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Thoughtprovoking encouraging and inspiring Gretchen Rubin reflections on the power of travel to transform our daily livesfrom the iconoclastic travel writer scholar and author of Vagabonding

For readers who dream of travel yearn to get back out on the road or want to enrich a journey theyre currently on The Vagabonds Way explores and celebrates the lifealtering 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 thinkersfrom Stoic philosopher Seneca and poet Maya Angelou to Trappist monk Thomas Merton and Grover from Sesame Street

Iconoclastic travel writer and scholar Rolf Potts embraces the raggededged hardertoquantify aspects of travel that inevitably change travelers lives for the better in unexpected ways The books various sections mirror the phases of a trip including

dreaming and planning the journey All lifeaffecting journeysand the unexpected wonders they promisebecome real the moment you decide they will happen
embracing the rhythms of the journey The most poignant experiences on the road occur in those quiet moments when we recognize beauty in the ordinary
finding richer travel experiences Developing an instinct to venture beyond the obvious on the road allows you to see places as mysteries to be investigated
expanding your comfort zone No moment of instant gratification can compare to savoring an experience that has been earned by enduring the adversity that comes with it

The Vagabonds Way encourages you to sustain the mindset of a journey even when you arent able to travel and affirms that travel is as much a way of being as it is an act of movement