WHOA, this week you have the least money in your bank account that you’ve ever had. You can literally only afford three things at the 99¢ Store.
That trip you’d been thinking about is so far down the horizon, you can barely make it out.
To top that off, your passport expired three months ago, you have a whopping credit card bill, and you need to pay a parking ticket. You are eternally trapped here, but through the power of The Internet you can make a fake escape.
Google Street View is like a momentary free vacation (if you go full screen). You can even explore regions that’d be inaccessible even if you did have some money (but aren’t a member of the 1%.) Street View recently added hard-to-reach destinations you can use to simulate hiking Everest, exploring Arctic territory, and adventuring through the radiation-laced streets of Fukushima.
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Antarctica: See those tuxedo birds up close.
Great Barrier Reef, Australia: The sea turtles are everywhere, and you can still breathe oxygen.
See the Great Barrier Reef here >
Fukushima, Japan: Discover the post-nuclear-meltdown abandoned towns in northern Japan while avoiding radiation.
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