The Passage

Rolf Potts | "Storming 'The Beach'" (Marco Polo Didn't Go There) | Travel | Ep. 1

Sonntag, 1. März 2026 · 51 min

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Rolf Potts -- godfather of travel writing in the digital age and bestselling author of Vagabonding, Marco Polo Didn't Go There, and The Vagabond's Way -- reads from his breakout piece "Storming the Beach" and discusses how he came up with the idea of infiltrating the set of a Leonardo DiCaprio movie in Thailand, and then how he figured out how to write about it.

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