"Thoughtful Traveling" ~ March 5, 2016
Channel: Stan McGahey
Date: 2016-03-04

URL: https://youtu.be/AneWFjr8G6g

Hello Again Thoughtful Travelers!  Welcome to today’s thought for March 5, 2016. 

It’s by Mason Cooley, an American literature professor and aphorist.  He lived from 1927 to 2002.

“Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.”

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

“My first overseas trip was to a beautiful Southeast Asian country as a young soldier.  We were told to remember that we were guests, even though some of the locals were shooting at us!  Yes, we are the foreigners.  We have to gain entrance to other countries via our passport, and possibly a visa also.  Looking at it from the other end, I always told my students that a country is like a house.  You set the house rules, admit those you want to visit, and if they misbehave or just aren’t much fun, throw them out or don’t invite them again.“

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

March 1-31, 2016 (entries listed by date and source):
01 Anais Nin
02 Aldous Huxley
03 Margaret Mead
04 Mark Twain
05 Mason Cooley
06 Arnold Bennet
07 Confucius
08 Kenneth Grahame
09 Clive Jones
10 (Unknown)
11 Douglas Adams
12 Jack Kerouac
13 Sir Walter Scott
14 Jack London
15 (Roman Expression)
16 Walt Disney
17 George Bernard Shaw
18  William Bartram
19 Robert Jenkins
20 John B. Priestly
21 William Shakespeare
22 Thomas Haynes Bayly
23 Pubilius Syrus
24 Dr. Maya Angelou
25 Arthur Schopenhauer
26 Mario Batali
27 Pope John Paul II
28 Benjamin Franklin
29 Samuel Johnson
30 Reverend Purlie V. Judson
31 Antoine de Saint Exupery

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.