Thoughtful Traveling   May 10   Rick Steves
Channel: Stan McGahey
Date: 2019-05-06

Greetings Thoughtful Travelers!  Welcome to today’s thought for May 10th!  It’s by Rick Steves, the American tour operator, authority on European travel, guidebook writer, lecturer, and radio and TV host.  He was born in 1955.
“When we return home, we can put what we’ve learned – our newly-acquired perspective – to work as citizens of a great nation  confronted with unprecedented challenges.  And when we do that, we make travel a political act.”
So what are your thoughts on today’s quote? Here’s mine.  
“Rick Steves believed in this thought so much he wrote an excellent book about it and named it ‘Travel as a Political Act’.  I  made it a required book in one of my tourism courses.  Travel creates a two-way street for learning.  We learn from others when we visit them, and they also learn from us during our visit.  Unless we think we already have all the answers, then we can probably put some of what we’ve learned to good use.  That could be something small on a personal level, or something much larger on a national level.  So, let’s travel and  learn, and use that knowledge for everyone’s  benefit.”
Now…here’s the list of all the sources quoted in May.  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!  Dr. Stan McGahey