Monday, October 1st, 2007
Death of a Burmese adventure traveller
by Warren
Rolf Potts is an excellent travel writer and a advocate of vagabonding. On a recent trip back to Tahiland, he heard tell that an old Burmese friend of his may have died, which launched him into this article about how adventure travel that’s sponsored by some Western company is more about fancy gear than actually understanding a place or culture. Living somewhere remote and exotic takes a whole lot more gumption, but barely ever gets covered by the media.