Vagabonding

"Vagabonding" is about taking time off from your normal life - from six weeks to four months to two years - to discover and experience the world for yourself. Not just a plan of action, vagabonding is an outlook on life that emphasizes creativity, discovery, and the growth of the spirit. Veteran shoestring traveler Rolf Potts shows how anyone armed with an independent, curious spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel, once thought to be the sole province of students, counterculture dropouts, and the idle rich. Potts explains how to: earn your freedom; plan and prepare for your travels; simplify your lifestyle and adapt to life on the road; handle travel adversity; come home and reassimilate into ordinary life. Much more than a traditional guidebook, Vagabonding is an unusual mix of philosophy, profiles of historical "vagabonders," illuminating quotations, everyday "Vagabonding Voices," and stories from the road.