"Thoughtful Traveling" ~ January 22, 2016
Channel: Stan McGahey
Date: 2016-01-21

URL: https://youtu.be/qnuyUVGWvhk

Hello Again Thoughtful Travelers!  Welcome to today’s thought for January 22, 2016. 

It’s by Dame Freya Stark, a British explorer and author who lived from 1893 to 1993.  She traveled in remote areas of Turkey and the Middle East long before most Europeans, especially women, and wrote two dozen books describing her adventures.

 “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”

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

“This quote is for adventurous travelers who love the thrill of discovery.  No need to be surrounded by a group of other travelers, they will only slow you down. The entire day is at your command, and everything is new.  It will be an exhilarating day of meeting people, finding local places to eat, visiting the well-known sights, and wandering through the streets and neighborhoods to discover their true sense of place and spirit. This is a day of personal growth and enrichment in the way that only foreign travel can provide.”

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.