"Thoughtful Traveling" ~ February 11, 2016
Channel: Stan McGahey
Date: 2016-02-08

URL: https://youtu.be/7m30KbWF7-M

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

It’s by G. K. Chesterton, an English writer, poet, philosopher, and art and literary critic. He lived from 1874 to 1936.

”The traveler sees what he sees; the tourist sees what he has come to see.”

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

“This may be true, but hold on for just a second before you decide who’s going to see the most.  I prefer independent traveling in most situations, but I also worked in the tour business for ten years, and sometimes taking a tour makes more sense.  People complain that a tour doesn’t give them enough time each place and they’re herded around too much.  But that’s because they picked the wrong tour.  A good tour budgets your time, money, and energy for you.  Pick the right one, and you’ll make sure to see what you came to see and still have free time to explore on your own.”

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.