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Travel writer Rolf Potts on porn conventions, parasocial podcast friends and his NYT-recommended podcast, Deviate (opens the original)
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Earlier this month, I interviewed Rolf Potts during his summer Paris Writing Workshops.Rolf is the author of travel bestseller Vagabonding and his work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic Traveler, Sports Illustrated, the Travel Channel, and National Public Radio, as well as in over 20 nonfiction anthologies, including the Best American Travel Writing series and the Best Creative Nonfiction series.
[REPLAY] Death Valley National Park, Land of Sand and Silence (opens the original)
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I’m on vacation this week! Please enjoy this re-run of an earlier story. ________________________________________________________________________Hello friend,Back in April 2021, exhausted from cleaning out my mother’s house after her death, I drove her white 2002 Chevrolet Impala into the desert and didn’t tell anyone. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!29Jv!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazo
Science Fiction on the Silk Road (opens the original)
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Hello friend, I hope this man doesn’t think I’m staring at him.I’m on a bus from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan to Almaty, Kazakhstan. And well, I am staring. But at his book, not at him. He turns the page and I spot the title. Ah, I’m right. It’s another copy of Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary, the third one I’ve caught sight of in my two months traveling in Central Asia.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xuJ-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/h
None of the Rivers Reach the Sea (opens the original)
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Hello friend, When my plane descends into Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, the woman to my left nudges me awake, her finger pointing out at the Tien Shan mountain range. For a moment I’m startled, then grateful I’m awake to see the sun peaking over the mountains. Lake Issyk-Kul, the world’s second-largest mountain lake, stretches out in the distance, a deep blue speck in a tan desert. Kyrgyzstan is a landlocked country of roughly 7.5 million people and is over 80% covered with mountains. It is farther fro
The Ones Who Left Drive Trucks (opens the original)
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Hello friend, I’m sitting on a bench in Bukhara, Uzbekistan when a man walks up and sits down next to me. For two hours, I’ve been photographing the city’s towers and tiles, and I’m ready for a break from the heat. It’s not yet 10am and the temperature hovers around 110 degrees, the sun’s brightness bleaching the burned bricks of the city. I’m hot and take a drink of cold water from my ThermoFlask to stave off crankiness. In a spear of shadow thrown by Kalyan Minaret, a 150-foot-high minaret bui
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