Traveling is exciting and desirable when your destination and the route leading to it is well known to you.
Iba Oluyole’s Statue at Beere, Ibadan, Nigeria.
Whether you are driving or being driven, you can take your time to gaze on the beautiful (and sometimes strange) arrays of structures and artifactual elements that adorns the road side.
Conversly, the garnered bubble of amusements will encounter pokes of fright and tedium when you get to an assumed known point on your route, only to discover you are far away from the actual place. Recounting the time, fuel and energy wasted, can ruin the overall fun even if the remaining part of the journey goes well.
Google map -a tool that makes the difference between a frustrating journey and a delightful journey- has created a platform for interested participants to submit accurate description and directions to make travel fun all the way for people who need guidance to their destination. I count it a privilege that I can make unknown places known and also give detailed descriptions that will help individuals define their choices.
I remember instances when I leave a place forgetting to pin the location or take pictures. I get pained and reschedule another visit where possible or switch my map to satellite view where I deploy skills acquired in High School Geography
towards locating my desired point to register the details at my disposal.
Having gone this far, I can be certain at this point that retirement from being “a guide to the world” is not in view.