"Thoughtful Traveling ~ February 15, 2016
Channel: Stan McGahey
Date: 2016-02-11

URL: https://youtu.be/pNdo8HUDg1s

Hello Again Thoughtful Travelers!  Welcome to today’s thought for 
February 15, 2016. 

It’s by James Michener, an American novelist and world traveler who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for his book, Tales of the South Pacific.  Michener lived from 1907 to 1997.

“I think young people ought to seek that experience that is going to knock them off center.”

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

“Michener wants young people to be challenged.  He wants them to go way outside their comfort zone.  He wants them to suffer, not in agony, but in significant discomfort.  How else will they refocus their lives after being cuddled by their family since day one, by kindly professors while in college, and by all their friends back home?  He’s saying it’s time for a “gut check”, that time when suddenly things aren’t going so well and so predictable.  Travel does that.  It’s disruptive, it makes them use their initiative, and it encourages personal growth, accountability, and maturity.”

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