"Pretty amazing place, the Internet," Google Earth edition.
Jimmy and I have spent hours quite some time today doodling around with Google Earth since we've both been awake for hours already. He showed me Iceland, where he lived around age seven, Adak Island in Alaska, where he lived as a teenager, and even managed to find something on the island of Guam, where he lived for two years as a pre-teen, that he had begun to think he must have imagined: it turns out it's called The Spanish Steps. That was pretty exciting, because he'd told me about this amazing little private lagoon before, and then here were pictures of it, exactly as he remembered! Turns out that it's actually something of a tourist destination, but he never saw anyone else in all the times he went there as a kid. And he showed me exactly where his mom lives on Key West, the lighthouse, and the southernmost point in the United States. We looked up Islamorada, where the 2008 HGTV Dream House is located, and Key Largo. Hi, Zettie!
Eventually, he got sleepy and went to take a nap. I continued to fool around with it. I found pictures taken along the Kurfurstendamm, "the Champs-Elysee of Berlin," where I stayed when I visited that city. I found pictures of Diamond Valley Lake and Lake Skinner, where my work is centered. You can see the Visitor's Center, the Wadsworth pumphouse, the forebay, even our various guard shacks. I looked along the route we took returning from visiting his sister on Whidbey Island near Seattle, all the way down the coast, where we managed with a lot of luck to find the house he lived in at about 9-years-old, in Fortuna, CA. I looked at Woodland Hills, (Hi, J+B!), down the coast to Long Beach, Dana Point, and my dear old San Clemente, where Jimmy and I spent my 28th birthday. Then Oceanside, then inland to my hometown, Fallbrook.
To my mild surprise, there aren't but a couple of photos available from that area. Makes me want to get my camera and go take pictures of everything ... although now, after the fires, probably isn't the most flattering time to capture the place. Well, things are greening up around here pretty well, with all the rain we've been having, and this summer it will probably be a lot more like its old self. Maybe then?
Anyway, it's been great fun. I really have been in an excellent mood this weekend, even though I had some unpleasantly vivid nightmares last night and I am still coughing. I've played the one hour trial version of two silly Yahoo! games, and I still have one more awaiting my pleasure. And we're supposed to go to some friend's house to eat, drink, see people I never see anymore watch the Superbowl. Sounds pretty good, doesn't it? *happy sigh*
Eventually, he got sleepy and went to take a nap. I continued to fool around with it. I found pictures taken along the Kurfurstendamm, "the Champs-Elysee of Berlin," where I stayed when I visited that city. I found pictures of Diamond Valley Lake and Lake Skinner, where my work is centered. You can see the Visitor's Center, the Wadsworth pumphouse, the forebay, even our various guard shacks. I looked along the route we took returning from visiting his sister on Whidbey Island near Seattle, all the way down the coast, where we managed with a lot of luck to find the house he lived in at about 9-years-old, in Fortuna, CA. I looked at Woodland Hills, (Hi, J+B!), down the coast to Long Beach, Dana Point, and my dear old San Clemente, where Jimmy and I spent my 28th birthday. Then Oceanside, then inland to my hometown, Fallbrook.
To my mild surprise, there aren't but a couple of photos available from that area. Makes me want to get my camera and go take pictures of everything ... although now, after the fires, probably isn't the most flattering time to capture the place. Well, things are greening up around here pretty well, with all the rain we've been having, and this summer it will probably be a lot more like its old self. Maybe then?
Anyway, it's been great fun. I really have been in an excellent mood this weekend, even though I had some unpleasantly vivid nightmares last night and I am still coughing. I've played the one hour trial version of two silly Yahoo! games, and I still have one more awaiting my pleasure. And we're supposed to go to some friend's house to eat, drink, see people I never see anymore watch the Superbowl. Sounds pretty good, doesn't it? *happy sigh*