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Oct 2022
45m 37s

The Vagabond Travel Ethos

THE ART OF MANLINESS
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Travel can often be approached as just another consumer good; travelers quickly dive in and out of a place, check off the things they want to see, harvest the requisite pictures to prove they were there, and wear their trip as a status symbol.My guest, Rolf Potts, thinks there's a better way to approach travel. After exploring the world for years, he wrote a ... Show More
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