“Savoring is attending to the moment.” – Stephanie Rosenbloom

In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Stephanie discuss solitude versus loneliness (3:00); the joy of eating alone (14:00); the art of being a flaneur and savoring experiences (22:00); the joy of going to museums alone (32:00); the relationship between anticipation, experience, and retrospection (43:00); and exercising your travel muscles as part of everyday life (54:00).

Stephanie Rosenbloom (@stephronyt) is a travel writer for The New York Times, where she has been a reporter for more than a decade, and the author of the book, Alone Time: Four Seasons, Four Cities, and the Pleasures of Solitude. For more about Stephanie, check out http://www.stephanierosenbloom.com.

Notable Links:

Abraham Maslow (psychologist)
AllTrails (website)
Bella DePaulo (Professor of Psychology)
Thích Nhất Hạnh (Vietnamese Buddhist monk)
Savoring: A New Model of Positive Experience, by Fred Bryant (book)
The Lonely Guy (Steve Martin movie)
Charles Baudelaire (poet)
Sandro Botticelli (painter)
The Birth of Venus (painting by Botticelli)
Elizabeth Dunn (psychologist)
On Photography, by Susan Sontag (collection of essays)
Marcel Duchamp (painter / sculptor)
LiveTrekker (app)

Solo travel: Celebrating the pleasures of (and strategies for) journeying alone

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Solo travel: Celebrating the pleasures of (and strategies for) journeying alone