Rolf Potts isn’t in Kansas anymore. He’s off his beloved family farm, traveling the country. The road is the usual place to find Potts – he spent several years reporting from around the world during ...

Unlike when I first backpacked across Asia for two years on a shoestring budget a quarter of a century ago, 2022 sees a historically unprecedented wealth of useful travel information online (hey, like ...

Rolf Potts is a writer best known for promoting an ethic of independent travel. His work, reported from over fifty countries, has appeared in National Geographic Traveler, Slate, Conde Nast Traveler, ...

Whether learning to windsurf on the Sea of Galilee or analyzing how Che Guevara is depicted in Cuba (answer: he is "both Jesus Christ and Ronald McDonald"), the travel writer Rolf Potts has made his ...

What does the native Kansan best known as the author of a book on long-term travel do in the midst of worldwide travel restrictions? Hunker down and increase the number of podcasts he’s producing from ...

Rolf Potts is on a bag-free journey around the world. I’m drawing some inspiration from his videos, both in terms of packing lighter and planning my next trip. In a video post, he shows us exactly how ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Packing for a holiday can be frustrating, time consuming and rarely delivers the result you were hoping for. Then there's the annoyance ...

The HBO series, returning Sunday, obsessively works to prove it's not a tourist in New Orleans. It ends up losing the city—and the viewers—in the process.