Welcome to the Daily Quote – a podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm Andrew McGivern for November 22nd.
Today is Go For A Ride Day – celebrating the simple joy of movement and exploration.
This unofficial holiday encourages us to hop on whatever moves us – a bike, a car, a motorcycle, a horse, even a boat – and just go. No particular destination required. The point isn't where you end up, it's the experience of getting there.
The day has special significance in transportation history. On this date in 1904, the variable-speed motor was patented. In 1927, the snowmobile received its patent. And in 1977, the Concorde began regular commercial flights between New York and Paris.
But Go For A Ride Day isn't about speed or technology. It's about rediscovering what we knew as kids – that riding itself is the reward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson captured this perfectly when he wrote:
"It's not the destination, it's the journey."
Emerson understood that we're obsessed with arrivals. We rush through experiences trying to get to the next thing, the end goal, the final destination.
But what if the getting there is the point? The wind in your hair. The scenery passing by. The unexpected turn down a road you've never traveled. The conversation with whoever's riding along. These aren't delays before the real experience – they ARE the experience.
Go For A Ride Day invites us to stop treating travel as something to endure and start treating it as something to enjoy. Take the scenic route. Make an unnecessary stop. Get slightly lost. That's not wasting time – that's living it.
Today, go for a ride. Take the long way home from work. Bike through a neighborhood you've never explored. Drive with no destination. Walk a different route.
Notice what you've been missing by always rushing to arrive. The interesting houses. The changing leaves. The quirky stores. The way the light hits things at this time of day.
Remember Emerson's wisdom – the journey itself is the destination. So ride slowly. Look around. Enjoy the getting there.
That's going to do it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern signing off for now but I'll be back tomorrow. Same Pod time, same Pod Station - with another Daily Quote.