Travelogue of An Armchair Traveller: 1 Jan 2010

Google Earth Community - Fun and Games

Google Earth Community Forum is full of information which ranges from, but not limited to; history, geography, nature, environment, architecture, military, transportation, beliefs, festivals, huge, unique, bizarre items, current happenings etc etc.

My favourite section in the Community is "Fun and Games" - in which members post riddles and puzzles on almost all subjects and generally give hints for searching and locating the relevant places and or events on Google Earth. I have made several hundred posts in this forum and must have solved about the same number, though several were beyond my grasp. Believe me it is not easy to solve these riddles - Finding the answer is 90% perspiration (research) and 10% inspiration but it is pure 100% joy and sense of exhilaration.

This forum provides a stimulus to my brain and keeps it active. I strongly recommend this for those who have time and penchant for solving puzzles, but a word of warning – it is highly addictive.

My travels around the World are not limited to Fun and Games only, however many of the places being covered in this travelogue were found as a result of my researches for making posts in Fun and Games or trying to solve the riddles given therein.

The Original Google Earth Community was frozen by Google in April 2015 and finally killed in April 2019. However the dedicated moderators of the defunct Original GEC created a new Board for the GEC enthusiasts and the new Community is known as "Google Earth Community Forums". This new community continues to function as the old GEC but is independent of google.com

I wish all my readers a very Happy New Year 2010.

It was this day a year ago that I started this blog and I am happy to say that within a span of one year there have been more than 60,000 visits to my travelogue from 177 countries. Words of praise and comments from my readers has been a source of encouragement to do better and with passage of time I have tried to improve my posts and make them more informative.

I also apologies to the Followers of my travelogue for not being very regular during the last couple of months. I assure my readers that this was a temporary phase and I hope to achieve again 5-6 posts every week.

In the end I would like to convey to all my readers and followers a big Thank You and wish them again a Very Happy and Joyful New Year 2010.

Please do keep visiting. I also look forward to more comments/suggestions from my readers.

All the best.

CuriousJM
jaymasood-at-yahoo-dot-com