.

I think the author's name is Rolf Potts.

But it's all about just getting out there, seeking a little adventure, kind of seeing where life takes you.

So in a certain way, I can't really compare those... super condensed travels I did in my 20s and 30s when I was gone for three or four years at a time.

Or that even like when I stopped to write Vagabonding, I stopped to write it in Thailand.

It wasn't a place I considered home.

It was just another waypoint that I got to know a little bit better, but it never really became a home necessarily.

I mean, maybe some people do, but that's not necessarily how everybody should be.

And maybe a younger, more romanticized version of me thought that I might travel indefinitely, but it's really satisfying to come home and sort of put home in conversation with the rest of the world.

When you were 20 or 30 or when you were writing Vagabonding, do you think that that guy would relate to the idea of coming home? How at home were you when you came home? I'm guessing you arriving home from travel feels different than me arriving home after vacation.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, for sure.

I mean, there's a book called Vagabonding.

I think the author's name is Rolf Potts.

But it's all about just getting out there, seeking a little adventure, kind of seeing where life takes you.

And so I

was an early adopter of websites and literally the first iteration of Vagabonding, the book that will be chiseled on my gravestone, was on my website.

I was just, people were asking me for travel advice.

And instead of saying, this is what you pack in your bag, I was giving philosophical advice because it was the philosophy that made me travel.

Yeah, we'll link it down below.

Yeah.

But no, Vagabonding, The Vagabond's Way, I love talking about those.

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