The beaten path has become overly prevalent. Climb Mt. Sinai and one is welcomed with an ice-cold Schweppes of your choice. Walk the jungle of Panajachel and one finds a cabin with an old lady living with a little girl collecting avocados and other rare exotic fruits which I cannot remember the names of. Venture into the forest in Bavaria and find random hunter cabins and sporadic farms and towns where you thought none could exist.
Create your own path, always. Google Guides helps you come up with a new way to go through every beaten path, creating your own tracks and your own history in the process. No one’s way is the same as the other’s. At least with Google Maps and Google Guides one can get a general feel of the place before starting one’s own shenanigans where ever one might go.
The spirit of exploration lives on with this fascinating new program and community. Just when one thought all roads were beaten, one can still give that 2-star place a visit to make up one’s own mind. Interesting YouTube videos emerge with fantastically quirky moments, comparing experiences with a documentary feel.
Make your own road.
PS:
Myself: German-Egyptian bred in Egypt. Freelance Media professional and student of anything IT. Have seen enough of the world to say that I’ve circled it already, although never crossed the Pacific. Which may still happen some day. Other than that I am quite satisfied with my travels. I do enjoy completing my daily step counts in a new direction every other day. Discovering little things in the process that I can share on Google Maps/Guides/Connect. For example discovering a kicka$$ artist in the street who only goes out to draw portraits on the street for two hours an evening. After asking his permission I made sure you’ll find him listed with phone number, address and opening times with the exact piece of sidewalk that he uses to create his marvelous pieces of art. Artisans and special service individuals who open shacks, shops and stands on sidewalks are also now easy to find thanks to dedicated Google Guides.
Thank you all for doing what you do.
My best wishes and regards to all from Cairo, Egypt.
Emanuel Koydl