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Since becoming a computer owner, I have never been so excited since becoming a helium member and now experiencing Google Earth. This morning I put a search in the Helium search box for "My experiences with Google earth." I downloaded Google earth about a month ago and have been in awe ever since. This week I also updated my Google Earth, the new items makes the whole experience mind blowing with what you can do. Everything from night vision to climbing mountains. Daylight hours is a whole new experience, especially when you can watch street scapes anywhere in the world.

I wish I had Google earth last September when my eldest daughter went overseas last year with her husband. Early next year my youngest daughter and her husband are going to America on holidays, this time I will definitely be following their footsteps across the globe and their plane trips around America. Over the past month I have found that I could have followed their planes across the world and walked in their footsteps. Growing up as we did "Baby-boomers," there was a huge map of the world either on the wall of the bedroom or on the top of a desk. Now you can track planes all over the world, I feel like a kid again instead of a fifty five year old woman.

The Discovery Channel has a a section in Google Earth where you can watch the sunrise over the earth. I thought this was amazing, I have seen some morning sunrises in my time around "South Australia," and in my travels almost 35 years ago during my travels around New Zealand. Watching the sunrise around the globe on Google Earth is amazing. The new 3d effects and the 360o degree photos on google earth has really enhanced google earth.

The other section I found that amazed me, literally blew me away was "Historical Maps," instead of looking through books it is amazing to be able to find the maps on Google Earth. Tracing the footsteps through the actual globe, "Unreal!" Walking in our explorers footsteps as they discovered the world has been an amazing experience.

Learning how to use Google Earth, has been an exciting experience for me, throughout my life I have always had a dream of traveling the globe. This last month I have been traveling the globe at the click of the mouse, to click on Digital Globe and all of a sudden you mountains popping up over the section you are looking at, to some one like me it is amazing!.

In the world of today, you can watch the Satellites, travel the globe, the International Space Station move around the globe. There is so much more on Google Earth that I have to work out yet, I know that my dream of traveling can be completed partly by Google Earth. Google Earth has made inroads into experiencing the world on different levels with new advances in technology every day and now exploration with Google Earth under the sea.

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