"Thoughtful Traveling" ~ March 17, 2016
Channel: Stan McGahey
Date: 2016-03-16

URL:  https://youtu.be/8YM0AAm1NjI

Hello Again Thoughtful Travelers!  Welcome to today’s thought for March 17, 2016. 

It’s by George Bernard Shaw, the Irish playwright who was awarded the 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature and the 1939 Oscar for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay, making him the only person ever to receive both awards.  He lived from 1856 to 1950.

“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.”

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

“I’m sure Shaw said this long before the phrase ‘comfort zone’ was coined, but he definitely wanted to step outside his when he went abroad. He wanted to feel for at least a short period of time what is was like to be a local.  He was seeking authenticity.  Experiencing other cultures can be artificial - just packaged for tourist consumption - or superficial, because unless you live there for a while, it’s hard to experience it in any great detail.  But by embracing the local customs and lifestyle, you can at least get a firsthand taste of what makes the people different and special, and that’s a major benefit of traveling.”

Now…here’s the list of all the sources quoted in March.  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!

March 1-31, 2016 (entries listed by date and source):
01 Anais Nin
02 Aldous Huxley
03 Margaret Mead
04 Mark Twain
05 Mason Cooley
06 Arnold Bennet
07 Confucius
08 Kenneth Grahame
09 Clive Jones
10 (Unknown)
11 Douglas Adams
12 Jack Kerouac
13 Sir Walter Scott
14 Jack London
15 (Roman Expression)
16 Walt Disney
17 George Bernard Shaw
18  William Bartram
19 Robert Jenkins
20 John B. Priestly
21 William Shakespeare
22 Thomas Haynes Bayly
23 Pubilius Syrus
24 Dr. Maya Angelou
25 Arthur Schopenhauer
26 Mario Batali
27 Pope John Paul II
28 Benjamin Franklin
29 Samuel Johnson
30 Reverend Purlie V. Judson
31 Antoine de Saint Exupery

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.