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Rolf Potts is a travel writer whose work has appeared in National Geographic Traveler, the New York Times Magazine, Slate.com, Condé Nast Traveler, Outside, The Believer, The Guardian, National Public Radio, the Travel Channel, Salon.com and World Hum. His travel advice book Vagabonding, which has been translated into several foreign languages, is in its tenth printing. He won the Lowell Thomas Award in 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007. Potts is the summer writer-in-residence at the Paris American Academy.

On Rolf Potts' Vagabonding blog, archives of more than 100 interviews with travel writers provide insight to the motivations of globe-trotting authors. Among the writers Potts has interviewed are: Arthur Frommer, Gayle Keck, Gary Lee, L. Peat O'Neil, Tom Miller, C. M. Mayo, Simon Winchester and Amanda Jones.

In 2010, Rolf Potts traveled around the world in six weeks with no luggage or bags of any kind.

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