{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthe-art-of-manliness.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fthe-vagabond-travel-ethos-UbHz4MYZ","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"The Vagabond Travel Ethos","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/5b7d8c77-15ba-4eff-a999-2e725db21db5/0dbb2522-c63f-4bea-bb79-1b525d40a696/art-of-manliness-cover.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"Travel can often be approached as just another consumer good; travelers quickly dive in and out of a place, check off the things they want to see, harvest the requisite pictures to prove they were there, and wear their trip as a status symbol.\n\nMy guest, Rolf Potts, thinks there's a better way to approach travel. After exploring the world for years, he wrote a book called Vagabonding, which laid out the practicalities of how to execute long-term travel.\n\nTwenty years later, he's back with a new book — The Vagabond's Way — with reflections on the more philosophical side of that kind of travel which you can take on any type of trip. "}