- Wandering from place to place
- Unsettled
Who needs to be itinerant when there's Google Earth? With a click or two, you're in Sydney. Another click, the streets of New York. Another, outside the local country store. It's possible to be unsettled and yet settled - to travel the world without leaving the comforts of your desk.
Of course, for those truly born with wanderlust, Google Earth is a tease. The real journey is packing your bags, booking a flight, and feeling the dirt of a foreign land between your toes. It's about the smell of the Sydney Opera House; the dampness of a Broadway while you wait for cheap tickets to a shot. It's about walking into the country store and leaving with a bag full of penny candies and the latest gossip about Mr. Higgins down the road.
It's the experience of travel that makes being itinerant worthwhile. But, for now, Google Earth is a looking glass into the world and a fairly good one, at that.
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