I love when Google Maps does this kind of thing. My morning productivity is fixing to drop infinitely.
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Machu Picchu
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5-star thread. That's an awesome panoramic.
Google Maps is a lot of fun for anybody whose intellectual curiosity includes geography. Sometimes I like to drop the little map guy in some random locale and then just "drive around" to get a feel for the place: the people, the architecture, the vegetation, etc. Iceland, southeast Asia, and New Zealand are all fun.
I spent about an hour last weekend looking through pictures of Athabasca Sand Dunes Provincial Park. You can only get still shots, not panoramics, but it's a pretty cool place considering it's a mass of sand not that far from the Arctic Circle. I started wondering whether you could paddle from the headwaters near Edmonton all the way to the park. I think it can be done, but I don't know how you'd get your boat back out since the only other way in/out is by seaplane.
Google Maps is a lot of fun for anybody whose intellectual curiosity includes geography. Sometimes I like to drop the little map guy in some random locale and then just "drive around" to get a feel for the place: the people, the architecture, the vegetation, etc. Iceland, southeast Asia, and New Zealand are all fun.
I spent about an hour last weekend looking through pictures of Athabasca Sand Dunes Provincial Park. You can only get still shots, not panoramics, but it's a pretty cool place considering it's a mass of sand not that far from the Arctic Circle. I started wondering whether you could paddle from the headwaters near Edmonton all the way to the park. I think it can be done, but I don't know how you'd get your boat back out since the only other way in/out is by seaplane.
You're welcome for brightening y'alls day. I'm just a giver. Call me the OOTB Black Santa, just minus the sanctions 
Amazing! Gotta wonder how the Incas did this work without writing stuff down, no apparent math skills, no knowlege of the wheel... Yet, they we able to construction this magnificent complex using heavy granite stones for construction, extremely hard to cut even with today's technology, yet no tools found on-site. It has a massive irrigation and plumbing system that is still operational today - water runs through huge stone that have aqueducts carved inside them! They fashioned observatories for astronomical observation. This place has one of the last seasonal sundials remaining in Peru - the Spanish destroyed all the others because they considered it pagan...
I truly believe the ancients (and not-so-ancients) knew more than we will ever be able to "prove" they knew. I love watching that Ancient Aliens show for many reasons, but one big reason is because it highlights tons of amazing ancient architecture....stuff I've never heard about, not just the well-known stuff like the pyramids.
It's mind-blowing the feats ancient peoples accomplished. History is so cool.
Oh, yeah, it's really cool stuff! These structures were built without mud or plaster or concrete like we would today or most other ancient cultures used. These stones are so perfectly matched to one another that you can't fit a knife between the stones... in most places, you can't even slid a piece of paper between the stones!!!
easy to build.
the really hard part was getting the little google car up there.
the incas say that the ancients were much smarter than people today.
so we may be devolving instead of evolving.
the really hard part was getting the little google car up there.
the incas say that the ancients were much smarter than people today.
so we may be devolving instead of evolving.
We are going to Machu Picchu in summer of 2018 and going to backpack in- can't wait for that trip.
Sweet, I gotta sit through a training class at work today, and I've found the perfect thing to help get me through that. Thanks!
That's awesome. When did you become such a globetrotter?*
*First person to post a Harlem Globetrotters pic gets shot it the face.
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