"Thoughtful Traveling" ~ January 24, 2016
Channel: Stan McGahey
Date: 2016-01-22

URL: https://youtu.be/EEw3dEwahJM

Hello Again Thoughtful Travelers!  Welcome to today’s thought for January 24, 2016. 

It’s by Nils Kjaer, a Norwegian playwright, essayist, and critic.  He lived from 1870 to 1924.

“He who strays discovers new paths.”

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

“This is common sense at its best.  But perhaps it does need to be stated because so many people just follow the well-trodden path and don’t even consider the many other options available to them. 
Modern travelers are bombarded by advertisements and promotions to visit the major sights and tourist traps that dot the world.  So most do just that.  It’s simpler, easier, and safer.  But if the thrill of discovering your own favorite places and the desire to be treated as a person rather than as a tourist with dollar signs in your eyes intrigues you, maybe it’s time to stray a bit.”

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

January 1-31, 2016 (entries listed by date and source):
01 Seneca the Younger 
02 Chinese Proverb
03 Democritus
04 Agnes Repplier
05 Paul Theroux
06 Ralph Waldo Emerson
07 Mark Twain
08 Zhuang Zhou
09 Albert Einstein
10 William Shakespeare
11 Ban Ki-moon
12 Turkish Proverb
13 Gertrude Stein
14 (Advertisement)
15 Carl Sandburg
16 Stan McGahey
17 Buddha
18 Michael Palin
19 Shunryu Suzuki
20 Ernest Hemingway
21 Kabir
22 Freya Stark
23 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
24 Nils Kjaer
25 Ed Buryn
26 (Unknown)
27 Henry David Thoreau
28 Jan Myrdal
29 Louis L’Amour
30 William Hazlitt
31 Roy Goodman

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.