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I also like to watch those videos of people just going out for walks in their town but I like being able to choose where to go in streetview.

With how expensive it is to actually go to other countries this is my best bet for cultural enrichment. I've done cities in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Oceania.

And once in a while I get to see something neat that I wouldn't've seen on youtube or actually going there. Such as the time I went to a random shopping plaza in miami and turned down an alley to find that alley hadn't been recorded since 2008 so I got to see a few pictures of that shopping center under construction.

The hardest part of this is doing my best to ignore the "God I wish I lived there" thoughts.

I'm gonna go explore Bhutan now.

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[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It is more fun to follow legitimate mining prospectors, learn the actual gritty geology of an area, and both mines and urban explorers in abandoned places that tell the stories behind each location while presenting what they see free from hype, emotions, or nonsense.

Those were major binges for me during the lows of my first few years of disability. I can't travel any more, or do a great many things. It made me really shift how I view travel anyways. I'm usually an off-the-beaten-path type person, but even with that mindset, I don't know all the local tourist stuff in my region either. Travel is often so superficial and consumer oriented no matter how obscure one tries to plan. A lot of the motivation amounts to nothing more than abstract flag planting.

However, one can scratch the itch to digitally explore some cave of wonders and imagine stumbling upon a collapsed wall of riches around the next bend, or simply marvel at the engineering and what life was like across the last centuries or even millennia in long abandoned mines.

If you ever stared at rock cuts on the side of a highway and wondered of deep time, explore with someone like Nick Zentner and discover the geology of the north western United States to decide if you are into edgy science of Baja-BC or of the Rocky Mountains old guard.

Anyways, I moved on to other stuff mostly since then. I will still watch Nick when he posts his polished auditorium talks.

This is just one way to be a cheap miser, or cope with circumstances - whatever they may be, or maybe break the money burner cycle.

[–] KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

That does sound cool.