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Filed under: Arts and Culture, History, Learning, North Korea, Haiti Browsing through Gadling's offerings this week are posts about places from the people who have had first hand experience. Jerry's trip to Pyongyang brought him an unexpected "history lesson on [his] own [Chinese] cultural heritage." His posts are an opportunity to ride along and see North Korea through his eyes.

Filed under: Rolf Potts's Book TourWaldenbooks, Salina Central Mall Having completed my first and only shopping-mall-based Marco Polo Didn't Go There book-signing, I now know what it feels like to be a public social oddity -- to have people furrow their brows at you in bafflement at the sight of you, or avoid eye-contact altogether as they walk by.

Filed under: Rolf Potts's Book TourMy virtual book tour for Marco Polo Didn't Go There ended just last week, and -- while it was a lot of work -- it ended up being quite the success. Over course of ten days, I visited online venues like Tim Ferriss's 4-Hour Work Week and National Geographic Traveler's Intelligent Travel to answer questions and share stories and photos.

Filed under: Rolf Potts's Book TourAfter just two days on the road promoting Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations From One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer, I have learned one important lesson: Sex sells. Or, at least, sex gets people's attention in an otherwise staid bookstore environment.

Filed under: Business, Festivals and Events, Books, One for the Road As you've probably gathered we've geared up for a Rolf Potts extravaganza here at Gadling. Here's just another plug for Potts, but more so a shout out to one of Gadling's former bloggers who is bringing travel to your armchair through books.

Filed under: Arts and Culture, Books, Rolf Potts's Book TourRolf Potts, author of the great philosophical/travel/how-to book Vagabonding, has just wrapped his "virtual book tour," in support of his new book, Marco Polo Didn't Go There.

Filed under: Arts and Culture, Books, Talking Travel, Rolf Potts's Book Tour Rolf Potts has inspired more people to travel than any writer working today. His first book Vagabonding motivated my first long-term trip, and I've run into countless travelers who have said the same thing.

Is the dream job travel writing?  You get to travel while writing, making it sort of a vacation while you work.  Of course you don’t have to be a journalist to engage in writing while traveling.  Journalists and travel guide writers do get the perks and have their based particularly on traveling,

You Can Win a Copy of Rolf Potts’ New Book! For those of us who can’t be traveling all the time, there are travel writers who can transport us to far-off lands with their words. And for those of us who dream of traveling farther than we ever have before, there are travel writers who inspire us to take greater leaps - travel writers like Rolf Potts.

Ask Rolf Potts a Question, Win His New Book! Lots of travelers I know like nothing better when they’re not traveling (and often when they are) than to read something by a good travel writer - something that’s not just inspiring, but informative as well.