William S. Burroughs – no other name rings so loudly in the annals of extraordinary literary vagabonds of the 20th century.
Category: Literary Travel
Cross Dressing Vagabond – Isabelle Eberhardt
Traveling the world used to be a game that only the men played, but as in all fields, brave pioneers broke out of the Victorian conception of women as meek and mild and showed that even the hardest travel makes no distinction among the sexes. Isabelle Eberhardt was one of these extraordinary feminist vagabonds.
Vagabond Anarchist – Emma Goldman
Her life was filled with constant movement from city to city and town to town.
Papa Vagabond- Ernest Hemingway
When it comes to famous vagabonds, people often forget that respected writers now often had their roots as shiftless vagabonds. Ernest Hemingway is no exception.
Silk Road Vagabond – Marco Polo
Going around the world hasn’t always been as easy as it is today. In fact, the great explorers of the past often suffered great hardships to see distant lands. One such extraordinary vagabond was Marco Polo.
Revolutionary Vagabond – Che Guevara
World travel was important to Che. Sure, you see his image on all kinds of clueless college kids t-shirts and hoodies and maybe later he was responsible for thousands of heartless deaths, but you gotta love that medical student who set out on his friend’s motorcycle to see the world.
John Steinbeck – California Vagabond
Steinbeck wrote of pirates, hobos, Mexican revolutionaries, drunkards, knights, kings, farmers and other unsavory types that have been described by the world as vagabonds. He was accused of being a communist by the right and a ‘hawk’ by the left – one thing for certain – He was a genius and a vagabond himself.
Nomad Vagabond – Genghis Khan
Traveling round the world doesn’t usually involve conquest of foreign lands but for Temujin, also known as Genghis Khan, conquest was probably just a means of travel.
A Lit-Nerd Road Trip Adventure through the Beautiful Northeast USA
If you are a nerd like me, pack up the car and embark on the great American road trip to discover the great American novel!
Lake Como, Italy – A Beautiful Daytrip from Bergamo or Milan
Lake Como – one of the most beautiful lakes in the world and a crown jewel of Italian masterpieces.