Episode Details

“The best experiences in life can be had for the price of showing up.” –Rolf Potts

In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Kiki take a road-trip to Colorado (with Salvie the cat yowling in his pet-carrier) and discuss how Rolf’s 2010 essay “5 Travel Lessons You Can Use at Home” can apply to home-life during a time of pandemic, including the notion that “Time = Wealth” (5:00); the importance of knowing how to “Be Where You Are” (8:30); the advantages of knowing when to “Slow Down” (20:00); the merit that comes in knowing how to “Keep it Simple” (25:00); and how life is more dynamic when you “Don’t Set Limits” (39:00).

Kristen “Kiki” Bush is an actress, known for Paterno (2018), Liberal Arts (2012), and Synecdoche, New York (2008). Her TV credits include The Affair, The Good Wife, Elementary, and Law & Order: SVU. She has performed onstage at Manhattan Theatre Club, The Public, the Old Globe, Goodman Theatre, and Lincoln Center.

For information on the Paris-based Travel Memoir classes Rolf is offering to Deviate listeners in 2021, inquire at deviate@rolfpotts.com, or via the online forms at the Paris Writing Workshops website.

Notable Links:

• “5 Travel Lessons You Can Use at Home,” by Rolf Potts (essay)
• “A personal history of nostalgia” (Deviate episode)
• Late Night with Seth Meyers (news satire talk show)
• Rocky Mountain National Park (American wilderness area)
• Geographers’ A–Z (British street atlas)
• Thomas Guide (Los Angeles street atlas)
• Marie Kondo (Japanese organizing consultant and author)
• No Baggage Challenge (Rolf’s 2010 minimalist journey)
• Hoarders (reality TV series)
• Bumble (dating app)
• Atomium (landmark building in Brussels)
• Kanopolis State Park (hiking area in Kansas)
• Marquette Pioneer Trail (hiking area in Kansas)
• Lindsborg (Swedish-settler town in Kansas)
• Sterling (small-college town in Kansas)
• Coronado Heights (sandstone overlook in central Kansas)
• Richard Rohr (American spiritual writer)
• This Week in Flips (producer Justin Glow’s YouTube channel)

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