The Vagabond's Way

<b>&#147;Thought-provoking encouraging and inspiring&#148; (Gretchen Rubin) reflections on the power of travel to transform our daily lives&#151;from the iconoclastic travel writer scholar and author of <i>Vagabonding</i></b><br><br>For readers who dream of travel yearn to get back out on the road or want to enrich a journey they&#146;re currently on <i>The Vagabond&#146;s Way</i> explores and celebrates the life-altering essence of travel all year long. Each day of the year features a meditation on an aspect of the journey anchored by words of wisdom from a variety of thinkers&#151;from Stoic philosopher Seneca and poet Maya Angelou to Trappist monk Thomas Merton and Grover from <i>Sesame Street</i>.<br> &#160;<br>Iconoclastic travel writer and scholar Rolf Potts embraces the ragged-edged harder-to-quantify aspects of travel that inevitably change travelers&#146; lives for the better in unexpected ways. The book&#146;s various sections mirror the phases of a trip including<br><br>&#149; <b>dreaming and planning the journey:</b> &#147;All life-affecting journeys&#151;and the unexpected wonders they promise&#151;become real the moment you decide they will happen.&#148;<br>&#149; <b>embracing the rhythms of the journey:</b> &#147;The most poignant experiences on the road occur in those quiet moments when we recognize beauty in the ordinary.&#148;<br>&#149; <b>finding richer travel experiences:</b> &#147;Developing an instinct to venture beyond the obvious on the road allows you to see places as mysteries to be investigated.&#148;<br>&#149; <b>expanding your comfort zone:</b> &#147;No moment of instant gratification can compare to savoring an experience that has been earned by enduring the adversity that comes with it.&#148;&#160;<br><br><i>The Vagabond&#146;s Way</i> encourages you to sustain the mindset of a journey even when you aren&#146;t able to travel and affirms that travel is as much a way of being as it is an act of movement.