"Thoughtful Traveling" ~ July 29 (Ed Buryn)
Channel: Stan McGahey
Date: 2017-07-27

Greetings Thoughtful Travelers!  Welcome to today’s thought for July 29th!

It’s by Ed Buryn, an American poet, philosopher, photographer, and author of several “Vagabonding” guidebooks.  He was born in 1934. 

“Traveling is not so much an action, as an enlightened state of consciousness, opening you to fresh experience, to fresh looks at the world and yourself in it.”

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

“If traveling doesn’t turn you on emotionally and intellectually, you’re probably wasting your time.  If you’re in a strange land, but don’t find it fascinating, then what are you doing there?  Where is your curiosity?  Your sense of wonder?  Ed Buryn was a vagabond all over Europe and North Africa when backpackers started coming in droves, using youth fares to cross the Atlantic and their wits to keep them going for weeks and months at a time.  The thrill was in the challenges and discoveries that changed their lives forever.”

Now…here’s the list of all the sources quoted in July. I hope you’ll stop by each day to enjoy all the interesting and insightful things they have to say.  Thanks, and see you tomorrow!