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“Of all the adventures and challenges that wait on the vagabonding road, the most difficult can be the act of coming home.” quote by Rolf Potts — Download Open image

“Of all the adventures and challenges that wait on the vagabonding road, the most difficult can be the act of coming home.”

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“Ironically, the best litmus test for measuring your vagabonding gumption is found not in travel but in the process of earning your freedom to travel. Earning your freedom, of course, involves work—and work is intrinsic to vagabonding for psychic reasons as much as financial ones. To see the psychic importance of work, one need look no further than people who…

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