Vagabonds: Getting Lost Is the Point

Some people travel. Some people wander. And then there are the ones who can’t stop — the ones who gave up everything just to keep moving, who built their lives around the next horizon, who figured out that the map was never the territory.

This is a book about those people.

Vagabonds: Getting Lost Is the Point is a celebration of the explorers, wanderers, writers, and freewheelers who changed the world by refusing to stay put. From Herodotus and Ibn Battuta to Jack Kerouac and Anthony Bourdain — from Grandma Gatewood who hiked the Appalachian Trail alone at 67 to Emma Goldman who got herself deported for having too many ideas — this is the unofficial hall of fame of everyone who ever chose the road over the roof.

CD Damitio has been living this life since 2000: two VW buses, fifty countries, a decade spent outside America, and eventually Japan. He knows these people not as history but as kin.

The book ends with interviews with living vagabonds — travel writers, adventurers, and people who found a way to make the world their address. And, in the final interview, with Planet Earth itself.