"Thoughtful Traveling" ~ January 18, 2016
Channel: Stan McGahey
Date: 2016-01-16

URL: https://youtu.be/D6C0ij3XVV8

Hello Again Thoughtful Travelers!  Welcome to today’s thought for January 18, 2016. 

It’s from Michael Palin, a British actor and travel writer who was born in 1943.  Michael Palin was an original member of the Monty Python comedy troupe.  He also writes travel narratives and creates videos that describe his travels to many amazing parts of the world.

 “Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.”                         

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

“I think the travel bug impacts young travelers the most, such as college students, young singles, and backpackers.  Its bite infects them with huge doses of freedom, independence, excitement, amazement, curiosity, romance, and restless yearnings.  When most young people finish a journey, their next thoughts are how and when they can hit the road again.  Nothing is as thrilling as discovering new places, new people, and new aspects of your character and abilities.  No wonder we don’t ever want that feeling to end!”

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.