Long-Term Friend of AirTreks
Rolf Potts & Sean of AirTreks
Rolf named BootsnAll (Sean is a Co-Founder) in the original Vagabonding back in 2003. We built the Vagabonding Forum off the back of it, sent him around the world with no luggage, and have kept working together ever since - five or six trips in the last decade alone.
Twenty-plus years on, we are still here doing the same thing: getting people to more places than a search box thinks is possible.
For Deviate listeners & Vagabonding readers
Talk your route through with a specialist
Free, no obligation, no booking required. Bring the trip you have been sketching: eight stops, four continents, vague dates. Our specialists are like Rolf, except they haven’t written books but they have built thousands of these trips and gone RTW multiple times will tell you what is actually bookable, what it costs, and where the routing fights you.
This is the part algorithms are worst at, and the part we have done since 1987.
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Any of Rolf's books, on us
Book a trip with AirTreks and pick a title. We send it before you leave, not after you get back - a book about long-term travel is more use in the planning than in the scrapbook.
- Vagabonding
- The Vagabond's Way
- Marco Polo Didn't Go There
- Souvenir
- The Geto Boys (33⅓)
- The Misadventures of Wenamun
Travelling before it could reach you, or outside the US? Take it as an ebook or audiobook instead.
Almost 30 years of Vagabonding
Every link below still works, which for a thirty-year trail is most of the point.
- 1998Rolf is traveling and writing for Salon. Sean, Chris and Nick of BootsnAll are getting started
- 2003Rolf names BootsnAll in Vagabonding
The original edition, Random House. That is where this starts.
- Jan 2001 - Feb 2015The Vagabonding Forum
BootsnAll built it so the people reading the book had somewhere to talk. It ran for fourteen years and held 2,577 discussions across 23,355 posts. Still readable.
- Sep 2008Rolf answers the community's questions
Twelve questions submitted by BootsnAll members. He answered all of them.
- 2010The No Baggage Challenge
Around the world with no luggage, sponsored by BootsnAll, finishing in New York. The site is still up, field reports and all.
- Jun 2014How I Travel launches with Rolf
BootsnAll started the whole profile series with him.
- Jan 2015The original vagabonding story
Told at Meet, Plan, Go's career break event and published here.
- The last decadeAirTreks and Sean work with Rolf
Five or six trips around the world that we routed and booked, the RTW blog, sponsoring Deviate from its first season, and two long conversations on the show.
- TodayStill going
Rolf and AirTreks continue to collaborate and work on trips that continue the complex and long-term travel tradition and ethos.
Sean of AirTreks on Deviate
Enjoy them.