Category: Amazing Vagabonds
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Desiderius Erasmus – Extraordinary Scholar and Vagabond
by Sofie Couwenbergh Desiderius Erasmus was a scholar and a humanist born around October 27 1466 in Rotterdam. His birth name was actually Gerrit Gerritszoon (Gerard Gerardson), but he Latinized…
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Vagabond Anarchist – Emma Goldman
Her life was filled with constant movement from city to city and town to town.
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Extraordinary Travelers – Cosmas the Flat Earther
He was not the person that ‘cosmology’ was named after, though it was one of his passions.
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Happy Fools Day! Fools take risks! Be a fool!
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and…
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Extraordinary Marseille Vagobond – Pytheas of the Midnight Sun – Namer of Britain
Pytheas was the first sailor to record a trip to Britain, where I am now. We could say that he ‘discovered’ Britain, though like saying Columbus discovered America
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Graham Hughes – Every Country in the World with no Air Travel – Amazing Vagabond
Graham Hughes in an Amazing Vagabond. The British man is the first in the world to ever visit all 201 countries without using air transport.
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Herodotus – The Father of History (and all Vagabonds)
Not only the father of history but of anthropology, and one can equally (but not so forcefully) argue he is the father of all travel writers and vagabonds.
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Amazing Vagabond: Anthony Bourdain
I still miss Anthony Bourdain. Remembering he is gone makes me sad although, I don’t know that he would have been enjoying himself in Covid Times – hell, he wasn’t…
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Eudoxus of Cyzicus – Extraordinary Navigator Lost at Sea
f you start a conversation about either Eudoxus or Cyzicus – you are likely to immediately asked Who? What? or Huh?
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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.
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Extraordinary Vagabonds – Nearchus the Voyager
Nearchus the Voyager lived during a time when the great shadow of Alexander cast it’s light over all in the world, he would be remembered as one of the great…
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Buddhist Vagabond – His Holiness, The Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama was listed as the second most spiritual person on Earth by the Watkins Review. Many films and novels have been inspired by the Dalai Lama’s life and…
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Extraordinary Carthaginian Vagabond – Hanno the Navigator
Can Hanno the Navigator even be classified as a vagabond? To my mind, the answer is yes – in that a vagabond is anyone who sets out on a voyage…
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Mark Twain – Riverboat Vagabond
The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader…
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Henry Rollins – Punk Rock Vagabond
Henry Rollins is a punk rock vagabond activist.
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Bicycle Vagabond – Dave Stamboulis
The hardest part of being a constant traveler is missing the time and energy necessary to put into relationships at home. Close to that would be a few other things,…
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Jack Kerouac
This is an excerpt from my book “Vagabonds: Sometimes Getting Lost is the Point” . It’s available as an ebook for kindle or ebook readers. Over the next several months we…
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Erik the Red
This is an excerpt from my book “Vagabonds: Sometimes Getting Lost is the Point” . It’s available as an ebook for kindle or ebook readers. Over the next several months we…
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Extraordinary Vagabonds: Harry Franck, Pioneer of the Vagabonds
Harry Franck’s willingness to travel with no money, his keen eye for the details of his journey and the societies he recorded (some of which soon disappeared) make him a…
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Extraordinary Vagabond – Ed Buryn – Vagabond King
Travel is not just moving over the earth from one place to another in some kind of conveyance. It’s not about where you’re going or how you’re getting there. It’s…
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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…
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Jim Bridger – Vagabond Saddle Tramp
This is an excerpt from my book “Vagabonds: Sometimes Getting Lost is the Point” . It’s available as an ebook for kindle or ebook readers. Over the next several months we…
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Amazing Vagabond – Chris Guillebeau – Every Country in the World
Chris Guillebeau is such a genuinely nice guy that even the hater trolls can’t seem to hate him as he makes his way to every country in the world.
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Vino Vagabond Writer – Linda Kissam
Linda specializes in easy, breezy destination stories focusing on what makes each destination special through it culinary and wine, beer and spirits scene and the soft adventures that surround those…
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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…
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