"Thoughtful Traveling" ~ February 20, 2016
Channel: Stan McGahey
Date: 2016-02-16

URL: https://youtu.be/0DxRPFwO5bQ

Hello Again Thoughtful Travelers!  Welcome to today’s thought for February 20, 2016. 

It’s by Will Rogers, an American entertainer and humorist who lived from 1879 to 1935.

 “I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it’s their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.” 

So what are your thoughts on today’s quote? Here’s mine:

“Good advice is not to talk about religion or politics when you’re a stranger in a strange land. It’s usually not a good way to make new friends. But some travelers can’t resist solving the world’s problems based on their superior intellect and reasoning.  To make matters worse, they often say, ‘Back home we do it like this, blah, blah, blah’, and think that whatever they just said is applicable to the rest of the world. So, if you must join a discussion of another country’s government, maybe you should mostly listen politely and ask a few simple questions that enables the locals to explain things better to you.”

Now…here’s the list of all the sources quoted in February.  I hope you’ll stop by each day to enjoy all the interesting and insightful things they have to say.  And leave a comment.  I’d like to hear your thoughts too.  Thanks, and see you tomorrow!

February 1-29, 2016 (entries listed by date and source):
01 Rene Descartres
02 Yogi Berra
03 Dave Mathews Band
04 George Santayana
05 (African Proverb)
06  Daniel Boorstin
07 Michel de Montaigne
08 (Korean Proverb)
09 Helen Hayes
10 J. R. R. Tolkien
11 G. K. Chesterton
12 Lord Dunsany
13 (The Dhammapada)
14 Japanese Proverb)
15 James Michener
16 Oliver Goldsmith
17  (Unknown)
18  Hillaire Belloc
19 Kin Hubbard
20 Will Rogers
21 Isabelle Eberhardt
22 Socrates
23 Sri Sathva Baba
24 Thomas Jefferson
25 Charles Louis de Secondat
26 (Quran: Al-Hujurat/13)
27 William Least Heat Moon
28 Saint Augustin of Hippo
29 Samuel Butler

Presented by Dr. Stan McGahey.  Want to learn how the tourism industry works? View my free series of short, narrated PPTs on a variety of important topics, entitled “Demystifying Tourism” on YouTube.