#329: Where To Next (@RolfPotts)

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🗓️ 2 July 2018

⏱️ 232 minutes

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Summary

Rolf Potts brought over an old paper atlas to my apartment and we leafed through it and imagined all the places we want to go. Every page bringing new ideas for adventure. Rolf is a traveler. He's seen things and done things and been to places that make me envious and fill me with wonder.

This is Rolf's second time on the podcast. He's a travel writer who wrote the book "Vagabonding" that I carried around with me to 3 countries, finally read on an island off Cambodia, and then carried to two more countries until I gifted it to another traveler in Indonesia.

Check out his podcast, Deviate with Rolf Potts.

My upcoming road schedule:

Tickets at arithegreat.com

Montreal - July 25-28

Edinburgh - Aug 2-26

Austin - Sept 19-22

Phoenix ATC Fest - Oct 25-28

Iceland - Nov 16

Brighton - Nov 19

London - Nov 21 & 22

Manchester Nov 23

Dublin - Nov 25

Brussels - Nov 26

Amsterdam - Nov 27

Stockholm - Nov 29

Stavanger - Nov 30

Berlin - December 2

Copenhagen - Dec 4

Oslo - December 5

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm a big fan of accidentally being amazed.
0:02.9	What am I hearing?
0:03.7	Well, you can read about Machu Picchu or the Eiffel Tower.
0:06.7	Go there and be amazed.
0:08.4	And I can vouch for both those places.
0:10.2	Machu Picchu and Eiffel Tower are both
0:13.2	you feel amazed in their presence.
0:15.1	But then there's the amazement that comes with
0:17.6	Moche pyramids.
0:19.1	Holy shit, this is amazing.
0:21.8	Basically, it's finding things by accident
0:23.9	and stumbling into a kind of amazement
0:25.9	that you hadn't expected.
0:27.8	The part of your amazement was that it was accidental
0:31.5	that you didn't plan on having seen this.
0:34.1	That you've seen something that's like,
0:36.0	how in the world did I not know this existed?
0:39.6	I'm in a place like in Rwanda where I feel like
0:43.3	I could be in Switzerland or something.
0:44.8	Why did I not know about this?
0:46.4	And that's one of the big gifts of travel is being in a place
0:52.7	thinking that you're there for reason A
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