Vagabonding by Rolf Potts
Philosophic, enlightening and richly informative. This book is about making time to enjoy your life, and fulfilling those impossible dreams. An excellent book worthy of more than five stars. I loved the book. Remember that youth only comes to you one time.
EXCERPTS:
Out of our insane duty to fear, fashion, and monthly payments on things we don’t really need—we quarantine our travels to short, frenzied bursts. In this way, as we throw our wealth at an abstract notion called “lifestyle,” travel becomes just another accessory—a smooth-edged, encapsulated experience that we purchase the same way we buy clothing and furniture.
The more we associate money with life, the more we convince ourselves that we’re too poor to buy our freedom.
Many Americans think extended overseas travel is the exclusive realm of students, counterculture dropouts, and the idle rich.
Vagabonding is about time—our only real commodity—and how we choose to use it.
Sierra Club founder John Muir (an ur-vagabonder if there ever was one) used to express amazement at the well-heeled travelers who would visit Yosemite only to rush away after a few hours of sightseeing. Muir called these folks the “time-poor”—people who were so obsessed with tending their material wealth and social standing that they couldn’t spare the time to truly experience the splendor of California’s Sierra wilderness.
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