"Thoughtful Traveling" ~ January 9, 2016
Channel: Stan McGahey
Date: 2016-01-07

URL: https://youtu.be/o95NYKwuBB0

Greetings Thoughtful Travelers!  Welcome to today’s thought for January 9, 2016.

It’s from Albert Einstein, the brilliant scientist and mathematician who gave us E = MC squared.  Einstein was born in Germany in 1879.  He became a Swiss citizen in 1901 and an American citizen in 1940.  Einstein died in Princeton, NJ, in 1955.

“I love to travel, but I hate to arrive.”

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

“This is one of the many quotes about the journey part of the travel experience.  Until modern times, the journey was often the major part of the entire trip.  Nowadays, we hop on a plane, take a nap, read a magazine, and get off on another continent.  But the journey can still be full of great promise and the fun of being on the go.  We’ve read the glossy brochures, and watched the promotional videos.  We’re primed and ready.  And, that can sometimes make arrival the hard part, because, unfortunately, our experiences at the destination are not always able to match our over-hyped expectations of it.”

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.