Rolf Potts in Minneapolis

Rolf Potts, travel writer extraordinaire, made a pit stop in the Twin Cities over the weekend.

He was in town to promote his new book, Marco Polo Didn't Go There.

I've been a fan of Rolf's work for many years so when I saw that he would be speaking at the Twin Cities Book Festival, I sent him an email and arranged for an interview.

Turns out, he's as easy to talk to as he is to read. And I'm totally digging his new title, which is a collection of many of his well-known travel essays.

I've seen most of them before, but now he's offered a twist. At the end of each, he offers two to three pages of "end notes" where he goes back through the essay and tells you what he had to leave out in order to make the story work.

As a writer, I'm finding these end notes to be just as, if not more, interesting than the actual essay.

Now I just need to sit down and encapsulate our conversation in an article. Of course, I'll post a link to it here when it's done.