Using my travel experiences to help others

Being an active Local Guide on Google Maps, I love sharing my experiences and more importantly any advice that I can give to help others.

As an avid traveler, I tend to see things with a different point of view. I’ll ask myself “what feedback can I provide others in order to help them with their journey?”. After all, Google Maps was built to help people find their destination, so what better way to give back by helping them with their decision on where to go based on valuable feedback by Local Guides, such as myself.

What started as a ridiculous amount of corporate travel quickly transformed into a passion for travel! While travelling to new destinations, I found myself relying heavily on Google Maps to scope out the best spots to visit. I then realized that I can also contribute to the community and give back by helping others.

Besides travelling to exotic destinations, I also enjoy hitting the road with my family and explore Canada, on the road less traveled. Here is a picture I took while stopping for a charge out in eastern Quebec. The beauty speaks for itself.

I love seeing my photo view count on Google Maps! I’m well over 200k now and growing.

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Hi @DannyElisha ,

Welcome to Connect!

Thank you for your contributions via Google Maps! Maybe this is the post with which you are applying for Connect Live 2019 or perhaps you’ve already applied for it. In this post you can find everything you need to know about writing a post for your Connect Live 2019 application. If you think you are missing some of the points mentioned, you can always edit the post and add them.

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Thanks for the pointers Alexa! I’ll start working on enhancing my post to reflect more on how the link you provided.

Hi @DannyElisha ,

Just to let you know that I’ve moved your post out of the spam and it is now visible publicly. Some posts are being automatically marked as spam, apologies for that. You can visit this article to learn more - Why was my Connect post marked as spam?