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"For some reason, we see long-term travel to faraway lands as a recurring dream or an exotic tempation, but not something that applies to the here and now. Instead --- out of our insane duty to fear, fashion, and monthly payments on things we dont 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."
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Rolf Potts is an American travel writer, essayist, podcaster, and author. He has written five books, including Vagabonding, Marco Polo Didn't Go There, Souvenir, and The Vagabond's Way. The lifestyle philosophies he outlined in Vagabonding are considered to have been a key influence on the digital nomad movement.

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"Vagabonding is about gaining courage to loosen your grip on the so-called certainties of this world. Vagabonding is about refusing to exile travel to some other, seemingly more appropriate, time of your life. Vagabonding is about taking control of your circumstances instead of passively waiting for them to decide your fate. Thus, the question of how and when to start vagabonding is not really a question at all. Vagabonding starts now. Even if the practical reality of travel is still months or years away, vagabonding begins the moment you stop making excuses, start saving money, and begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility."
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