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In reply to the discussion: I frickin LOVE Google "Street View" [View all]Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,752 posts)39. I was just in Sumatra! Dont know why, but thats one place Ive been enamored of ever since
5th grade when I would daydream in class and look at the map and try to imagine what the very remotest places would be like. But actually I never really knew much about it until I googled it the other day on google maps and I guess I shouldnt have been surprised that there were roads and towns and such.... not totally jungle. The street view I found myself in was not a road, but a walking trail along a beach and blue ocean and green jungle clad mountains....underneath a brilliant blue sky and puffy white clouds. I want to go there!
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I did the same. The scary woods I would walk through sometimes... are so dinky!
Demovictory9
Dec 2018
#24
Never thought to use it this way, thanks. I usually look suspiciously at
Eliot Rosewater
Dec 2018
#28
have been using maps and street view but did not know about the yellow man, very helpful, thanks
Eliot Rosewater
Dec 2018
#35
Well it is easier now if I START at google maps, I was starting at google and typing in an
Eliot Rosewater
Dec 2018
#37
Several years ago, I took a "Street View" stroll down Lombard Street in San Francisco!
KCDebbie
Dec 2018
#32
I was just in Sumatra! Dont know why, but thats one place Ive been enamored of ever since
Kashkakat v.2.0
Dec 2018
#39
I was fortunate that my father had a job the required him to take posts overseas.
A HERETIC I AM
Dec 2018
#40