“When you smell a place, that’s when your experience of it starts.” – Rolf Potts

Wade Shepard (@vagabondjourney) is an itinerant writer and filmmaker who has been traveling the world, through ninety countries, since 1999. Digital nomads interested in lending experiences or insights to the documentary film The Nomads can contact Wade at wadeshepard@protonmail.com.

Notable Links:

• Baywatch (TV show)
• Damara (African ethnic group)
• Herrero (African ethnic group)
• @lukeoakvt (Rolf’s nephew’s TikTok account)
• Malagasy invasion of Africa (10th century battle)
• Pollyanna principle (positivity bias)
• Mursi (African ethnic group)
• FOMO (fear of missing out)
• The Beach (1996 novel)
• The Beach (2000 film)

The Deviate theme music comes from the title track of Cedar Van Tassel’s 2017 album Lumber.

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