A Travel Reason to Love Google

If this image looks somewhat familiar to you, it's probably because you have used Google Maps, one of several excellent sites for getting driving directions from Point A to Point B.  These sites are not always perfect, but they are amazing examples if how dramatically the Internet has improved our lives in a very short time.

I am featuring this specific map, however, to make the point that Google is a corporate behemoth you've gotta love.  Go to Google Maps  and click on <Get Directions> at the top of the page.  Type in <New York, NY> in the first field and <Paris, France> in the second, and this is your resulting map.  Now here's the fun:  Check out the step-by-step directions that accompany the map.   Especially the step after reaching Boston's Long Wharf.  :-)

Enjoy, and thank goodness for Google.  Also thanks to Babs, who tipped me off to this Google gem.

Comments

[Ming the Merciless]

Thanks for a good laugh!!

Without giving away the "secret", I would like to say I am not that desperate to go to Paris, as much as I love the City of Lights.

[Ming the Merciless]

Thanks for a good laugh!!

Without giving away the "secret", I would like to say I am not that desperate to go to Paris, as much as I love the City of Lights.

[Harolo]

"3,800 mi (about 29 days 7 hours)"

[eliot]

It all look logical to me. All these sights give directions along reqularly used routes, they do not provide recommended conveyances. Since no othe conveyance was indicated they would lodgically assume swimming. You did not specific a plane or boat An then if they had information on the person that submitten they could have concluded that you walk on watter

[google mapquest driving directions]

Updated the map page to use Google maps. You can now link right to Google maps and enter your address for directions, zoom in and out, use the terrain setting or satellite setting.