"Thoughtful Traveling" ~ January 6, 2016
Channel: Stan McGahey
Date: 2016-01-06

URL: https://youtu.be/Iy3Ev9lywCY

Hello Thoughtful Travelers! Welcome to today’s thought for January 6, 2016.

Today’s thought is by Ralph Waldo Emerson, who lived from 1803 to 1882.  Emerson was an American poet and a leader of the Transcendentalist movement.

““Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

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

“Emerson wants you to get off-the-beaten path and create your own travel experience.  He’s telling you to use your curiosity and instincts to enjoy the serendipity of travel. He’s saying, “Why follow the crowd?”  There are many places to explore and many activities to enjoy, so go find your own special destination.  He even wrote this before tourist traps and hucksters were waiting for you at every major gateway and well-known destination. Of course, he was also probably giving you advice on how to live your life, to seek your own destiny and be a shining new example to everyone else.”

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.