What’s It Like To Be On The Road For ten Years? Ask Rolf

Rolf Potts, travel assistance columnist and champion of the resistance band reflects on his travels more than the past 10 years and his thoughts on the future of travel and travel writing in an interview on Globe Hum.

Rolf describes how David Foster Wallace’s 1996 genre-bending essay on cruise travel helped set the tone for travel writing in the decade ahead, and how globalization has hampered the ability of travel writers to find out uniqueness in a planet of ubiquitous pop-culture.

Potts also bemoans the loss of quality travel editors in the wake of the newspaper market’s economic woes, which to me signals the inevitable rise of independent, non-media conglomerated publications on line dedicated to the enjoy of travel. This is, of course, as Rolf points out the point of travel writing: a medium to discover truth in the planet.

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