"Thoughtful Traveling" ~ January 13, 2016
Channel: Stan McGahey
Date: 2016-01-13

URL: https://youtu.be/qPTCPjlyb5Y

Hello Again Thoughtful Travelers! Welcome to today’s thought for January 13, 2016. 

It’s from Gertrude Stein who lived from 1874 to 1946.  Stein was an American literary expat who moved to Paris in 1903 and helped a young Ernest Hemingway develop his writing career there in the 1920s.

“When you get there, there isn't any there there.”

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

“This is one of the more mysterious travel quotes.  I think it refers to the importance of the journey since it is not very positive about the destination. Or, perhaps it’s saying that the destination is what you make of it, that the “there” that was promised to you only materializes when you help make it that way during your point in time.  Or, since Gertrude Stein is most famous for writing “A rose is a rose is a rose, and by any other name is still a rose”, she just likes to repeat herself.  And that’s why she says there isn’t any there there!”

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.