文档介绍：VAGABONDING
An mon Guide to the
Art of Long-Term World Travel
Rolf Potts ,
"Potts wants us to wander, to explore, to embrace the unsown, and, finally, to take our own damn
time about it. I think this is the most sensible book of travel-related advice ever written."
—TIM CAHILL, author of Hold the Enlightenment
Vagabonding
Vagabonding
AN MON GUIDE
TO THE ART
OF LONG-TERM
W O R L D TRAVEL
Rolf Potts
VILLARD 0i NEW YORK
Copyright © 2003 by Rolf Potts
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Places Made Me Do It" by Tim Cahill [Out­
side, March 2002). Copyright © 2002 by
Mariah Publications Corporation. Reprinted
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication
Data
Potts, Rolf.
Vagabonding: an mon guide to the art
of long-term world travel/Rolf Potts,
p. cm.
ISBN 0-8129-9218-0
1. Travel. 2. Sabbatical leave. I. Title.
2003 910—dc21
2002069029
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Printed in the United States of America on
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Book design by Judith Stagnltto Abbate
For two teachers:
E 0. POTTS,
prairie naturalist and
dreamer extraordinaire
And in memory of
JOHN FREDIN,
mentor and friend
(1930-2000)
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You objects that call from diffusion my meanings
and give t