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Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel |  | Author: Rolf Potts
Publisher: Villard Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  73 reviews
Sales Rank: 2023
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 224
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0812992180
Dewey Decimal Number: 910
EAN: 9780812992182
ASIN: 0812992180
Publication Date: December 24, 2002
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Product Description
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 on your own terms. Veteran shoestring traveler Rolf Potts shows how anyone armed with an independent spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel. Potts gives the necessary information on:
• financing your travel time
• determining your destination
• adjusting to life on the road
• working and volunteering overseas
• handling travel adversity
• re-assimilating back into ordinary life
Not just a plan of action, vagabonding is an outlook on life that emphasizes creativity, discovery, and the growth of the spirit.
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 Ok March 9, 2010
Lady Loo (Chicago)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had hoped this book would blow me away with wonderful ideas and new insights, but the majority of the stuff I already knew or didn't really care about. It did have some good resources for websites and other books to check out.
 More why than how February 8, 2010
Marcus Schuetz (Hong Kong SARm China)
Honestly, the title "Vagabonding" nearly made me not read this book, when I came across it searching for literature on sabbaticals. But then I had a very positive surprise after downloading first the sample on my Kindle DX, to read opinions and views on long term travel as a way of life and not as a "break". The book is very well researched and inspired me to read further, also following many citations and quotes. By this the book became a key to more dimensions and it reached the objective to be beyond a classical travel guide. Very good book for those, who are thinking more about the why than the how.
fun and inspiring practical handbook February 2, 2010
Konrad Baumeister
For such a short book, Vagabonding packs in a great deal of information, both practical and entertaining. The author covers in 11 bite-sized chapters his philosophy, and hopefully soon to be yours, of enjoying life, learning from travel, stretching one's horizons and really living life in the present. Why live life to travel, when you can travel to live life?
The book starts with the basic idea of embracing long-term travel, and how to allow yourself, and talk your boss into allowing you, to take some real time off; how to prepare for the adventure; how much planning to do and how much to leave to chance and whim; what to pack and definitely what not to haul along; finding work while abroad to raise the occasional beer money; when you need help and where to find it; meeting people; documenting and memorializing the experience; and finally, optionally I suppose, coming home and coming down.
Throughout the book are short bios of famously peripatetic types, quotes from others on their experiences and awakenings, and some anecdotes from the road. More importantly, the book is absolutely loaded with websites, contact info, and specifics on how and where to learn more about every facet of the experience.
A book as compact and stuffed with valuable information is well worth bringing with you on your next trip, and will surely enhance any long-term travel you have in mind now and in the future.
 5 Stars for Inspiration, 5 for Information January 2, 2010
Alexander F. Heyne (South Carolina)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There are two main things I liked about this book:
A) It is THE book if you want the urge to "just take the first plane ticket anywhere, and go on an adventure." This book is amazing motivation if you are considering doing a long-term travel trip.
B) It gives concise resources. Nothing more to say, information is all there.
C) The quotes. Nothing like poetic (and wise) statements that make you want to give it all up and go.
I personally loved it. I can hardly contain my excitement over the next 6 months before I leave.
short and useful December 9, 2009
Sandra Tieger (London, UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I don't like to be as cheap as possible when traveling. I think that a part of a long-term travel is to enjoy the wealth the world has to offer you, and yes - sometimes, that joy costs some cash.
There's a way to avoid spending a fortune on hotels or nickels on less comfortable hostels, and that's being a guest in someone's house. Lately, the Couch-Surfing fashion is catching quite well... I had tried it, and it's great, in both ways - when you have a guest and when you are a guest in somebody's house.
This book has listed some great resources, and even if for its philosophy alone - read it.
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