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Google earth vacations are a new trend. Advantages: You can watch a certain viewpoint for as long as you want, and you can go anywhere you want, with no traffic or unfamiliar roads, and all with no cost!
Disadvantages: Some of the photos are poor, hard to see, blurry, hazy, dark, or simply out of focus. I hope Google Earth goes back and re-shoots these problem areas. Another disadvantage: The simple fact you are NOT there. In the end, that is most important.
Glad to see I'm not the only map nerd here. I have been doing this since a very young age as well. I buy an atlas every three years. I don't want to be too out of date.
Thanks for the comments..I'm relaxing at themoment with my road atlas. Someone said there were 99 counties in iowa,so I wanted to see..wow, Iowa does have a lot of counties.
I looked at an old IL Tollway map. It is interesting to see, roads were extended, interchanges added and toll collections revised. Most telling is that most toll plazas were attended, now few are. Golf courses were shown on the old map.
I love to relax and look at my atlas. Find new places on the maps and study them. Does anyone else like to do this?
I do this very same thing. I'll do this with a road atlas to look at places i've been or places I will be going to. I also love to look at world maps to see all the countries I've visited. I love it...
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