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Bare Feet and Beaches Sharing my Love of Travel

07/03/2025

Taking notice of details in a new place isn’t just a charm that accompanies the early days of a journey; it is a way of attuning you to an ever-broadening sense of experiential possibility as the journey deepens in new ways. Rolf Potts

06/03/2025

Embracing the “beginner’s mind” is a useful strategy for the disorientation that comes at the outset of a journey. On the road, we see the world with new eyes, undimmed by routines and familiarity. We pay fuller attention to our immediate environment. We embrace the joy that comes with learning and discovery. Rolf Potts

05/03/2025

In taking us to unfamiliar places and cultures, new journeys have a way of transporting us to an earlier time of life - specifically childhood, that time when so much of life remained a bright-edged mystery, and we weren’t fully attuned to the rules and schedules and expectations of the adult world. Rolf Potts

04/03/2025

I find the first few moments in a new country or city strange and disorienting. Things look and sound and smell different, sometimes even the dogs bark different. Seth Kugel

03/03/2025

I like going places where I don’t speak the language, don’t know my way around, and don’t have any delusions that I’m in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home. Michael Mewshaw

02/03/2025

To fly is the opposite of traveling; you cross a gap in space, vanish into the void, you accept not being in any place for a duration of time that is itself a kind of void in time; then you reappear, in a place and in a moment with no relation to the where and the when in which you vanished. Italo Calvino

01/03/2025

Of the gladdest moments in human life is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy. Richard Francis Burton

28/02/2025

If in doubt, the most reliable metric for becoming a better traveler is not the one you use to compare yourself with your fellow wanderers, but the quieter one you apply to yourself. - Rolf Potts

27/02/2025

The pleasure of travel increases in direct proportion to the decrease of baggage. - Richard Halliburton

Most of the things we pack for a journey are not necessarily.

Are you an over packer or a minimalist packer?

26/02/2025

Long term journeys need not be expensive. Rolf Potts

26/02/2025

Headed to Miami today so I can hop on a cruise ship tomorrow for a travel agent conference with my host agency. Found a great vegan spot for dinner, some interesting art and a beautiful sunset.

25/02/2025

Leaving a journey open to chance need not mean being reckless so much as receptive to the impromptu challenges and delights a journey offers. Rolf Potts

24/02/2025

Instead of filling your mind with new information, a walk clears it out and opens it up to innovative ways of thinking; instead of focusing your attention on concrete plans, a walk allows you to more vividly dream of wide open possibilities. - Rolf Potts

23/02/2025

In allowing yourself to be open hearted, improvisational, and curious about everything you encounter as the road trip plays out, you are putting yourself into the mindset of more far-flung journeys. Rolf Potts

22/02/2025

The twent-first century world has, in fact, become so globalized that - regardless of where you live - it’s possible to get a taste of the greater world in your own home community. Rolf Potts

21/02/2025

Each day on the road will make you a savvier traveler. In accepting that your “mediocre now-brain” has little idea what specific wonders and challenges and life- changing epiphanies are in store, you better equip yourself to simply follow your curiosity and passions and discover amazing new things as you go. Rolf Potts

20/02/2025

The best parts of travel can’t be packaged in advance. Rolf Potts

19/02/2025

As often as not, we travel to honor an urge we can’t quite explain, making the journey itself a way to better clarify why we’ve taken the journey. Rolf Potts

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