Using (and hacking) paper travel guidebooks, 25 years on

Blog – Rolf Potts
12/01/2019
Using (and hacking) paper travel guidebooks, 25 years on

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Twenty-five years ago this month, when I was about to embark on an eight-month van journey around North America (my first-ever vagabonding sojourn), my sister gifted me this copy of Let’s Go USA 1993. At the time I had only the dimmest conception of what indie travel-guidebooks were. That first journey taught me that travel…

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