"Thoughtful Traveling" ~ February 24, 2016
Channel: Stan McGahey
Date: 2016-02-17

URL: https://youtu.be/HXQkZu9oXuA

Hello Again Thoughtful Travelers!  Welcome to today’s thought for February 24, 2016. 

It’s by Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd president of the United States.  He lived from 1743-1826.

“Travel makes a person wiser but less happy.”

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

“Normally discussions about travelers center on the benefits we receive.  But travelers are exposed to many new experiences, some we enjoy, some we endure, and some we merely observe.  Since travel is a learning experience, it should make us wiser.  But what about less happy?  Perhaps Jefferson was referring to the idyllic and optimistic expectations that travelers often have prior to visiting strange places and cultures.  Upon arrival, and after looking beyond the destination’s happy façade, we recognize it has problem too.  There is no paradise on Earth, not even on tropical islands.”

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

February 1-29, 2016 (entries listed by date and source):
01 Rene Descartres
02 Yogi Berra
03 Dave Mathews Band
04 George Santayana
05 (African Proverb)
06  Daniel Boorstin
07 Michel de Montaigne
08 (Korean Proverb)
09 Helen Hayes
10 J. R. R. Tolkien
11 G. K. Chesterton
12 Lord Dunsany
13 (The Dhammapada)
14 Japanese Proverb)
15 James Michener
16 Oliver Goldsmith
17  (Unknown)
18  Hillaire Belloc
19 Kin Hubbard
20 Will Rogers
21 Isabelle Eberhardt
22 Socrates
23 Sri Sathva Baba
24 Thomas Jefferson
25 Charles Louis de Secondat
26 (Quran: Al-Hujurat/13)
27 William Least Heat Moon
28 Saint Augustin of Hippo
29 Samuel Butler

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.