"Thoughtful Traveling" ~ January 29, 2016
Channel: Stan McGahey
Date: 2016-01-26

URL: https://youtu.be/NdNHkA71D2U

Hello Again Thoughtful Travelers!  Welcome to today’s thought for January 29, 2016. 

It’s by Louis L’Amour, an American author of dozen of novels about the Old West, many of which were made into movies.  Louis L’Amour lived from 1908 to 1980.

 “The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail.  Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.”

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

“I think this quote is a metaphor for life, since life is a journey, and if you don’t ‘stop and smell the roses’ once in a while, your life is probably not very well spent.  The same goes for getting the most out of your travels.  They aren’t just a series of incredible sights and activities.  They also include the more mundane pursuits of getting from point A to point B, sometimes across an ocean and sometimes just across a city, and they include all the places you ate and slept along the way.  Nonetheless, they are all part of your travel experiences.  So enjoy them and make them an important part of your travel memories too.”

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.