Travelogue of An Armchair Traveller: About Me

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 am a retired Chief Engineer and an Alumni of India's famous Engineering institution, University of Roorkee (Now Indian Institute of India, Roorkee).

Post retirement I got interested in Google Earth and Google Maps and joined the (now defunct) Google Earth Community (GEC), where I had made more than Five thousand posts under pseudonym of CuriousJM. Google Earth Community was subsequently closed by Google and now I am a member and a moderator of its unofficial successor Google Earth Community Forums. I am also an Eight Star Local Guide of Google Maps.

I also write few blogs; all linked to my interest in Google Earth. My most popular blog is Travelogue of An Armchair Traveller. It is about the lesser known but beautiful, wonderful, unique and sometimes bizarre places around the world.

Recognising my interest in Google Earth, on the occasion of one Billion downloads of Google Earth, they (Google) had created a web site - One World Many Stories, wherein they have devoted a special page to my work in GEC and in my blogs.