{"id":7422,"date":"2012-01-05T10:54:01","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T15:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/?p=7422"},"modified":"2012-02-25T19:27:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T00:27:28","slug":"contact-with-rolf-potts-foremost-travel-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/contact-with-rolf-potts-foremost-travel-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolf Potts, foremost travel writer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7423\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7423\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/rolf2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7423\" title=\"rolf2\" src=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/rolf2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/rolf2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/rolf2-350x215.jpg 350w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/rolf2-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/rolf2-600x369.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolf Potts, travel writer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rolf Potts is arguably one of the best travel writers in a generation.<\/strong> (According to media outlets and what <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rick_Steves\" target=\"_blank\">Rick Steves<\/a> says anyway.)<\/p>\n<hr width=\"30%\" \/>\n<p>Rolf Pott&#8217;s newest\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rolfpotts.com\/marco\/\" target=\"_blank\">book<\/a> &#8220;Marco Polo Didn&#8217;t Go there&#8221; explores more than decade of his extensive travel to 5 continents.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&amp;bc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;fc1=000000&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;t=thbloflicode-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as4&amp;m=amazon&amp;f=ifr&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;asins=1932361618\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Last year, Rolf went on a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rtwblog.com\/category\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">No Baggage<\/a>\u00a0trip challenge, <strong>traveling 30,000 + miles with no luggage<\/strong>, and it got me to thinking how this type of perspective can be applied to everyday life.<\/p>\n<p>His feat begs the question:<br \/>\nWhat do we really need to <strong>have<\/strong> to live well? It turns out, not much.<\/p>\n<p>Fascinated with his pure and simple approach, I contacted him to do a Ninja Interview. He responded positively within minutes to my request. So, stay tuned for what looks to be one of the most interesting people the <a title=\"NiNJA Video Archive\" href=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/blog\/ninja\/ninja-video-archive\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ninja Interviews<\/a> has &#8220;attacked&#8221;. I get the feeling <em>Adventure<\/em> is Rolf&#8217;s middle name. Visit his <a href=\"http:\/\/rolfpotts.com\" target=\"_blank\">site<\/a>, and see if you don&#8217;t agree.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, how many of you know that I went backpacking around Europe? Yep. 11 countries in 28 days, with just $500 and a Eurail pass. In Prague my diet was 85% ice cream cones (because they were \u00a215 a piece). Crazy, but true. Hum. Maybe I should share some of those crazy tales sometime soon.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What&#8217;s the furthest you&#8217;ve been from home?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thoughts on traveling light from Rolf Potts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,76],"tags":[6538,2047,5355,2359,2637,2906,3088,86,3768],"class_list":["post-7422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-spirituality","tag-humor","tag-lisa-colon-delay","tag-ninja-interview","tag-no-baggage","tag-prague","tag-rolf-potts","tag-simple-living","tag-travel","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7422"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7469,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7422\/revisions\/7469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}