"Thoughtful Traveling" ~ January 15, 2016
Channel: Stan McGahey
Date: 2016-02-01

URL: https://youtu.be/xOFwX1YZuLE

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

It’s by Carl Sandburg, an American poet, writer, and folk singer, who won three Pulitzer Prizes and a Grammy.  Carl Sandburg lived from 1878 to 1967.  He was born in Galesburg, IL, just like me!

“I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.”

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

“If there was a continuum with the idea that people should have definite plans for their travels at one end and the idea of just letting things happen as they may at the other end, there would probably be an equal number of travel quotes at each end because there’s merit in both extremes.  One of my favorite things about travel; however, is the freedom it brings.  No commitments, just hit the open road and explore.  Que sera, sera!  Carl Sandburg was a hobo in his teenage years, and I guess it stayed with him.  And, why not, we all need to be a free spirit once in a while.”

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.